KARL JASPERS FORUM

SHORT NOTE 87 (to N86, Bone)

LIFE AFTER DEATH
by Serge Patlavskiy
17 January 2007, posted 20 January 2007

[Hugh Bone] writes:

*4) There is no convincing evidence of the "being" of the dead.*

*5)"Life after death" may be a "fact" for believers. Religion does not require evidence, only belief.*

[S.P.] The irony is that as the existence of the life after death, so the absence of the life after death -- both are ?facts? for believers. I mean that there is no convincing evidence of the absence of the ?being? of the dead. For example, there is a theory that treats a living organism as a complex self-organizing system which reduces its entropy through 1) processing and conceptualization of information, 2) consuming food, and 3) taking part in energetic interactions. Then, the clinically dead organism is the one which cannot reduce its entropy through the second and the third ways. But, what about the first way of entropy reduction, and can this ability be sustained after physiological death ? I suspect that everything is not so simple here.

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Serge Patlavskiy