Death Comes To Us All

Written 08/05/22

Published 11/20/23

Consciousness can be thought of as a process which takes input states of experience, processes and analyzes the information for "negative" values, and produces an output array of decisions which result in experiences with expected positive changes of some negative values.

If I see a bear coming my way, it looks like a cute animal. Why should I be worried? If I am smart, I understand that in some of my expected outcomes, me + bear = dead me + bear. This state is negative. I decide to avoid the bear.

This brings up an interesting point. Why is being dead negative? If you are dead, there are no negative values within your experience, because your experience no longer manifests any values. This is based upon two observations.

The first observation is that there is a relationship between conscious experience and keeping oneself alive. The relationship is that if you are not alive, you have no experience.

The second observation is that conscious experience is fundamentally positive enough to outweigh the negative. This observation is an opinion. If you do not hold this opinion, the ideal course of action would be to immediately die. Why is this?

Because within this entire situation, the desired outcome is to reduce negative values. Death reduces all negative values. It also happens to reduce all positive values, but this is essentially irrelevant when considering the goal of reducing negative values.