Many people assume that, when we die, all of our "bio-thought" is extinguished. In other words, we will no longer have the desire for food, water, sex, physical comfort, etc. In a sense, both the Western and Eastern religions believe in a Nirvana-type state, even though the Westerners don't like to word it that way.
However, consider the fact that our minds remember the pleasures and pains of the biological aspect of their existence, and would probably still want the positive aspects them later on. Even once the soul has disincorporated from the physiological matrix through which it perceived the world, it would still remember. Let's face it, can't you imagine how good your favorite food tastes, even when you're full? Can't very old people remember how good sex was when they were young, even though they can't do it anymore? Once the mind grasps a pleasure or a pain, it remembers, and from there is goes beyond the physical.
When we die, is it really "Nirvana time, dude"?
2007-11-17
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