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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. (x-post from r/awesome) (i.imgur.com)

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[–]lolsail 53 points54 points ago

I'm a physicist, take it from me you don't. They're not all popularizers of science that can package science into song and verse, and most of them are very bad at public speaking.

Bad idea. :)

[–]Yohfay 17 points18 points ago

As always, there is a relevant XKCD

[–]anossov 10 points11 points ago

And being less orderly is not enough to be sad?

[–]DarthChocolate 3 points4 points ago

You've got a lot more options that way at least. Part of you could end up on another planet some day maybe.

[–]Kihtra 1 point2 points ago

This gave me goosebumps.

[–]blazingscience 6 points7 points ago

No. This is wrong. "You" are not a collection of particles. You are a result of the way those particles behave; a complex chemical reaction. Once that reaction stops, you will cease to exist. The body that remains is no longer you. It's just a lump of bio matter. When you die, you're body is no more "you" then the hair your barber sweeps up or your fingernail clippings.

[–]wodahSShadow -1 points0 points ago

Interesting, we have body reactions that keep stopping and restarting often, are you less you when that happens?

[–]blazingscience 0 points1 point ago

No? I'm not the body. I'm the sentience that results from certain reactions within it. If you cut off my arm, I'm still me.

If you gave me a concussion and I lost a significant portion of my memories and personality, then it might be fair to say that I'm less "me".

[–]wodahSShadow 0 points1 point ago

How much cutting would it take to make you less you? You are your body, that's all we are. You are not just a brain.

[–]blazingscience 0 points1 point ago

The point where the mind starts to be permanently destroyed, I guess.

Surely you won't argue that you still exist after biological death because the particles that made up your body still exist?

[–]xinlo 0 points1 point ago

This is the correct answer, in my mind. Your consciousness is a pattern, an aggregate of the chemical processes that go on in your brain. That pattern can stop, and the brain can be intact, and you will be considered "dead."

[–]zkiller 9 points10 points ago

That was beautiful.

Haven't had such good frisson in a long time, thank you for posting.

[–]hijacked86 3 points4 points ago

Why am I dying before my parents? WTF

[–]learnd_astronomer 15 points16 points ago

I disagree with the premise here. I find no comfort in this bizarre materialistic mysticism.

You cannot reduce a human being to particles and energy. Yes, a person is made of those things, but from the specific combination of particles that makes up a person, something irreducibly complex emerges.

A human person is irreducibly complex.

[–]danielvutran 11 points12 points ago

Idk man, if we're irreducibly complex, it feels likes almost anything is "irreducibly complex". Since we're kinda at the bottom of the universal time chain. I find what made us is more complex than ourselves, and what made that is more complex / etc. So to me we're kind of at the bottom (or at least bottom half) of the complexity chain lol. If we're comparing to a galactic / universal scale that is. So in that scale I'd consider us rather simple to grasp, Just imo.

[–]Theon 8 points9 points ago

Why do you believe so? A human is fundamentally just a collection - or a combination - of particles in a certain state.

[–]richertai 5 points6 points ago

It is that state that we are mourning, not the loss of the particles.

"Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?

Then what died? Who are you mourning?

A point of view."

While I don't agree with learnd_astronomer's premise that humans are irreducibly complex, I do agree that consciousness is an emergent property, the loss of which the permanence of particles can not console.

[–]mognoose 0 points1 point ago

Stop telling secrets!

[–]richertai 0 points1 point ago

Secrets?

[–]mognoose 0 points1 point ago

Secret! You told another secret! You--you witless, jelly-bellied gusset-sniffing dunce! I ought to--

[–]richertai 1 point2 points ago

It's been years since I read The Wake. Thanks for the reminder.

[–]found314 3 points4 points ago

There's a soul that we connect with. Without it we are only a collection of particles.

It's also the soul that is grieving when you lose a loved one. And the realization that the connection between our souls won't be felt again while on this earth.

That's why you want a pastor at a funeral. To remind us that our souls will reconnect one day. That's comforting and that gives hope.

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[–]broskaphorous 3 points4 points ago

He doesn't mean literal soul.

[–]richertai 3 points4 points ago

That's why you want a pastor at a funeral. To remind us that our souls will reconnect one day.

Yes he does.

[–]xinlo 1 point2 points ago

I really hate the word "soul." It often seems to be accompanied by platitudinous bilge.

[–]richertai 1 point2 points ago

Yes, because the very idea is platitudinous bilge.

[–]buttholevirus -4 points-3 points ago

Lol stupid [f]ucking skytheists amirite?

[–]found314 -1 points0 points ago

just a Christian, buddy...

And I wouldn't really say the idea of Heaven is a weird or rare belief at all. I'm pretty sure it's gotten fairly mainstream by this point.

[–]thename226 -1 points0 points ago

I disagree. We've always had a problem that we thought was irreducible and too complex to understand ns we give up, and just a century or so later someone solves it who isn't necessarily smarter than the precious guy. It happened to Newton. Once you stop and attribute something to God and say it's too complicated you just stop trying.

[–]learnd_astronomer 0 points1 point ago

No one here is talking about religion. Relax, kiddo. I'm not saying human beings are too complex to understand. I'm saying that the complexity that emerges from a certain configuration of particles, making a human being, is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Mona Lisa is greater than the sum of its oil and pigment particles, right?

[–]Harry41f 2 points3 points ago

To early for tears...

[–]learnd_astronomer -2 points-1 points ago

Really? The realization that you're made up of particles brought you to tears? That's bizarre.

[–]Harry41f 1 point2 points ago

No. I clearly said it was to early for tears?

[–]learnd_astronomer -2 points-1 points ago

that's so... gay...

[–]Fopenplop 1 point2 points ago

Bullshit. Why shouldn't they reply that your death contributes to entropy?

[–]learnd_astronomer 0 points1 point ago

So does your living.

[–]LerithXanatos 1 point2 points ago

My mom will be dead by time my funeral comes around!

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