@TheGoldenMole
I think life is a learning/growing experience and it's purpose is to learn to love and appreciate each other, and all of what "is". I believe that time is merely and illusion- that all points of time are occurring simultaneously, and that we just experience them in succession due to limitations of the physical bodies we inhabit... this is in a way a delusion. I believe in existence outside this reality that we are experiencing with sequential time. I think that what we call our 'consciousness', 'soul' or 'life energy' exists beyond this reality and has/does/will choose to experience life in this way, but what when we depart our corpereal existence, we step beyond this limited view of existing having retained our knowledge of a segregated existence and become fully aware of the inter-connectivity of all matter, energy and life.
there are many reasons why humans became the dominant form of life on Earth, not the least of which is our ability to co-operate with each other. Current scientific thinking on the importance of co-operation.
Your body would probably decay, but regarding consciousness, I feel like this is a topic not thought about properly by secular views. If we are to cease being conscious after we die, then you are suggesting that there is an eternity of nothingness after we die. That means that the probability of being conscious right now would be 1/infinity which would be a 0% chance. Therefore you can make the logical conclusion that consciousness would continue in someway, just not in a way where you are combining a temporary state of consciousness(our conscious life now) with an eternal state, as you’d have a 0% chance of being conscious of the temporary state. Therefore the likely scenario is that consciousness is not created by the brain but merely integrated into it, and it would take on a new host when you die.
Because in our society, “free will” is limited to what you want to do for a living (i.e. for money). Anything you wanna do has to fit the framework of our shit system. The current system was built by rich people who have benefited historically, and still do benefit today, from exploiting the average person’s ability to do things. They withhold necessities that are integral to our survival, and get angry when we don’t wanna play by their game; and get labeled depressed when we bash the system. Our natural state, as animals, is NOT to be bound by careers, or obligation to someone else’s company/power. We are supposed to be free roaming creatures, and yet we have domesticated ourselves. Work and school come with deadlines and with deadlines comes stress. With work, deadlines never end, thus, the stress isn’t designed to end. However, stress isn’t something we should be feeling ALL the time- only when, say… a lion is chasing you. When a person feels stress, their first line of thinking is “Oh shit!! I need to get outta here!” But with work and school- deadlines- your stress will follow you wherever you are, even after you finish the one project that was initially stressing you out; stress will remain constant. Therefore, there is no “getting outta there” when it comes to your job because- opposite to the lion situation- leaving your job might actually result in YOUR inevitable starvation, whereas in the other situation, you get to live and the lion goes hungry. But our society expects everyone to be happy in a basic, run of the mill job- despite the drawbacks of said type of job- just because “at least it’s enough to survive.” But I don’t buy that. Just because I’m alive you want me to be happy? Why? Because ejaculation is a thing? That doesn’t eliminate the fact that I didn't ask to be here. What’s the point of living a life we didn’t ask for if we’re just expected to do busy work for rich people while they live it up on their yachts? But people say “if you work hard enough, you’ll reach their status too!” <- False. I know people with 2+ jobs who work harder than ANY executive has in their entire life and can still barely make enough money to feed their family, let alone become a billionaire. But people feel like their time being wasted by the bourgeiosie is fairly recompensated with money, and the ability to do whatever they want with it (after taxes, and bills), as long as it’s not spent “irresponsibly.” But money gives people dominion and power over others. Money is also a necessity and people need it to survive; and the problem is that other people were given the authority to decide who gets and who doesn’t get money, which ultimately boils down to one human deciding which humans are more worthy of survival; those who play the game of the bourgeoisie vs those who don’t. So why am I not allowed to decide my own fate unless it fits the capitalist framework, and why is some dude who managed to “achieve” authority over me allowed to decide if I’m allowed the money that is necessary to survive? I don’t see how that’s any more “morally acceptable” than suicide.