That is a fresh perspective. Makes you want to get busy living it up.
I think everyone will find out the real answer before they want to…
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What about the law of conservation? People have energy running through them in the form of electricity I believe in one way or another. This energy cannot be destroyed, maybe transfered. No clue just a thought I have always had. It has to go somewhere…
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ok, I have a large box and it’s sealed. You can’t see the dimensions or where it is. What’s inside the box? You can come up with a million things that are certainly not inside the box, but you can never be certain of what is actually INSIDE the box. That’s what we’re facing. You could claim a million things about “life after death” and they would all be incorrect. It’s just like claiming you know what’s inside the box.
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It’s a cat isn’t it. 
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I know I know, you could take an infinite number of guesses, and each of them more meaningless than the last. Unless there is a shred of evidence to show you what is real, then nothing is real. We live in an evidence based reality.
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There’s more to the story while I was getting into the ambulance I was taking my piercings out nipples and dick ring 
didn’t want my dick get blown off if they had to shock me
Did all this in the middle of the ambulance then sit down and died twice my wife’s a nurse I got them to bring to the hospital she was working at,so she was waiting for me knew all the nurses since I feed most of them ,I never put my sick piercing back in after that
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I don’t know how the hell you could do that in the first place.
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Lost a bet 
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now THATS funny… AND thinking outside (or is it inside?) the box.
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Ah, but is the cat alive or dead? That’s the real question here…
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Exactly.
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whatever is in the box is literally suspended in disbelief, slowly dying while living out an alternative, non-diegetic reality.
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The real question, yes, the real question.
I’m not sure we as humble humans can answer the real question. That’s kind of the point of the thought experiment. We can not know- because we can not ever see the full picture. The cat is alive and dead with both equal probability, and it would be foolish to say either with certainty over the other.
You can’t simply reject the presence of something because there isn’t substantial proof. You also, however, can’t base your whole life around a belief that something unprovable is true.
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Isn’t the point here that both realities are simultaneously true?
I have read it that way.
There is death after life. Maybe I read that one wrong 
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That without proof is dismissed without proof. Sagan
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You have to entertain the idea they are both true for your mind to proceed is the idea. The very big idea.
This applies the the physical world. Metaphysics transcends human logic. It’s natural that it makes no sense in the here and now. We can only hope it will make sense then and there… or it won’t. And there is nothing. And then you win Joe, right? Will you be happy then?
I don’t care to sit too long at either camp. People drink the wine too much. Science has become a religion for those who believe in it. As a man of science I can soundly say there are many scientific prick principles I bleibe true. Have I tested them? No. I wouldn’t understand the results. Other, smarter people did. And I believe them why? Because they are peer reviewed and I could if I wanted repeat the experiment?
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It is my opinion that, our bodies will rot as they have an expiration date, while our souls are eternal. What happens to our souls? Well that is pure speculation, or belief.
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I think its just lights out lol. If you need a reason to be a good person then sure religion is great for you but I like to think I don’t need to praise some man in the sky that may or may not be real haha.
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The point of the cat is to illustrate how quantum particles can exist in a superposition of states at the same time and collapse down to a single state upon interaction with other particles. The cat also is kind of a failed thought experiment, because the cat’s state is not determined by interaction with an observer, but interaction with a radioactive particle. The cat is definitively alive or dead at any given time, we just have no way to know until we open the box.
As far as the point of this conversation? Uh… that’s a little more murky. 
I think it’s best to just let people believe what they want to believe, whatever makes them happy - since, as mentioned, there’s no proof one way or the other, nor even any real possibility of there ever being proof.
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read about the philosophy of science, Frink out.
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