If there is a bigger picture, what is the impact of you ceasing to exist?
If we think of the universe as a large, changing pattern, is there always a pattern defined by the sum of all consciousness from which viewpoint each part of us is akin to a cell (maybe a neuron?) in which case your individual death is meaningless
on some higher level of complexity and self-awareness?
Is it a return to omniscience?
Or is it meaningless?
Or something else?
What do you think anihilation is like?
Have you ever passed out, and it seemed as if no time had passed for you at all while others saw you not moving for several minutes?
Now imagine never coming to. That is annihilation.
I think it feels exactly what it felt like before I was born.
It wouldn’t feel like anything, because there would be no I to feel it.
Spark up another doob, brah.
The meaning of anything (what it is “like”) is meaning to someone. If you’re dead, dude, the universe doesn’t have any meaning to you.
The rest of us may or may not notice.
Nothing.
No. Thing.
The only logical way to find the answer is to annihilate someone and then go up to the hole where they once were and say, “So what’s it like?”
Madman. You mean before I was born. The rest of you are naught but elements of my latest fever dream.
From another perspective, could it be like (and I know the following metaphor is a very rough one but it’s the most intuitive way to put it so bear with me) waking up from a dream?