Given that consciousness is energy, if the concept of identity is expanded enough throughout physics, could the afterlife be charted? Why? How? Yes, because the concept of identity must be expanded to fit the law of identity, the law of no contradiction, and the law of the excluded middle. “laws of thought, traditionally, the three fundamental laws of logic: (1) the law of contradiction, (2) the law of excluded middle (or third), and (3) the principle of identity”( https://www.britannica.com/topic/laws-of-thought ) .
“Leonard Peikoff and David Harriman have denounced modern physics as incompatible with Objectivist metaphysics and epistemology. Physics, they say, must return to a Newtonian viewpoint; much of relativity theory must go, along with essentially all of quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology. In their insistence on justifications in terms of ‘physical nature,‘ they cling to a macroscopic worldview that doesn't work in the high-velocity arena of relativity or the subatomic level of quantum mechanics. It is suggested that the concept of identity be widened to accommodate the probabilistic nature of quantum phenomena”(Gibson 2013).
Warren C. Gibson. “Modern Physics versus Objectivism.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2013, pp. 140–59. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.13.2.0140. Accessed 3 Dec. 2023.
If they demand that quantum mechanics and relativity need to go, they need to come up with consistent explanations for the experimental findings that gave rise to these (time dilatation, gravity waves, the photoelectric defect, stability of atoms, all spectroscopic results, atomic and molecular diffraction, the funcionality of MRT, why satellite navigation doesn't work without relativistic correction, synchrotron radiation...).
If they do not provide such a thing and just call their opposition to it "objectivism", their objectivism is just esoterics.
Trying to come to physically valid metaphysical conclusions based on such esoterics is a waste of time.
the afterlife is and remains a mystery. Only the saints were able to have access to this mystery. As far as we know before Christ, only Socrates seems to have entered into this mystery thanks to the voices he often heard. What is certain is that access to the physical world began with modern and still current methods, it began with the change generated by the Gospels.@@
Seem to me that consciousness (awareness) is not "energy" per se. Rather the outcome of the complexity of our brain that evolved to the point that we become able to perceive and better adapt to our physical environment.
Much progress has been made in understanding the manner in which our neocortex processes information:
Michaud, A. (2019). The Mechanics of Conceptual Thinking.
Creative Education, 10, 353-406.
https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2019.102028
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/CE_2019022016190620.pdf
it's hard to imagine a less appropriate comment. You talked about "afterlife" so I think you wanted to talk about the eternity of men's lives, or did I misunderstand?
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