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Hello everyone out there,
This post is an outcome of my recent “late night” curiosity about death. Most of the materials here are coming from youtube, specially from the channel of DNews among others. And to be very frank, I did not crosscheck the authenticity of their materials (and hence I am not claiming any definitiveness here).
Now guys, I am not a psychopath or sociopath or similar – at least that I do believe. Neither I am at all religious or spiritual or even a “weedist” of any reputation. My personal interests on death starts with the most complex sets of wires mankind know about. Yes, you got that right – brain ! We are so “we” when we are alive and then one fine morning we become a pile of chemicals, only ! What happened to our plans and dreams and joy and sorrows and poetries and wars and loves and hates ? They were there and then they do not exist altogether !
Well, I do not find any discomfort thinking that, biologically, I am a machine, hardwired by some basic strategies, developed by trial-and-errors over millions of years, to decrease the chance of my destruction while increasing the chance of my ability of sustaining “me”. To me, this “me” is a set of informations – my genetic code. This “me” tries and often “almost” make it to perpetuate its existence with a little variation – the reason here I am – a Homo Sapiens from a couple of Homo Sapiens. Now you may yell at me with the word “MUTATION” !!! That’s different story folks and that is why I wrote “almost” !
Now there is another “me” in a smaller time-scale. That is the idiot who is writing this God-knows-what piece of again-God-knows-what. Now I know I am made up of Blood cells and they are part of “me”. But I also know that the major portions of it was not there an year ago or will not be there after a year ! The did I change ? NO ! Most of “me” got and will get shed again and again over my life-time. Yet “I” will be the very same – fill the blank guys. So what am “I” at the very first place. The real answer is – “I do NOT know !”. But if you insist, I would like to hypothesize it as a set of “informations” – a huge number of “locked” patterns of neural connections (synapses) – our memory. Yes that is what, I think, what “I” am. All of me starts from getting the response data from my sensory organs, matching the data with the previous memories and extrapolating it to something else. Well, of course the “processor” is important – it processes informations. But to defend my point, I know that even with the same hardwares will not produce same output if the data we have to compare with – the memory – are not the same ! Rabindranath would not, I believe, write “Ghore-Baire” if he has to live now (I am really glad that he did not)!
And when we die, one of the thing that gets destroyed is the Hard disk – the memory and so this “me” goes away !
The death happens when the whole of the brain stops working. And that’s it ! The human body is a machine with limited warranty and it just expires ! All of “me” goes away as the whole machine no longer can process data. The main server crushes and so do the peripherals ! Normal, is not it ?
Well, I find it pretty interesting that even after realising that I am a pile of informations, augmented, created, changed and deleted for the sake of keeping another set of informations safe, I am feeling curious to know who is going to read this useless writeup !
This much only for today – will be back with the recently-procured, probably half-digested and possibly factually dubious set of mechanism of death in the next piece of – you name it !
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