If spirits and life after death isnt real, how come literally everyone from the dawn of humanity until now beloved in it?
Feels like hubris to pretend like something definitively doesn't happen, claiming (you) are right and the billions of people that have ever lived were wrong
>If spirits and life after death isnt real, how come literally everyone from the dawn of humanity until now beloved in it?
They didn't? See Sartre
>1905-1980
That means absolutely nothing retard
i wanna fuck the robot
get in line
The most plausible explanation is hyperactive agency detection.
Hubris is a very human thing.
One thing I find ridiculous is people not believing in free will.
Our understanding of the universe is driven by our perception, and despite all people perceiving free will for all of time, some have the audacity to suggest it doesn't exist.
But to answer your question, it seems natural that us humans - who are very afraid of death - would construct the idea of an afterlife even if there wasn't one.
So I don't think the pervasiveness of the concept is a good argument for life after death.
Better arguments for that would be things like near death experiences, the evidence for God and souls, which would imply life after death, or the experiences people have with the spiritual world.
What is free will? I've never seen someone give a meaningful definition of it outside of colloquial usage - e.g. I was "acting of my own free will" because I didn't have a gun held to my head.
Some sense that we are in control over our thoughts in actions, in part or in whole.
>Some sense that we are in control over our thoughts in actions, in part or in whole.
Again, I think it's a useful concept in common conversation or as a legal principle, but when you get down deep into it where do our actions come from except from some combination of nature and nurture? Your being (whether that's your body or some nebulous combination of body and soul) starts with some particular nature that is then shaped by your experienced (nurture). I just don't see what else comes into it.
>afterlife exists because… grug doesn’t want to die
If billions of people believed the earth was flat why do you believe it is round seems like hubris tbh
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
Argumentum ad populum fallacy.
Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo
I was not, I am, I will not be, and I do not care
It is difficult to imagine yourself not existing, also people want to believe, also different cultures have wildly different beliefs about life after death almost like they're just making things up, also they had no evidence to back up their beliefs.
But it wasn't even a popular idea among philosphers, only the religious and the common man. Why foes nobody here know basic highschool history?
It's been scientifically proven that reality is entirely subjective depending on the observer. It's also been shown that human thoughts can influence the nature of reality on a micro and macrocosmic scale.
Most people in the world, even if they're afraid to admit it, believe in ghosts, a God, ect.
Even without delving into the deeper obvious truths of occultism, life after death and spirits are real simply because enough people believe they are.
Also, there's the fact that consciousness is poorly understood and theorized as a specific field of electromagnetic energy or whatever which could theoretically be recreated at any time, it's a big stupid mess.
I implore you to get into occultism. It'll save your life.
>It's been scientifically proven that reality is entirely subjective depending on the observer.
gonna need a source on this that isn't a misinterpretation of the double slit experiment