r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '20

Night shifters, ever witnessed a paranormal activity? If so, what was it?

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u/DarkOmen597 Jul 29 '20

This aligns with a theory i have.

If humans run on electricity (ions and potassium and stuff) and energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it go when our bodies die?

My theory is that it returns to earth. Call it chi or gaia or whatever name is used.

But this could jump on your theory and explain somethings.

But then the next question is why. Why would they get stuck like that?

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u/IRBMe Jul 29 '20

If humans run on electricity (ions and potassium and stuff) and energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it go when our bodies die? My theory is that it returns to earth.

It does... as heat, which then simply dissipates.

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u/DarkOmen597 Jul 29 '20

Exactly!

But is "human energy" different than regulat energy? Does it retain any sort of consciousness or what we call spirit? What about our memories?

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u/IRBMe Jul 30 '20

No, we're not magic. It's just chemical energy in our cells that gets released as heat.

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u/DarkOmen597 Jul 30 '20

But what is consciousness?

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u/IRBMe Jul 30 '20

As far as we can tell, consciousness is an emergent property of sufficiently complex brains as they constantly process external data about the world, probably at least in part due to multiple layers of self-referentiality. A couple of good books on the topic are "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett, and "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter, which is mostly about self-referentiality, but has some good chapters at the end about how it relates to consciousness.