"The Afterlife Dysfunction": our consciousness needs a brain to re-activate it?

“The Afterlife Dysfunction” by Breaking Beats, asks “did quantum physics just prove the afterlife? Quantum physics is now the afterlife realm”. The film is by Athene, Reese, and Raxxroth. 

Our consciousness defines everything, and can be mapped onto a 2-d space (like a hard drive, or the surface of a black hole).  It seems to need a body and a brain to map it.  But what happens to it when we die?  Can an existing file be given to another person to redevelop?

Maybe this does have something to do with profound giftedness.

So I'm not quite sure why this is "dysfunction"?  Does function return when there is another brain to map it to? 

If you've ever been befriended by a stray cat, you learn that wild animals "know" things we don't, and sometimes know a lot more about us that we can imagine.

Animals nurture that partition of consciousness that they need to produce their own offspring.  There is a certain parallelism between permanent consciousness, and the partition of it an animal needs to produce offspring.

"Proving Reincarnation with Quantum Physics" by No Apologies (6 min) has a woman explain how the quantum record of a mind can energize a developing baby about 5 weeks into pregnancy.  You normally don't know what bodies used your life-experience set before.  But having a 15 year old healthy body to start reusing the information of a physicist who might have lived to 100 sounds like a good deal.   Does it matter how you die, as to the quality of the knowledge you pass on?  Is a natural end much more likely to leave a closed record that a succeeding child can develop with?  Unfinished music compositions (like Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, which he almost did complete) might exist in the quantum record, and another person might have access to it that way.  

"Sleep Is Just Death Being Shy" -- even if you didn't pass on your own genes

“Sleep Is Just Death Being Shy”, by exurb1a.

Right, every conscious being sleeps. 

The filmmaker counts how many descendants we should have with our DNA in a number or years or generations.  He doesn’t mention climate change but he does talk about the sun warming and making the Earth uninhabitable anyway in less than a billion years – meaning evacuate Earth – when there is not room for everybody, posing moral questions we aren’t ready for.

So maybe the information content of your own life is permanent and winds up stored on the surface of a black hole forever, if you have a normal passing at tend of natural life (my mother more or less did).  Maybe your consciousness misses physicality.  Or maybe if you die suddenly and violently at someone else’s hands (or even your own), you are denied even that permanence.

But I will have zero descendants with my DNA.  Will that matter?

It won’t when the Universe ends, if it does. 

  

Maybe as you go, time stops and you sense immortality in a relativistic sense.

"Titan: A Frozen Oasis": new short film with an interesting prediction about Saturn's lively moon

“Titan: A Frozen Oasis” is a new 16-minute short film from SEA: The Lesser Worlds.

  

   

The film notes that Titan has an underground ocean (like Europa) which could have its own life, creating a “political struggle” if there is also sheet-like life in the oceans on the surface (rather like slime molds, maybe).

  

The cloudtops get 1% of the sunlight on Earth.

The moon is slightly smaller than Ganymede (Jupiter) not counting the atmosphere.  

   

The interesting premise of this film is that when the Sun turns into a red giant starting in about 5 billion years (long after life on Earth is fried – by true climate change – and Earth has had to evacuate) the moon will warm up, the ice mountains will melt and conditions may be similar to a primordial Earth (no oxygen at first).  But it will have only a few hundred million years of mild temperatures.

The film also mentions “Avengers: Endgame” with Thanos depicted as living on a terraformed Titan. YouTube activist Carlos Maza was sometimes compared to Thanos in memes a few months ago during a major censorship controversy.

NASA 2018 photo of Titan surface under the clouds, 2018, Public Domain 

"Natural Born Settlers": NYTImes op-doc on what life is like in a West Bank settlement

The New York Times has an interesting op-doc (among many), this one directed by Iris Zaki, “Natural Born Settlers” (18 min), with the subtitle “What It’s Like to Group up in an Israeli Settlement”.

A young woman who has grown up in Tel Aviv decides to spend the summer living in a West Bank Settlement of Tekoa.  It is viewed as a “moderate” settlement, compared to Hebron, with is more radical. There are 132 legal settlements and 106 illegal, according to the film.

She rents part of a small house on the edge of town, and then opens a tiny snack shop, and first is visited by a cat, but soon has a parade of people willing to be interviewed and filmed. Many have grown up in the settlement and believe Israel has its only possible homeland, and that the Palestinians are here because of “history”. 

One woman lost part of her family to a drive-by terrorist shooting.

  

Another woman says Israel has to decide on the sovereignty question for the West Bank and suggests a confederation as a legal structure.

Wikipedia attribution: 

By Deror avi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

"What Is Consciousness?" The Economist (and Michio Kaku)

“What Is Consciousness?”, from The Economist.

The film isolates the claustrum, underneath the cerebrum, as critical.

Consciousness is continuity of a point-of-view about one’s experience in the environment, with the capacity to make choices of interactions and live with the consequences of choices.  Consciousness, when taking action based on choices, reduces entropy.

The video describes a theory of mind, meaning a conscious being and imagine another conscious being (even an animal) from externality. Some speakers and writers can communicate what it is like to be “him”.  Just watch a John Fish growth video. But a “relationship” produces that kind of illusion.

  

Michio Kaku describes closed loops composed of individual pieces analogous to thermostats. These objects can detect temperature, moisture, space, and time. Only humans and maybe a few animals can process time.

Kurgesagt weighs in with the first of a series. 

"The Fifth of November": a women loses her fiance to gun violence and plots for group revenge

A site called “The Audience Awards” offers a lot of new short films in circulation, some not on YouTube. 

(Note: As pf  9/13, the film is no longer available publicly and the video is marked private now by embeds.  The video below is a poem of the same name by Juliette Hannah.  I don't see a trailer in YouTube now but I'll look again soon;  there is likely to be one soon.  IMDB link.  I'll check later to see how to get an account to view the private films ).

“The Fifth of November”, directed by Javier Augusto Nunez, entered in a horror short circulation, presents Jane, a secular possibly Muslim woman (not really PoC) played by Qurrat Ann Kadwani with a good job in San Diego.  The said date is her birthday.  As it approaches, she recalls how her fiancé (William H. Bryant, African American) was murdered in a restaurant in a mass shooting a year ago.

  

The boyfriend had urged her to get into real group activism and spend less time alone.

She begins to imagine her revenge, to kidnap and shoot a white man for his part in collective guilt. Os this real or just a fantasy? 

The title of the film reminds me of the play "The Fifth of July" which I saw in NYC in 1978.  The film comes from QK Company and was made with SAG.

Picture: San Diego, night, 2012 (mine)

"Three Ways to Destroy the Universe" by Kurzgesagt (is the Bootes Void evidence of a Big Rip already?)

Kurzgesagt gives us “Three Ways to Destroy the Universe” (6 min).

“The Big Rip” is often presented as the most likely.  Dark energy causes space to expand with acceleration.  Space between galaxies expands first (maybe the Bootes Void?) but eventually gravity is not strong enough to hold galaxies, then stars, then planets, then even atoms together. 

The second is a “heat death” (or big freeze) driven by entropy, but it might be reversed by “quantum tunneling”.

   

The third is a “big crunch”, a reversing process that might eventually rebound with another big bang, a cycle that could go on infinitely.