Philosophy
Dragan Glavasic
IMMORTALITY
ARGUMENT
Live entities have an
innate proclivity or an overwhelming instinct to stay alive and to avoid
death. As a matter of fact, all that
exists have a natural tendency to remain existent… On the other hand,
intelligent beings also have a knowledge that sooner or later we must die:
which is in the direct disagreement with our inborn predisposition to fear
death and our prime objective to circumvent it, as much as possible.
That way, these two rudimentary but
inconsistent forces have created a great deal of inner strife, a tremendous
mental instability, and an enormous conflict within human mind: because, on one
hand we are aware that death is eminent and on the other hand there is this
overwhelming desire to live, a primordial order to stay alive… Unfortunately, up till now, only religions
have attempted to reduce or completely alleviate this cognitive chaos, this
awesome source of the ultimate confusion and horrifying contradiction…
Within unbounded Cosmos or inside infinite universe that
contains unlimited amount of matter, which exists forever and undergoes
constant or periodic changes for all eternity and beyond: it would not be
logical for intelligent life to
appear only once and only in one place.
What’s more, within such awesome and mind boggling structure as is
Cosmos or our universe, it would be far more logical to expect for each and
every being—that is, was or will be—to periodically reappear then disappear and
to continue that everlasting process indefinitely.
In other words, all people
that are currently alive, that have already lived or
will live: will be born and will die countless number of times; hence, lead
infinitely many identical, similar and totally different lives. Each and every conscious human being will
have endless number of different lives and each one of those countless number
of different lives will be repeated infinitely many times. That means that we are immortal beings: since
an infinite number of short lives is actually
immortality (eternal existence within the only functional framework of
immortality: immortality that is made of incalculable number of finite lives)!
Just stated is the only
possible rational conclusion since in the infinite universe, which contains
incredible amount of matter that exists forever and undergoes constant or
periodic changes: it would not be logical to expect that life would appear only
once in one place or that we would live just one short life then disappear
forever thus never again exist for all eternity. Because if our ontological status before our
birth is identical to our ontological condition after our death then we were
long dead before we were born and if we were dead once then we came to life,
with death we only return to that previous state, in which we were already and
from where we entered life, hence in eternal and infinite universe that
contains endless amount of matter: we don’t have any other option but eternally
to carry on that colossal cycle of endless births and deaths, leading countless
number of different lives, each one of them infinitely many times.
This form of existence is
also the only pragmatic type of immortality therefore the very best
thing that could happen to us, which demonstrates that reason alongside science
has finally managed to uncover—a deeper and more profound truth beyond mundane
appearance—that the ultimate reality is much more favorable toward life and
intellectual entities than what we could have ever imagined through irrational
means, such as religions.
Similar to that, there is an additional argument: in colossal
reality which is best defined through fundamental characteristics of eternal
existence and change, it makes more sense to expect for us to live endless
number of lives thus that way to be immortal; instead of anticipating that we
would never get born or to have just one short life or a limited number of
finite lives!
The previous two arguments have demonstrated that from a
materialistic position, as from an idealistic standpoint, just as from a
general philosophical approach: there are rational reasons for us to claim to
be immortal. As a matter of fact, it is
far more justifiable for us to ascertain the notion of being immortal than of
being mortal!
Death
is nothing else than man’s amazing voyage toward yet another birth, another
life!
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[This subject matter is presented more extensively and to a far
greater detail in the latest book by Dragan Glavasic, Space and Time.]
