The concept of the "soul" is both curious and frightening, referring to whether a human being will survive in another form after death. In mythology, human beings are made up of body and soul, and when they leave the world, the soul will go out of the way to heaven or purgatory.
However, with the continuous development of science, human beings gradually realized that the so-called "soul" is actually the product of spiritual or brain activity, and after death, spiritual thinking will no longer exist.
The current theory is that human brain consciousness is produced by brain activity, and after the death of the brain, brain cells and neurons stop functioning, the brain's memory, consciousness and human limb activities, senses, etc. will stop, which means the end of life, even if the soul really exists, it will disappear with the death of the body.
But scientific theories are always on the road, constantly evolving and moving forward, and some theories are only correct in the present, or under certain conditions, and change in an environment or time. To take a simple example: deep in the "black hole" of the universe, the physical laws of human beings at the singularity will fail, and in this case, the original theories will become waste.
So, if one day in the future, scientists really prove that the "soul" can "not die", then what kind of impact will it have on our lives?
The birth of any new thing will not change people's original lives at first, but it must change people's cognition and perception. If scientists prove in the future that souls can not die, they can always exist. Now that cutting-edge technology has realized this, scientists are working to preserve and transfer consciousness.
Scientists believe that the self-consciousness in the universe is in a state of "low entropy" (the higher the "entropy", the more chaotic, the lower and more orderly), and the human self-consciousness also belongs to this state. Judging from the situation currently mastered by human beings, the "entropy" in the universe is very low, the major galaxies, celestial bodies, etc. are running regularly, and the stars are also steadily outputting light and heat.
This means that the universe in ancient times had lower "entropy", although we cannot be sure that the universe was a closed loop. Overall, however, the "entropy" in the universe will become higher and higher with the transmission of energy, and in this increasing process, there is a probability that there will be a large number of low-entropy self-consciousnesses, which can exist alone without the help of the body, like a non-dependent brain, such consciousness is called the "Boltzmann brain".
Why do scientists think there is a "Boltzmann brain"? This is because, in terms of probability, the probability of a "Boltzmann brain" is more likely than the emergence of a self-consciousness that is similar to that of humans and can reproduce itself. Scientists believe that since humans can appear in the universe, the "Boltzmann brain" may also appear, but many disappear in the form of "short-lived". Some studies believe that the occasional "flash of inspiration" in the human brain may be related to the "Boltzmann brain".
The Boltzmann Brain re-understands human self-awareness from the perspective of data, and although each of us has consciousness, it is still difficult to find such a sense of self in the universe except for the earth. In addition to the "Boltzmann brain", scientists have also proposed the concepts of "dark matter" and "dark energy", which are different from ordinary things and do not have the ability to radiate and absorb light, so humans cannot see.
Based on these principles, some of the world's biggest men and richest people, including Silicon Valley scientific odds elon Musk, are looking forward to and trying to make human beings free from the flesh in the future and continue to live in the form of "digital consciousness". To this end, Musk's Neuralink company is working in this direction, and has now completed trials on live pigs and monkeys.
Not long ago, a brain-computer interface company called Synchron helped a high paraplegic patient with alzheimer's disease to send a tweet through the consciousness control computer, although only "world, hello" just a few words, but it shows that consciousness can really upload and change the world.
Consciousness is really wonderful, invisible and untouchable but can be understood and spoken. It's a bit like dark matter and dark energy, which, while invisible, silently affect the universe. Studies have shown that in the vast universe, dark matter plays the role of "glue", sticking everything in the universe together and maintaining the stability of cosmic galaxies. If there were no dark matter in the universe, most of the stars in the banking system would be out of orbit and disappear.
Dark energy, which accounts for 69 percent of the universe's total mass energy, is a major component of the universe and is dominating and accelerating the expansion of the universe. While scientists still have a lot of doubts about dark matter and dark energy, it's safe to say for sure that they are ubiquitous and dominate our world. So is consciousness the same, although invisible, but dominates the fate of mankind?
Some people believe that the soul may still exist after death, and its form may be somewhat similar to that of dark matter and dark energy. However, there is no scientific evidence for this hypothesis.
If the future really finds that the soul can exist apart from the body, will it affect human life? I think probably not, because the universe itself is full of dark matter and dark energy, and we can't perceive it on a daily basis. Just as Newton discovered gravity and Einstein proposed the theory of relativity on this basis, it only allows us to understand the earth and the universe better and improve our lives, and it will only get better and better.
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