Tim Ferriss

So... I think that's informed by some of the experiences on psychedelics.

And I recognize I could take, and I think it's important, if you have a strong belief,

I think it's really important that you try to attack that belief with the strongest possible version of a critic's arguments, right?

I really think that's important.

If you want to become a better thinker and a better human, I think that's important.

So, I recognize that I could also make a bunch of arguments for why it should just be lights out.

But if I'm looking at

some of the documentation around near-death experiences, if I'm looking at, like, the sort of... the CCTV-like view from above where people are able to confirm things that happened, where objects were placed, what people said while they were clinically dead.

It's hard to explain that with, like, hypoxia and...

death rattle spasms in the brain and erratic neuronal firing.

Seems pretty hard to explain.

And there's enough in terms of documented cases where, at the very least, it raises some interesting questions.

So, what do I think happens when you die?

I mean, the best placeholder that I have is that consciousness is fundamental, just like matter.

I'm not even convinced time is fundamental.

But...

Carlo Rivelli, I think his name is.

Like, there's some really interesting writing from physicists on time.

Like, it's not as static, uniform, constant as one might like to think.

But if consciousness on some level is fundamental, kind of Max Planck style, then I think when you die, it's like a drop return to the ocean.