Another life ?

I would dare say that a major portion of the earth's population disbelieve in
the existence of a life after the current one . We may resemble our ancestors in
having the common reason for such disbelief to be the difficulty of grasping
the possibility of another life, particularly after our biological reduction to
waste materials, which is further enhanced by the absence of solid evidence of
such life – no 'returners' to narrate its existence.

So no chance of 'another' life ? Well, some theories feed the alternative

prospects.

Nick Bostrom, is an Oxford professor and philosopher, Director of the Future

of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, known for his popular paper 'The
Simulation Argument' . The argument postulates the possibility (and
favors its probability) that we may be living in the likeness of a computer
simulation, controlled from another dimensional level. When asked about
certain implications of the simulation hypothesis, here is what Dr. Bostrom
had to say: " The last section of the original paper speculated about certain
parallels that could be drawn between traditional religious conceptions and
our relations to our hypothetical simulators. These simulators would have
created our world, they would be able to monitor everything that happens
here, and they would be able to intervene in ways that conflict with the
simulated default laws of nature. Moreover, they would presumably be
superintelligent (in order to be able to create such a simulation in the first
place). An afterlife in a different simulation or at a different level of reality
after death-in-the-simulation would be a real possibility. It is even
conceivable that the simulators might reward or punish their simulated
creatures based to how they behave, perhaps according to familiar moral or
religious norms (a possibility that gains a little bit of credibility from the
possibility that the simulators might be the descendants of earlier humans
who recognized these norms). "

In that analogy, death is merely a transfer process from one simulated

existence to another, and we are sheer 'characters', downloaded from one
existence , ending our presence in it, only to be uploaded to another, to
continue our existential progression.

Similarly, there is The Dream Argument , which eventually leads to the

query : How do you distinguish a dream from reality, as Rene Descartes puts it
"there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish
wakefulness from sleep", given that in a dream all your senses can be fully
engaged, and – thus – how do we know that we are not living a dream, and
hence 'waking up ' to a new world at our final eye lid closure ?