From where I’m sitting, it looks like death should not be the end in that case.
You can’t perceive the passage of time when you are dead, so you’re just going to experience dying and then immediate rebirth after the countless eons pass for that rare moment where entropy spontaneously reverses to form your mind again.
You referenced anesthesia though, so more consistently, moments without conscious experience do not have conscious experience. Otherwise, deep sleep and spiritual “reset” experiences are “the brain not functioning.” I suppose that’s linguistically complementary with death as “sleep from which you do not wake” except perhaps you do.
Yeah, there are times my brain is existing and producing consciousness, and there are times where it isn’t, but so far my experience has been an uninterrupted chain of continuous consciousness regardless of any of those events, and as such it might well be the case that’s just the one universal constant I can be sure of, and I shouldn’t expect that to change with my death, especially when it might be the case that my brain, the thing supposedly producing the consciousness, might exist again in the case of Poincare recurrence, just like it exists again when I come out of the effects of general anesthesia, or it exists again when I’m born.
None of this is solid philosophically or scientifically I’m sure, I’m literally just trying to put it in a way that makes sense to me and the way I understand the rest of the world.
Not even logically sound, because the brain is still working when you’re asleep, but you do you.
Right, the brain is still working when I’m asleep! I consider sleeping to be part of that time when I’m conscious for the most part, it’s general anesthesia where things definitely cease all together.
Even if you are not dreaming? Idk
It’s weird, even when I’m not dreaming I’m sure there’s some other deeper process going on in there because we know for sure brain activity does not so sharply fall off when we sleep like it does under general anesthesia.