23 April

The word 'cat' is a virtual or potential version of a cat. A cat sitting next to me is an actual cat. The word can be used to describe all possible cats. This idea (potential/virtual) is I think the key to understanding life and death. Death is not nothingness - there is no such thing as nothing, you can't describe it, picture it or even imagine it. It can't exist. Death is a virtual or potential state. Look at this amazing old (1848) photo. The people all long dead. But still virtually, potentially here. If they'd become 'nothing', we wouldn't remember them. Elvis is dead, but he still makes people cry. He's still potentially/virtually here. We're all eternal beings, existing in various combinations of virtual and actual.