If death (assuming no afterlife) erases your conciousness, it should also erase your memory of ever having been concious. It should be as though you never existed at all, right? Not just future and present gone, but past.
So then how are we here, being concious and remembering stuff? How could that be unless the universe is inherently static, or at least endlessly self-repeating, and us being concious is just a permanent feature of our corner of it?
Has anyone else thought about this or am I just rambling?
While I have never died I assume the world will keep moving along after death, there's billions of people, countless living organisms, and artificial intelligence all capable of perceiving the world in ways I can only imagine. To assume all existence will stop upon death seems a bit selfish, I may not know what happens after death but assuming it's nothingness, your conciousness may no longer exist but your body and actions will remain. Unless it's a simulation of course, which in my opinion is not atheism.
For real, sometimes I almost hope this is all just the background simulation for a matrioshka brain.