richard dawkins postulates that life is centered around the replication of dna and in some way dna is actually immortal. i don't agree with his assertion, but it made me think. what if life is not just centered around the reproduction of dna? what if it is actually centered around the replication of molecular structures like dna, proteins, fats and all manner of biological material? if this were somehow shown to be true then the molecular structures that you produce and which go into the bodies of various flora and fauna may be in some strange way reincarnations of you.
some might say your subjective experience will cease and so who really cares? but neuroscience has shown us that at base level our subjective experience is predicated on the structures of biological material. so in a sense life and death are not really that different, they are both biological processes. what i'm trying to get at is that perhaps the perception of a unique self which is different from other things is really a biological trick which although it has survival value, does not describe the world as it really is. and in actual fact your subjective experience is designed to allow you to construct more of yourself, your molecular structures etc. and although these structures may not be conscious in the manner that you are, perhaps they are more you than your subjective experience would lead you to believe.
