You are an eternal being

Thank you Con for making this an exciting debate!Alright so, Con gives three main reasons as to why he votes that he as a personality and experience will cease to exist in the future. Con also says that matter will cease to exist in the Big Crunch. However I'm not sure if Con really knows the theory of the Big Bang that he mentions.Anway, here's my rebutal.1) The matter that makes me is composed in a unique pattern (eg. My DNA and anatomy are slightly different from those who may be similar to me) and this unique pattern is one of two necessary components of the being that is me. When I die and decompose my matter is scattered over a small area and my unique pattern is broken.Like I have said before about the chicken observation, you may transform or change over time and patterns may change but the particular universe where you're DNA pattern was still intact, still exists. One day as I was walking back home I had thoughts flowing through my head and something just clicked.That which exists will always exist, I realised. Everything that exists, including experiences will always exist. Because what exists, what is here, what is already objective cannot be non-objective or non-existant. Because how is it possible for something that exists to not exist? In fact, non-existence by definition deosn't exist. It is more clear when you ask the question, "does non-existence exist?". Non-existence is the absence of existence so technically it doesn't exist.One person replied; "If non-existence did not exist, then everything that could possibly exist would be in existence, which is plainly not the case. " - http://answers.yahoo.com...But it actually is the case when you look at the many worlds quantum mechanics theory about multiple universes. It says that all possible histories and futures are real. it says there are perhaps an infinite amount of universes that represent all possibilities. - http://en.wikipedia.org... This means that non-existence does not exist and indeed everthing that could possibly exist already exists. Therefore what exists cannot not exist and will always exist. And existence cannot come from non-existence, Existence is not subject to time, instead time is an experience inside existence. Think of it this way. If your grandpa died recently and somehow you were able to travel back in time, then you would see him still alive. His DNA pattern still exists. How could this be? If his DNA dissapeared as time went on, then how can his DNA be recreated when you go back in time? The only possible reason is that his DNA pattern exists in a separate parallel universe than the time-traveller's universe. And this DNA pattern will exist in this parallel universe forever.I realised that this could be a theory for what time actually is. It might be that time as we know it is just a series or collection of parallel universes that when you 'flip' through them, moves like a film. Kinda like a film strip with multiple pictures that when projected make a moving picture. http://image.shutterstock.com...; />Your unique DNA pattern may break in a future parallel universe, but the universe in which it is intact, till exists.2) I as a being constitute more than just the sum of the matter that I am made of. The I that I am is also composed of experiences and other subjective traits that do not exist in a physical sense. This is the second of the two necessary components that it is to be me. During my life and after I die my consciousness will cease to exist and with it as will I as me and my conscious being are nearly synonymous. Hmm, there could be an entirely new debate about whether or not your personality, experiences and traits are physical. But I will keep this short.There are many spiritual theories that I can give but I will keep it logical. Your experiences are physical because your memories that you draw upon are physical and stored in the billions of neurons in your brain. Your language, your favourite memories, personal preferences are all stored as memories that your brain can draw upon. And these memories are physical. These memories being physical will exist in their respected reality alongside with your body and brain as I've mentioned before. If memories do not make up the you that you are and if you have some non-physical traits that You believe you have, please specify them.Now about your consciousness being eternal is something I cannot say with certainty. Because if I connect consciousness with my previous arguments then I will be saying that consciousness is physical which can be a debate unto itself. So let's say you cloned yourself using an advanced machine and this clone has all of your physical properties and not just DNA. So this clone would have the exact same body as you and also the exact same memories. If I were to say that you both have consciousness then I will be saying that you both have identical consciousnesses and that you are the same person living in two seperate bodies. If you except that consciousness is physical then even if you were to die, there would still be a universe where you're conscious being continues to exist.3) Eternity, an infinite amount of time, or a timeless state [1]. The most widely accepted theory for the creation of the universe (and therefore matter) is the Big Bang and with that the theory of the Big Crunch for the end of the universe. I will not exist eternally because that, according to these theories, is impossible. As all matter cease to be the moment after the Big Crunch my existence (according to you) should also cease to exist, however you posit the matter I am made from will exist eternally that is that it will survive time itself, this is surely a scientific impossibility. (This point is more of a technicality with a term I know but I felt obligated to at least point it out)People have a common misconception about the Big Bang because this theory has been oversimplified. Just because the Universe we live in was created by the 'Big Bang' it doesn't say that time, logic and reality was created, or that it says existence, was born out of the Big Bang. And it also does not say that matter was created by the Big bang either.The Big BangThe Big Bang should have been called the 'accelerated expansion' or 'the everywhere stretch' and this is because there is a common misconception that everything in the universe began in a singularity. so this brings the question, what happened before the big bang? Con assumes that matter was created through the Big Bang which is admitingly what I have thought my whole life until l watched a particular video (YouTube is really transformative).And that particular video is the video shown above. It will also show you how the Universe or multiverse is eternal and might not have a begining at all. http://www.youtube.com...Con says that the Big Crunch or the 'Big Rip' is what will ultimately end all matter in the Universe. But just because one universe eventually tears all it's atoms apart into energy (remember that energy can neither be created nor destroyed) there will still be other universes intact with it's stars and planets in the infinite place of the multiverse.And it is eternal.And You are eternal.And You exist. http://www.nature.com...; width="366" height="296" />