Quote Originally Posted by really View Post
If I couldn't remember, it is best not to draw an immediate conclusion, and so simply find some other method. Memory is unreliable. It is easy to say that people forget things, but that's not to say certain things never happened at all.
Regardless, if you can't remember your life, "you" cease to exist.

You are essentially saying that you are observing observing. That cannot be done. You cannot observe awareness as such. That is why you cannot "detect" it. It spontaneously exists whether you think you're experiencing it or not.
I use my powers of observation to observe that I can, indeed, use my powers of observation. This can be done quite nicely.

In saying that we do not know what happened before us in this life, and that we cannot prove what comes next after us in this life, we can only learn from the current existence.
But you do believe that there is something after this life, no? Well, that is your choice. I believe otherwise, but agree that we may never know what's going on for sure.