2010-01-10, 06:14 AM
This question has been brought up too many times by too many people, but here it is again.
Setting all religious bias aside, what happens when you die? Scientifically, your bodily processes cease to work, which is the focal point of this question; does your entire conscience basically go dark? It's logical to assume that you can't see, hear, or feel anything when you're dead. All evidence basically points to your mind going to nothing. I guess the main question here is: Where does your conscience actually go? Whenever I think of an answer to this question I end up repeating myself over and over again (And I've done that already here).
Then there's the possibility of there actually being an alternate reality of sorts that isn't measurable by any physical means--an afterlife. It's pretty much impossible to elaborate on this.
Then, I read this: "If consciousness is energy, then I suppose you don't need proof that it survives death, because proof already exists: the First Law of Thermodynamics - energy is neither created or destroyed."
Discuss.
Setting all religious bias aside, what happens when you die? Scientifically, your bodily processes cease to work, which is the focal point of this question; does your entire conscience basically go dark? It's logical to assume that you can't see, hear, or feel anything when you're dead. All evidence basically points to your mind going to nothing. I guess the main question here is: Where does your conscience actually go? Whenever I think of an answer to this question I end up repeating myself over and over again (And I've done that already here).
Then there's the possibility of there actually being an alternate reality of sorts that isn't measurable by any physical means--an afterlife. It's pretty much impossible to elaborate on this.
Then, I read this: "If consciousness is energy, then I suppose you don't need proof that it survives death, because proof already exists: the First Law of Thermodynamics - energy is neither created or destroyed."
Discuss.