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"I believe it continues.
I'm not religious, but I do believe in the spirit "
Same I believe that when we pass on our spirits linger and watch over our loved ones |
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Are you asking what it is in abstract terms or human terms?
Don’t think there’s any evidence it endures in humans beyond the point of death. There would be no logical purpose of that, though the belief that it does seems to give comfort to some. |
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Consciousness is energy focused and structured, you cannot destroy energy, but energy can be dissipated and reformed elsewhere.
When you die, you wont remember anything of your current life, exactly like you cannot remember anything before you were born.
But there is somethong else on the other side, it doesnt just go black, imagining "nothingness" is possible, cos even a black void is still something, a black void, a space, nothingness is spaceless. So there is definitely something on the other side.
Is it a new life? Is it paradise? Nobody truly knows whats in store for us when we die hntil we all eventually experience it. |
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If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".
He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.  |
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Interesting question that being in a lot more questions.
While many believe that our consciousness is developed and therefore will ultimately die with us, Carl Jung believes we are born with consciousness already there. It’s as we grow we do not develop a consciousness but nearly unlock aspects of it.
With the in mind (pun intended) if this is the case then where do the locked conscious mind come from? Does this explain how some people claim to have lived past lives? Do they have a consciousness that has been past down and unlocked? |
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I think it ceases when you die. It's experimently impossible to prove if it even portrays the reality we see around us.
All the components that make up your body from head to toe can be explained and how your heart pumps to keep them all going but why we have this extra dimension of consciousness scientist's, doctors can't figure out.
There's really only one way to find out if it carries on after your body shuts down.  |
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"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".
He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies. "
This is partly why I feel the way I do. |
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I believe it lasts for a limited amount of time after you die. Seconds - minutes. Dr Greyson reported people experienced "in depth life reviews" which I also believe happens in that split second of living to dead. |
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Consciousness is like the device you are reading this on now. It's the memory (or RAM) holding the words together.
Power off the device, and the RAM goes inert. The brain may hold the info, which the RAM accesses at a later date, but when the brain dies, the imprints on it decay and go. |
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"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".
He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies. "
There is also a sequence of documentaries on Netflix about people who have come back from death. It's pretty interesting |
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Not sure it's definable..
At the end of the film "chappie" dev patel's character tries to upload his consciousness into a robot form, with the assistance of a robot he already created, just before he dies.
Awesome film btw. |
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"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".
He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.
There is also a sequence of documentaries on Netflix about people who have come back from death. It's pretty interesting "
Well speaking as someone who has gone and come back all I remember is absolutely nothing.
One minute running minding my own business then nothing, blackness and coming too in the back of an ambulance after being resuscitated I honestly don't remember anything I don't even remember how I got where I was. when I try and picture everything leading up to the moment and during I just see blackness. |
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We are in the realms of antimony paradoxes here with regards to trying to define consciousness.
How does brain activity = the subjective state of being that a person feels ?
Fundamentally, it's unanswerable.
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We didn’t have any consciousness before we were born, there was no darkness or emptiness, there was just nothing and that’s what I believe it will be like when we die. We won’t be aware that we’re dead we just won’t exist anymore, just like we didn’t exist before we were born. I don’t believe there is anything spiritual about it, it’s just science. |
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"Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?"
The universe existed a long time before there was any consciousness to observe it. |
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"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?"
I've been not conscious a few times, through anasthaesia or epilepsy and it was like my consciousness had been switched off for the duration. So if you die your consciousness moves elsewhere but if your just not in a state of consciousness, it's in some sort of limbo?
You get one life, enjoy it, don't hurt anyone else. Don't be scared of death, it can't hurt you. You can't feel it. |
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We are a biological construct that carries the holographic construction of our memories. These memories last, in ourselves, for a finite time, but these memories can be passed on to others … a form of immortality if you will.
Anyway, with that I shall wish you all good night
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"Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?"
Very point of thought!!!
How can so much very detail ever exist
Even our very own form??
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"Consciousness is energy focused and structured, you cannot destroy energy, but energy can be dissipated and reformed elsewhere.
When you die, you wont remember anything of your current life, exactly like you cannot remember anything before you were born.
But there is somethong else on the other side, it doesnt just go black, imagining "nothingness" is possible, cos even a black void is still something, a black void, a space, nothingness is spaceless. So there is definitely something on the other side.
Is it a new life? Is it paradise? Nobody truly knows whats in store for us when we die hntil we all eventually experience it."
Well put.
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"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?
Does it exist?
Do you exist? Do you have a sense of self? If so you are conscious."
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"Consciousness or your soul? I believe we have a soul, and it lives on.  "
Yes iam with you on that. The soul lives on . The body rots and decays away. It is only a shell. |
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"Consciousness or your soul? I believe we have a soul, and it lives on.
Yes iam with you on that. The soul lives on . The body rots and decays away. It is only a shell. "
Where does the soul live? |
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"Isn’t it a state of mind…. ?"
If you asked someone ‘what’s your current state of mind’ and that person replied ‘consciousness’ would you think that was a valid answer? |
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"We didn’t have any consciousness before we were born, there was no darkness or emptiness, there was just nothing and that’s what I believe it will be like when we die. We won’t be aware that we’re dead we just won’t exist anymore, just like we didn’t exist before we were born. I don’t believe there is anything spiritual about it, it’s just science. "
How do you know there was no consciousness before we were born? Because you can't remember it?
I can't remember things that happened a few years ago but they definitely did. |
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Consciousness is only known to be a function of a physical brain. When the brain dies, so does consciousness. It may be comforting to think of something living on after death but I see no reason to think anything does and I do see reasons to think it doesn't. Luke |
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I heard a definition of it during my philosophy degree (ages ago) it stayed with me. The professor defined it as this: picture yourself in a room with multiple doors but no windows. People and things enter the room and leave, sometimes staying a time sometimes leaving quickly. Some are so quick you only hear the door open and another close others stay and make the room feel cramped or more comfortable. |
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"Consciousness is freedom.
Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?
Because their "freedom" is too awful to contemplate
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That's only my experience of the very few people I know who do that on a regular basis. |
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