LIfe After Death

No.

What we are are our consciousness,when the brain dies that consciousness dies with it. But if were able to download that consciousness to a floppy disk and upload it into a synthetic brain connected to a prosthetic body, than we could possibly live forever.

Of course the Earth is already over populated as it is so everyone living forever would cause it`s own issues.

In fact a prosthetic body is not even that important. You could upload your consciousness into a digital matrix like world and exist purely as 0s and 1s forever (or until someone pulls the plug or the electricity bill becomes too expensive):p
 
genan a part of what you said is correct, we are indeed consciousness. However what dies is our vehicle of transport which is our body. Our consciousness/soul whatever you want to call it continues its journey to the path of enlightenment.

What you said about the digital matrix also has some truth to it as all our memories are stored somewhere in the ethos, access is available if you really want to know the truth. This is life is about finding out who you really are and what the ultimate truth is. Past life meditation anyone?

As Cosimo said one becomes part of the universe because one is all and all is one.
 
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I certainly hope not - The sister in law is a total bitch while alive-- I would hate to see her come back from dead. Mind you if I have my way she will be burnt twice - up here and down there.

Dave
 
dacads said:
genan a part of what you said is correct, we are indeed consciousness. However what dies is our vehicle of transport which is our body. Our consciousness/soul whatever you want to call it continues its journey to the path of enlightenment.
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nah he was spot on tbh... once the life support mechanism for your brain has gone then that's it.... your consciousness is that brain activity... unless we come up with a way to transfer our conciousness as the other poster pointed out then its gone when your body fails and dies - sad thing is we might well be one of the last generation for which this isn't a possibility.... technology progressing as it is future generations might be able to sustain their consciousness beyond their physical bodies...
 
When we die, our bodies decay, and the atoms and molecules that made up that body find their way back into the food chain. The resources of your body are recycled and re-purposed and become part of future generations of life. I find this prospect far more comforting than false notions of heaven and transcendence. If you're very lucky, when you die, doctors will be able to salvage entire organs to extend the life of another human being.
 
dowie said:
nah he was spot on tbh... once the life support mechanism for your brain has gone then that's it.... your consciousness is that brain activity... unless we come up with a way to transfer our conciousness as the other poster pointed out then its gone when your body fails and dies - sad thing is we might well be one of the last generation for which this isn't a possibility.... technology progressing as it is future generations might be able to sustain their consciousness beyond their physical bodies...
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Without getting too deep I would argue what drives our consciousness and/or personality?
 
Philtor said:
Without getting too deep I would argue what drives our consciousness and/or personality?
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The same thing which causes your muscles to get bigger if you work out, adaptation.

Your brain is highly adaptable to your surroundings, ie. the data it receives by way of five senses, especially when you're immature. Your current personality is merely a reflection of what your brain has experienced in the past and how your brain has developed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain_development_timeline
 
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I saw a line of corpses old,
Dead with diseases manifold,
Solemnly dancing'neath the moon.

Their perish'd limbs moved to the tune
Of some worm-orchestra unheard--
A sight enormously absurd.

First in the valse, with fishy eye
Tripped something dead of leprosy,
All silvery like a virgin's breast.

A buried glutton danced with zest,
All greenish and all dropsical,
Like a deform'd and vital ball.

The third was very beautiful,
Of charming small-pox sorelets full;
A small-pox ending, corpse, was thine.

There danced one in that naked line
Whose corpse was rotten with much love;
I wish the white worms joy thereof.

A suicidal corpse came next,
Who wish'd to illustrate the text:
--better to be chewed than to chew;

So he became a worm-ragout
And cholera-corpses weirdly black
Carrying their dead flesh like a sack,

Vals'd graceful beneath the sun.
Blue fever, and Consumption,
And hollow-pated lunacy.

Bowed, in that dance with courtesy
Cover'd with sores from foot to head,
Like flowers in a flower-bed,

Strange plagues all beautifully green
Went pirouetting through the scene;
And shrunken corpses dead of Age.--

These things went dancing o'er the stage.
Smelling of graves and worm-tooth scars,--
Death's musty-meated avatars."
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Danse Macabre - David Park Barnitz
 
asim18 said:
The same thing which causes your muscles to get bigger if you work out, adaptation.

Your brain is highly adaptable to your surroundings, ie. the data it receives by way of five senses, especially when you're immature. Your current personality is merely a reflection of what your brain has experienced in the past.
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The brain is the most complex computer that ever existed. I'm convinced that some of the so called mysteries will never be solved as it cannot be explained. For me the soul is a real thing.
 
I like to believe there's something so that the idea of death doesn't scare me.

If I get there and there is nothing, tough luck, I wont care, I'll be dead.
 
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