Perhaps consciousness continues after physical death. If so, what then? Serious, considered responses only please.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The consciousness of any particular individual cannot continue to exist without a brain to 'cause' it.
Once we're dead we don't know we are because there is no one there anymore or anywhere to know anything.
You could say that this is only an assumption on my part but I"m 73 years old now and I'm very comfortable with this assumption.
Skyfacer
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Oct 20, 2018
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Interesting. Not aware of an empirical study which ties consciousness intrinsically to the brain other than the mechanism which drives the machine. Please let me know so that I can have s look at the studies. Thanks
Hi again Geoffrey. And I"m not aware of any empirical study that suggests that consciousness can exist separate from the brain. Please let me know if there is such a study and I'll have a read of it. And we're not 'talking computers' here either. Thanks.
@Geoffrey51 , how do you define death? I consider the final end of consciousness "death".
DoDapper
Level 8
Oct 20, 2018
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When the physical form can be declared clinically dead
what @Cutiebeauty said
coralisthree
Level 8
Oct 20, 2018
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Everyone doesn't call me Kate lol
@Cutiebeauty fixed!
@Cutiebeauty - I know the feeling. It's like how everyone doesn't call me "Oh Hell fuck please no", but I respond to it anyway.
@DoDapper i call you stuff like that
@coralisthree - Not enough. 
Once the computer is destroyed, you can no longer access the data. Consciousness is gone.
Cutiebeauty
Level 9
Oct 20, 2018
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You can if it was backed up!?
@Geoffrey51 notice I said destroyed ?
@Cutiebeauty you say the computer. The backup up to cloud or external hard drive or USB would still have the data. Then you just get another computer, upload the data and carry on where you left off!
i have carefully considered this, not right now, since this is not the first time anyone has asked this, and i cannot proceed because i disagree that perhaps consciousness continues after physical death. so the "if so" part makes no sense to me. i believe it is NOT so. but imagining for a moment that it WAS so, the "what then" is awfully general too. it is hard to give a serious response to a question that is based on a false statement.
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genessa
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Oct 20, 2018
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A particular body dies, and no longer exhibits consciousness or deep awareness, but consciousness continues through other people and other organisms. IMO the body never was consciously aware in the first place. How could a hunk of meat be conscious just through the firing of neurons?
We often take our conscious awareness for granted, but awareness is truly a profound impenetrable mystery and a precious gift of enormous value. There is nothing much of value to a particular body with its thoughts and memories, certainly nothing deserving of immortality, but conscious awareness lives forever. Awareness creates the sensation of time.
Our true Self is in “heaven” right now and always will be. The sensation of selfhood as a separate individual is just a temporary illusion.
WilliamFleming
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Oct 19, 2018
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