Consciousness after we die
If our conscious experience depends on the brain, then there cannot be an afterlife.
When the brain is gone, the mind is gone--but it's not. It's that simple. Even when the brain seems to be virtually disabled people are still having "mind activities" the Mind would seem to be irreducible
Most western scientists assume consciousness is produced in some way by the brain, such as taking of illicit substances to alter the mind. Then there would be absence of consciousness. However, the link between the brain and consciousness can be measured by electricity during certain kinds of mental tasks. We can stimulate parts of the brain and record what experiences result and can remove parts of the brain and observe the effects of behavior.
As evidence would suggest that the brain is indeed involved in thinking, perception, and memories, but it does not suggest that the brain causes those thoughts and memories. And as you listen to someone speak there is electric activity in the temporal lobe of your brain, but does that mean your brain, suggests that your temporal lobe is producing the sound of that someone's voice? Not at all. All the studies showing brain areas associated with different mental functions only show correlation, not causation.
We existed prior to incarnation. The brain functions as a receiver. It blocks, filters, and parses information that is usable. Whereas consciousness is not confined to the brain. We process frequency into images and experience, no different than the worlds we visit in dreams. No lips live in dreams. Its all telepathy.
Therefore, there is strong evidence that thoughts, perception and memories could take place in a special compartment called consciousness, somewhere separate from the brain, but are then received and processed by the brain. When we measure the electrical activity inside your cell phone we would show certain parts of the cellphone were involved in you hearing the message, but we would not be proving that the message is coming from your cell phone, any more than we can prove thoughts originate within our brain. The brain is composed of millions of neurons, but a single neuron cannot formulate a thought, a single neuron cannot feel angry or cold.
It would be more accurate to state that the mind hosts the consciousness which carries believes such as rules and regulatory governance of how we operate while the brain is the processor. The consciousness is a library of "run" commands with instructions as to what to do with information received (in computer terms). Therefore consciousness is programmable, and is best to impregnate those desirable instructions and formulations during our living years.
The brain, under extraordinary circumstances, would unlink from consciousness and the consciousness will function without the mediation of the physical brain. There are reliable and reproducible evidence, such as:
- People whose brains have been deteriorating for years suddenly think clearly on their death beds.
- People who function normally and sometimes with high intelligence who have virtually no brain tissues
- People who, during a near death experience, think more clearly than ever and would be impressed with supernatural insights into matters though their brains show no activities
- Young children that speaks of their past lives with accurate details even before they can walk or talk properly
So upon death the brain dies as it is physical matter, the soul would split from the body and the consciousness takes over and guides the soul to the next part of the journey as the consciousness is beyond the brain. And depending on what you have coded into your consciousness--your religious believes on death and beyond--you would manifest heaven or hell. So the tapestry of memories you have woven into your consciousness plays a big part of what is next for you. And when you move on from the "in between life" to the After Life you would phase out the consciousness and bring in subconscious.
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