I am just interested to know why you think that consciousness ceases completely at death. Is this based on the premise that mind is totally dependent on the brain? — Jack Cummins
They had less intellectual debris to face. So their minds made up the missing stuff in the cracks of knowledge, and since the majority of creation thus became the product of their imagination, they saw the world more clearly. Everyone is very clear about the product of their imagination. — god must be atheist
E=mc^2 ... Anyway, the question is incoherent, or is begged, since any "where" (or when) - spacetime - is inseparable from "matter ... energy". To be is to "vibrate, move, change" à la dao. — 180 Proof
↪Athena What IS energy. Math and physics only deals with equivalencies (=). They can never say what it IS. Only WE can say who we ARE. — MondoR
The hard problem of matter calls for non-structural properties, and consciousness is the one phenomenon we know that might meet this need. Consciousness is full of qualitative properties, from the redness of red and the discomfort of hunger to the phenomenology of thought. Such experiences, or “qualia,” may have internal structure, but there is more to them than structure. We know something about what conscious experiences are like in and of themselves, not just how they function and relate to other properties.
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/is-matter-conscious — Nautilus
In simplicity one gains clarity. Complexity clouds the obvious. A idea needs only one sentence. The Internet is a manifestation of junk debris. Better to look at a pond. — MondoR
Complexity clouds the obvious. — MondoR
The Egyptian trinity is more like we are spiritual beings having a human experience. One part dies with the body, one part goes on to be judged and may entire the good life or not, and always the third part returns to the source. — Athena
If we live without being alienated form each other, we start to see the universality of being alive and of being human in relation to other forms of life much more clearly than a person can today in a big house surrounded by material objects that are nonliving. — Garth
the animating force has to be present for life — Jack Cummins
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