In Greek mythology, Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death) were twin brothers. The Greeks were onto something. — TheMadFool
You don't know that it doesn't make contact, communicate and interact. For example, inspiration, artistic, scientific, or religious, may partly come from disembodied souls. — Apollodorus
That question is based on the unproven assumption that consciousness can't exist independently of a physical body. Does a body at rest cease to be a body? Disembodied consciousness may perfectly well experience states of rest or sleep, after which it is reborn into a new body and forgets its previous existence.
Besides, consciousness after death is said to inhabit a body (called ochema in Platonism) that is similar to the physical one but made of a more subtle form of substance.
According to Ian Stevenson children sometimes seem to remember aspects of former lives for a few years until memories fade away and the child's consciousness becomes fully integrated with its new existence. — Apollodorus
Unless I'm missing something else, this is confused, Fool. "An electrical energy pattern" IS "a physical pattern". — 180 Proof
Yes. The 'connectome' is the target. — 180 Proof
nonreductive physicalism — 180 Proof
This sounds like some sort of mysticism rather than Philosophical topics? — Corvus
It may sound like that to you. Stevenson and others like him regard themselves as scientists. — Apollodorus
But scientific knowledge needs concrete evidence and proof on their theories. — Corvus
"The pattern", whatever else it may be or however it is mathematized, affects and is affected by physical systems and so, to that degree, must also be physica — 180 Proof
platonic — 180 Proof
I am interested in other people's thoughts on the question of what becomes of consciousness at death? — Jack Cummins
wishful thinking. — Jack Cummins
A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one, and the real one — J P Morgan
resurfaced — Jack Cummins
does being "conscious without being conscious of something" ring any bells? — TheMadFool
It would depend on what you mean by "something". According to Plotinus, the reasoning part of us (to dianoetikon) is conscious of objects perceived by means of the sense faculties. In contrast, the Intellect or spirit proper (Nous) is conscious of itself. In other words, the highest form of consciousness is self-reflective intelligence whose essential activity is reflexive. Therefore, self-consciousness or consciousness of oneself as consciousness, is the knowledge that philosophy ultimately aims to attain. — Apollodorus
you raise such interesting questions — Jack Cummins
my mind exploding — Jack Cummins
First thing that must happen is the mind "set" must contain something, anything except itself of course. — TheMadFool
So, I am interested in other people's thoughts on the question of what becomes of consciousness at death? — Jack Cummins
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