what do you think happens to your consciousness after death?

Some people in coma still dream and technically you are conscious. well i am an atheist but i find it hard to see that death is just an end. i dont believe in god or a creator but i do think there is more to our consciousness. maybe we will enter a dream-like state for ever and eventually it becomes your reality. no matter how hard you try, you cant remember how a dream begins. think about it. you remember your dreams but you cant remember how it began. maybe thats what will happen to your conciousness. you forget how you entered the dream like state and then that becomes your reality and the cycle continues. but i can see there are alot flaws in that. maybe you become a part of the universe. your conciousness endlessly roams the universe, and beyond. or well, maybe you enter the 4th, 5th and other dimensions. maybe this body you are in is holding your conciousness from going into the 4th dimension. what do you think happens to your consciousness after death?

Ever been knocked out? That.

Returns do the main fraim for the next simulation or is deleted.

Ever been knocked out? That.

br0kenrabbit

That's what I suspect too.

Nothing. Consciousness is the result of the functional operation of our bodies' biological processes, when those processes cease so does consciousness. I do believe in a sort of eternal property of the matter which constitutes us, since it can neither be created nor destroyed, but I don't believe our consciousness survives, just that what we are physically will someday be a part of many different objects in the physical world.

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

konvikt_17

how do you know there was nothing before birth when you cant even remember the day you were born. infact you cant even remember when you were less than a year old.

[QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

sideskull

how do you know there was nothing before birth when you cant even remember the day you were born. infact you cant even remember when you were less than a year old.

well i doubt i had any concious activity before i was born. you know because i wasnt born yet.

I hope there is a little more, but the ending of consciousness after death seems like the most rational scenario.

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

konvikt_17

I also think this is what happens, which scares me sometimes when I think about that concept, I dont want to die,

when I die it's pretty much like I never existed, I'm ...gone, just like that, everything I ever did, experienced, my memories ...gone,

what a cruel fate, and we have to live knowing that death is inevitable, oh well, kinda sucks, but hopefully I'm wrong

[QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

sideskull

how do you know there was nothing before birth when you cant even remember the day you were born. infact you cant even remember when you were less than a year old.

From her perspective there was nothign before she was born. It's oblivion.

Seems pretty straightforward. Consiousness is a biproduct of the complex network of neurons in our brains. When those connecitons break down - we cease to exist (or rather our conciousness does).

There is 0 reason to believe otherwise.

[QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

ethanradd

I also think this is what happens, which scares me sometimes when I think about that concept, I dont want to die,

when I die it's pretty much like I never existed, I'm ...gone, just like that, everything I ever did, experienced, my memories ...gone,

what a cruel fate, and we have to live knowing that death is inevitable, oh well, kinda sucks, but hopefully I'm wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw

What if you only had a 5 year life span?

[QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

it just ceases to exist.

nothingness, just like before you were born.

ethanradd

I also think this is what happens, which scares me sometimes when I think about that concept, I dont want to die,

when I die it's pretty much like I never existed, I'm ...gone, just like that, everything I ever did, experienced, my memories ...gone,

what a cruel fate, and we have to live knowing that death is inevitable, oh well, kinda sucks, but hopefully I'm wrong

It's not that cruel when you think of it in a way that many scientists do. Richard Dawkings had a quote

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

Nobody knows. When you pass out your brain is still working, when you die who knows what might happen, I don't want a start a religion war.

Cousciousness is you, it's your self awareness. I think after you die it just goes on, it's who you are, it's pure energy. It's a part of your soul.

Just nothing most likely. I would like to believe you enter deep connection to the universe and know all until you enter another stage of something...but that is very doubtful. Guess we will all just have to wait to find out.

does this mean i will be in a different body with a different conciousness? i mean really? what is the difference between me and you. the only thing that makes you is your memories. if i wipe that clean, your conciousness is once again empty. you are not yourself anymore. so then i could be you because you are now a blank slate. but in order for that to happen, i must wipe my memories clean. so we are both just pure conciousness. think about it. conciousness is shaped by memories. once that is erased, me and you become the same conciousness. but the only problem is, time. within less than a second you are you and i am me. but if we were to freeze time so no more memories are made. and we are both clean slates with no recolection of anything, not even ourselves. whats dividing us? nothing. we are one.

does this mean i will be in a different body with a different conciousness? i mean really? what is the difference between me and you. the only thing that makes you is your memories. if i wipe that clean, your conciousness is once again empty. you are not yourself anymore. so then i could be you because you are now a blank slate. but in order for that to happen, i must wipe my memories clean. so we are both just pure conciousness. think about it. conciousness is shaped by memories. once that is erased, me and you become the same conciousness. but the only problem is, time. within less than a second you are you and i am me. but if we were to freeze time so no more memories are made. and we are both clean slates with no recolection of anything, not even ourselves. whats dividing us? nothing. we are one.

sideskull

There is more to it than memories. There have been people that lost all memories but they still retain their sense of self, they may not know who they are exactly but they are self aware.