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Old 10-14-2014, 02:59 AM   #2180
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Why does life after death have to be supernatural? We and everything around us is energy, as is, presumably, consciousness. When we die something has to happen to that energy. Of course most of it decomposes into nutrients for the earth and whatnot. But with all the electric impulses in our brains, and the bodily activities that occur after death, couldn't it be that our consciousness escapes the body no different than the gases, etc? We should be open to all possibilities and just because it's something we don't fully understand yet, doesn't mean it's rooted in the "supernatural".

I do get your point about the poor journalism though.
Certainly a possibility, albeit unlikely considering there is so far nothing hinting at such a possibility within the realms of observation. The problem is akin to suggesting when a computer dies, the software floats away into a new existence. The brain is our hardware, our consciousness is the software and once one goes so does the other, the faint electrical impulses fade after death and cease, no activity is found and how would anything exist beyond that without a supernatural cause?
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