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Originally Posted by Thor
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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Yeah totally, I'm not saying it's not far-fetched. I guess I just take issue with the word supernatural. It implies that something "magical" has to happen. In my thought process, things like memories and experiences are all stored somewhere. You say those impulses fade after death, well fade into what? It's energy, it has to go somewhere and do something. Maybe it just gets burnt off as heat. But if those impulses somehow remain as they were in some form of an energy ball or whatever, couldn't "afterlife" just be us stuck in our own conciousness for eternity?
I think conversations about a potential afterlife can have a base in science and don't need Heaven's Gates or angels or whatever to exist in order for the energy of our mind be conserved in some way.
Anyways this is the science thread so I won't bog it down. Continue on! I like this thread.