Your lack of imagination is your defeat

[Little Rik]

-as an example of the above.

I don't think that consciousness persists after the dissolution of the brain or in absence of the body any more than I think digital computation is possible in the absence of a digital machine, regardless of of whether or not energy - which also forms the motus of digital computation- can be destroyed.

Is consciousness energy...trivially, yes.  But that's not a complete or adequate description of consciousness from my perspective any more than "energy" is a complete description of computation.  More like, "energy flowing through a particular substrate of specific architecture".    Take away the substrate, you don't have consciousness.  Take away the architecture, you don;t have consciousness.  Take away the energy, you don't have consciousness.  If you leave just that last one, however, without the others...you -still- don't have consciousness.  It's not -just- energy floating around without structure or substrate..if it were, it's not inconceivable that a power line...... or just the static in the air.... would suddenly begin to quote shakespeare.......which it doesn't...as I'm sure I won't have to argue with anyone.

If you want a human consciousness, you need a human machine.  We have never observed a human consciousness (or any consciousness) in the absence of just such a machine. It not "out there" somewhere, independently...or at least..if it it is, no one can show it to be....while it;s trivially easy to show that it;s "in here" with reference to human machines.

A lot of confused guessing Ritmo but after that it make sense to say .........If you want a human consciousness, you need a human machine.....
A piece of puzzle will have to end up in the correct jigsaw puzzle.
No question about it.

The level consciousness determine where such a consciousness will end up.
A latent consciousness will form a rock.
A little level of consciousness a plant or tree.
More consciousness an animal.
A lot more an human body.
And total consciousness will merge in the ocean supreme consciousness and be God once again.

Nothing new about it Rit.