(October 8, 2017 at 9:32 am)Little Rik Wrote: As far as the body is alive you may well see some degree of consciousness states by using MRI that however stop once the body-brain die because the consciousness is gone and that was the point we were talking about.And at that point, the most logical assumption to make is that the personality, memories and all other distinguishing mental characteristics of that person are also gone.
You keep on beating the NDE / immortal soul drum, a tedious and tuneless dirge based primarily on the scientifically unsupported and unproven nonsense known as spirituality. I've been down that path and rejected it. Rik, I believe that you are deceiving yourself and are wasting the only life you will ever have on a myth. I neither believe you nor envy you nor want to emulate you.
As far as I'm concerned, your belief in life after death is just your ego talking, telling you that *you* need to survive death in order to find meaning in your mortality. I don't feel such a need as that. Any good insights or experiences I might come up with can easily be rediscovered without any causal connection to me, and in fact we all could be re-imagining things that have lived in others' brains at another place and time. That does not mean that we ever were those "others," though.
