Trascending through time

[vulcanlogician]

1)  After millions years that homo sapient exist none has so far produced any evidence that when we die also the consciousness dies.  
2) NDEs are clear evidence that when the body dies the consciousness leaves the body and lives on.

First off, let me say that I am agnostic about any sort of afterlife or continued existence after death. Nobody really knows. But oblivion (ie. no consciousness after death) seems to be the most plausible conclusion. Your two arguments do little to budge me from that position.

1. The contents of consciousness are causally reducible to neuronal activity. So that alone gives us some reason to believe that when we, our consciousness also ceases. There may also be a burden of proof issue here. Do I need to prove that it dies? Or do you need to prove that it keeps existing?

2. NDEs are just that. Things that living organisms experience when they are near death. In most cases, it would be unethical to measure brain activity on someone near the brink of death (there are more pressing matters to which physicians must attend) but I did manage to find an article suggesting a possible correlation between EEG readings and NDEs. This suggests that an NDE is something related to activity in the still living brain-- not the experience of a disembodied soul.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bra...l_surge_in