Life After Death Is Impossible, Says Scientist

[Brian37]

Doesn't square with it lol?

IIT provides a mathematical recipe for consciousness. They literally give you the instructions on how to build a minimally conscious system. And describe which simple systems could be minimally conscious, and which complex systems remain unconscious (Oizumi, 2014). Far from being incompatible with the possibility of resurrections, IIT tells us what exactly needs to be done to a brain to reconstruct consciousness—integrate its information.

Reference: Oizumi M, Albantakis L& Tononi G. (2014). From the phenomenology to the mechanisms of consciousness: Integrated information theory 3.0. PLoS Computational Biology 10(5). 

Um no. Evolution and DNA lead to consciousness. Consciousness is not a prerequisite for evolution to occur. Life is a result of amino acids. But life does not require a human like or super cognition as a starting point to cause evolution. 

Consciousness is an emergent property of evolution, not a starting point. 

"Instructions" in science when referring to DNA isn't like say a drill instructor giving recruits orders. "Instructions" when science talks about DNA/RNA is a word denoting observations that can lead the observer to expect predictable outcomes in interactions. 

There is absolutely nothing in modern science or our modern understanding of biology that says consciousness survives death. 

I also hate it when si fi fans argue that humans could be part of a giant "simulation". Even this version of "something bigger in the grand scale" fails. It suffers the same problem of infinite regress as the claims of gods of old mythology. There simply is no need to insert a super version of humans in as a cause. If one is to claim  a "super cognition" or a " giant simulation intelligently caused" both would beg the question, what caused that bigger thing, and what caused that bigger thing, and so on and so on and so on.

Human cognition exists because the conditions of our history of our planet, and the extinctions that made way for us to evolve. But we have no cognition as individuals before we are born, and our individual cognition dies with our brain when our brain dies.