Does the mind survive death?

[Angrboda]

What about our life energy when we die where does it go?

Vast majority of the energy that is you, say 99%+, is in the form of the mass of the protons and neutrons that make you up. A small minority, say 0.9999%, is in the form of nuclear energy that comes from the arrangement of protons, neutrons and electrons into atoms of different elements in your body, such as oxygen, hydrogen, etc. The almost infinitesimal remaining portion, say 0.0001%, is chemical energy that comes from the arrangement of atoms into molecules.

Based on all we know about biology, physics, and chemistry, everything that the normal person might consider to his/her essence - the consciousness, the thoughts, the memories, the feelings, are but a small portion of the biological processes powered and controlled by just a very tiny fraction of that infinitesimal remaining portion that is chemical energy - a very tiny fraction of 0.0001%.

So, when you die, you protons and neutrons couldn't care less. None of them will change in the slightest way to mark the occassion. So 99% of your energy thus goes on exactly as if you never even existed.

Your atoms couldn't care less either, unless you by chance step into the path of very powerful neutron beams in your dying mement, in which case one in a quintillion atom in your body might change configuration and gain or release energy. But to a precision of 8 or 10 decimals, your atoms won't care about whether you live or die either. So the 0.9999% of your energy also goes on exactly as it did before, or so close as to make no difference.

The only thing that would go on with any change at all, is the infinitesimal fraction of your energy that is chemical in nature. Where does it go? Well, it goes no where. It is still all there. The only difference is any moderating and governing effect of your biological metabolic process on the extraction and use of this energy, now no longer function. So the existing energy will now be released or utilized in a slightly different way as you decay, and your chemicals either undergo spontaenous chemical reaction, or are taken up by other organisms to come to be regulated and governed by their biological metabolic process, instead of yours.


So is that clear? You stop. Your energy goes on. You are not your energy.