(June 28, 2013 at 8:20 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: I'd go further than "probably not".
Everything that I believe is defined by the phrase "probably", or "Probably not". There is no reason to believe from the evidence given that the "mind" will survive death. So I don't believe it. But, the fact remains that we don't understand what consciousness even is, let alone understand the process. There are hypothesis, definitely.
But, other things are understood, like how memories, genetics, environmental properties, genetics, etc, define your personality and they way your "awareness" is received. And those things do die at death, so even if consciousness is discovered to be a medium outside the body, you need the physical for the entire mind to survive. Without the brain there is nothing to process an awareness, and so the "mind" cannot survive after death.
