Does the mind survive death?

[bennyboy]

The logic makes for an easy answer: the mind is only associated with a living brain, unconscious or not. We do not look at rocks and from our studies find that, "oh! This rock has a mind!". Clearly. When the brain is no longer alive, no longer processing, it is safe to say that a mind that was dependent on the brain no longer processes: it ceases to continue.

There are no studies which show which objects, brain, rock or otherwise, possess the quality of mind (i.e. sentience). What we have is the fact that we only know about mind through reports of language-capable organisms, and the set of such organisms consists of exactly one type of animal. But the fact that other things SAY they are sentient isn't really sufficient proof to prove that they are, IMO.

Maybe all matter contains a kind of atomic sentience, along with its other properties. This would explain how a mechanical structure, the brain, can magically create something not mechanical-- subjective experience: it doesn't.

But unfortunately my attempts to interview rocks only result in meaningful conversations when my own brain and mind are altered in interesting ways.