What is a god?

[Darwinian]

I will continue to hope this is not all there is. I can't see any harm in that. I'm ok now. Life still goes on. Thanks

I know many physicists that believe that consciousness is distinct from the brain and that once a persons body dies the 'person' somehow carries on existing.

They are all atheist in that they don't believe in a god but the more they look into the strange world of quantum mechanics the more they see these counter intuitive possibilities.

Personally, I have no problem with the concept of the brain hosting the mind rather than creating it and consider consciousness itself to be an integral part of reality.

The problem arises because somehow, religion seems to have the monopoly on the 'afterlife' and once you reject religion you must also reject this.

The more I look into the way reality seems to be working the more I realise that this logical and ordered universe we live in is simply a strange side effect of the real cosmos full of weird, counter intuitive possibilities that depend upon your own perspective and conscious interaction.