What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die?

[Coffee Jesus]

Care to share some examples of people having their hard-drives formatted after some gnarly brain damage?

If by 'hard-drives' formatted, you are implying a mind that is completely erased, that not what I said. I said personality reset.

There are plenty of examples from medical literature. One of the first studied was Phineas P. Gage.

But I have an example in my own family. My uncle's second wife had a concussion that caused bleeding in her frontal lobe. This damage caused her personality to completely change to the point where she is not the same person.

Some of the most interesting cases involve corpus callosotomy surgery for treating epilepsy. This is where the corpus callosum is cut between the 2 hemispheres of the brain. Each hemisphere will have completely different personalities.

There's even cases where one hemi is a theist, the other an atheist. What will happen to a person with this condition after they die?

My initial response expressed the idea that, although the mind deteriorates with the brain, it doesn't follow that the mind will totally disappear with the brain. But I think we can take for granted that whatever would remain of the "mind" (if you can still call it that) would not be you. It would suffer from every brain deficit possible: no memory (amnesia), no sensory awareness (blind, deaf, numb), no emotion (sociopathy, girl with no fear, etc.), possible partitioning (commissurotomy). In short, it won't be you unless your brain is somehow recreated in the future or some other dimension.

Some Jews actually don't believe in an immediate after-life. They believe your body will be resurrected after the apocalypse for the new Jerusalem or something like that.