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

[Coffee Jesus]

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.

There is no "mind" there is just the brain in motion. The combo of our brain and motion is what we falsely call "mind" and what theists stupidly call "soul". Using the word "mind" to me is as stupid as conflating the word "speed" as being as material as the car itself while in motion. "Mind" to me is simply an abstract description of the uniqueness of our personalities. At best one could say "mind" is merely the uniqueness of the way our car speeds. I avoid the word "mind" like the plague because even liberals and atheists woo it up far too much for my taste.

I usually use "mind" to denote phenomenal experience, and it has meaning in that sense, but it's contentious what physical systems this sense of "mind" would refer to.