Life after death?

[Ksa]

People said the same thing about trains when railways got built "I would never climb on that thing". There was a fear that pregnant women would lose their baby and those concerns were brought forth even by some doctors!

I'll pass just the same. Thanks.

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But to be perfectly clear, I don't see any evidence for continuing consciousness beyond a functioning brain. Brain dead is dead. A backup copy somewhere else is just a copy because so far there's no way to transfer consciousness from one brain to another or into anything else for that matter. Putting the copy in another universe doesn't solve that essential problem.

It's the thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits that misleads you. They have a reciprocal connection with the prefrontal cortex, inducing this sense of "you", by associating the way you feel inside with what you see and hear.

If you don't believe me or don't understand me, just alter the thalamus function temporarily with amphetamines. When you wake up after a day of use and you stand straight in the middle of the bed for 5 minutes, with a strong smell of burnt rubber in your nose, not knowing who you are and where you are, until it all comes back to you 5 minutes later, you will realize the truth:

That there isn't a "you" and that there never was a "you". It's simply an illusion created by your brain to mislead you into thinking you are a whole, a unique person, when in fact you are many things combined that will never make one.