Consciousness: Is it seperate from the human body?

[genkaus]

Lately I've been fascinated with the idea of consciousness. I've been reading a bit on quantum physics,

Wrong place to look for consciousness.

and have come to the idea that the conscious state of mind is completely seperate from the brain.

In the same way that software is separate from hardware.

1) I feel as though I am not my body. For instance, if I cut my own hand off, my hand is no longer me, I'm still in the larger portion of my own body (of course I know that's mainly because my brain is still communicating with the rest of my body).

You are not your body. You are a process occurring in a specific part of your body (the brain).

2) It takes the brain roughly 80 milliseconds to process new stimulus, including getting that information to the brain via the nervous system. Which introduces the idea that time may not exist if it is all according to how fast the brain can process whats going on.

So, a temporal attribute of mental process indicated that the mental process is atemporal? Really?

3) Finally, there are all types of optical, tactile and auditory illusions that can play tricks on the brain. We can only perceive our world through our senses, even certain animals can percieve colors invisible to the naked eye. Which, too me, all says that the brain is a magnificent instrument, but is not perfect.

And what does perfection have to do with it?

And instruments aren't autonomous.

Not yet.

What do you all think?

That you've been listening to Deepak Chopra.

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But when someone dies, their body is left behind, still bound by the laws of gravity and of the universe, but the person is no longer the person who was alive. A dead person is no longer conscious, so where did that consciousness go?

Where does the flame go when you blow out the candle? To the Great Fire in the Sky?

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We were never really born and we cannot really die, the mind body organism dies and is born, but we are not the mind body organism. When I say we, I mean we as one, so its not really plural, even to say that we are one isn't correct, for that makes it sound like there is more than one. Like our lungs, they don't really just stop in our bodies, they extend outward, they are one with the tree's where the oxygen comes from, the tree's are one with the sun where they get their sunlight to be able to produce oxygen, and so it goes on and on right back to the so called beginning, or the big bang, yes its all One.

LSD? Why, thank you. I'll have the stuff he's on.