(August 8, 2015 at 3:33 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: The stuff that makes up your mind still exists when you die, but it is no longer your mind, just as that apple you ate earlier was not a part of your mind before you ate it and your body processed it.the stuff that makes up your mind is matter, not energy, and that energy that caused your brain to function will always exist.
(August 8, 2015 at 3:33 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: If a body has not fully died yet, a person can sometimes be resuscitated. But once the brain deteriorates too much, it cannot "hold a charge" (to use your battery metaphor). A battery, too, can be too degraded to be able to be recharged.
Fully died? I don't think there is a such thing as "halfway dead" either there is life or there isn't.