Energy created nor destroyed.

[uniquepegasister]

You all make excellent points and most are along the lines of what i thought. I just find the theory interesting and a bit funny considering the religious person who brought it up.

[Huggy Bear]

[uniquepegasister]

Take a stick of dynamite.  Light the fuse.  Run away.  After the tremendous bang, go back and look for your stick of dynamite.

Boru

First of all that everything that comprised that stick of dynamite still exists, it's just in a different form. Matter and energy both have mass, which means if the dynamite was converted into energy, it still physically exists because energy has mass.

When you die, the chemical energy that your brain and body use simply dissipates. It is not destroyed, rather, it is passed on to the various small lifeforms that help our body decompose.
*edit*
I should add that for a bunch of so-called "critical thinkers" none of you questioned what Boru said (matter / energy cannot be created or destroyed remember), just blindly gave kudos, which shows you'll blindly follow any doctrine, as long as it's against religion...

A battery supplies energy chemically, but when a battery "dies" it can be recharged, why can't you then do the same for a human body?

I very much like the idea you have there but it's a bit on the Frankenstein side. After all thats what Frankenstein was. He was a reanimated body compromised of different parts. However, i think it would be better that the body was originally intact.

[Longhorn]

@Huggy

It does. Right here:

[He] draws attention to the fact that Reynolds could only give a report of her experience some time after she recovered from the anesthetic as she was still intubated when she regained consciousness. This would provide some opportunity for her to associate and elaborate upon the sensations she had experienced during the operation with her existing knowledge and expectations. The fact that she described the small pneumatic saw used in the operation also does not impress Woerlee. As he points out, the saw sounds like and, to some extent, looks like the pneumatic drills used by dentists.

Bold by me

And this doesn't show consciousness outside of a brain. Clearly, a brain was involved -_-

[uniquepegasister]

Is the OP Little Rik in another guise? The style of writing and the spellings (not to mention the metaphysical Woo content) seems suspiciously the same.

I doubt it.
He doesn't post every sentence in a new line.
Like this.
Which gets really annoying.
Also, there's no massive overuse of smilies, for example no   or   or

I do apologize for the odd sentence structure and spelling. Mind you it was nearly 2 in the morning when i posted the forum.

[Huggy Bear]

[Excited Penguin]

[Excited Penguin]

OP, what do the laws of energy conservation have to do with the concept of a soul? How does your friend make that connection?

[Lucanus]

[Huggy Bear]