Theories

Scientific theory of life after death

An older alternative name for the theory. It emphasizes that life-after-death is a scientific question, not a religious one.

What is a scientific theory of life after death? Many scientists and philosophers and non religious people in general do not believe that a scientific theory of life after death is possible. If it is imagined, it is with technology's ability to revive or reanimate a dead person's body. This is usually almost good enough for the individual's that want life after death for this previously dead person. But they also want the person to look and act as good or better than they did before. They do not want this revived person to look and act like a monster. This is life after death for others but it is not necessarily life after death for the dead person himself. What is required for the individual himself to be alive after death? The dead person needs to act like he is alive for others but there is one more thing that the person needs and that is being conscious. Being dead means not being conscious which means the body is not producing consciousness any more. Being alive again from ones own perspective means being conscious again. It does not matter what you are conscious of as long as you are conscious of something again. There are levels of conscious existence some levels are just barely conscious like first waking up from an operation being very groggy. This is a form of life after death but not a very high quality of life after death. If you die and come back to life in a coma that you never recover from this may be called life after death but it is not conscious life after death and this individual (you) would never be aware of being alive again.

A scientific theory of life after death can be confusing just getting the definition correct. We define life after death as being the dead person as being conscious again. You know if you are conscious right now -- maybe. If you are conscious now then you have some awareness of what it means to be conscious. If you fear death then you fear not being conscious again or having a consciousness that is not to your liking (like being in hell or experiencing other bad situations).

Awaretheory is developing a very complex scientific theory of life after death. Why is awaretheory a scientific theory? It is not based on any supernatural concepts like souls, gods, or reincarnation. It is based on and consistent and coherent with science and mathematics. Often the more that we know scientifically the more we find our common sense beliefs do not match reality. In some ways our common sense beliefs about death do not match reality either. One of these beliefs is that the body that died has to be used to create a resurrection of the individual. It does not seem to matter if it is god created or technology produced resurrection many believe that you have to have the same body. If not a body then there has to be some thing else like a spirit or soul that ties two different bodies together. The ideas about you needing to experience consciousness to exist is lost in body and or soul talk. To make the ideas of a soul and, or body important you have to tie them together with consciousness. Not only do you have to tie them together with consciousness but to the original experiencing that consciousness. For the original person to have life after death he has to be conscious again. How is this possible? What produced the original's consciousness in the first place? And how can you recreate this situation again? If you do will it actually be a consciousness that the original person experiences again?

If we could see the consciousness of others with scientific certainty it would make the task of understanding life after death much easier. Consciousness is strange in the sense that it is something we know intimately but we have to guess that others are conscious and what they are conscious of. This is why a scientific theory of life after death is not easy to formulate. Science has determined that it is the functioning of the brian that produces consciousness. Science has also shown that the brain is extremely complex with billions of neurons, and trillions of connections with an enumerable amount of possible variations in structure and functioning. When the structure and functioning of the brain is different enough it produces variations in consciousness. Small changes in the structure of the brain like a small moment of a single synapse usually does not effect or change the consciousness that a brain produces over time. If all of the changes that the brain can have without changing the consciousness that it produces is summed up it is an extremely large number but compared with all the possible changes that the brain can have it is only a small percentage of the total. The human brain has the ability to produce every human consciousness that has ever existed and many of the human consciousnesses that can ever exist. We do not have good reasons to believe that if the brain, when it had a certain structure and functions in a certain way over time, producing a specific consciousness, would not produce the same consciousness with the same structure and functioning over time. Combing these above scientific concepts consciousness is duplicatable with out exact duplication of the structure and functioning of the brain.

What is more important over all is that with your current body there are all sorts of ways that your brain can function at any one time but it only functions in one way producing one consciousness at a time (usually). But if it would have functioned differently enough it would have produced a different consciousness. It is easy to imagine all sorts of variations to your life created by your own initiative or caused by events beyond your control. Each imagined variation in your conscious life corresponds to a variation to the structure and functioning to the your brain. The brain can produce an extremely large amount of different consciousnesses.

Everyone's conscious existence is not tied to a specific body but to an extremely large grouping of structures and functioning of matter over time (neuropaths) that many can be produced in human brains. Any time any of these structure and functioning of matter occur you expereince the conscious that they produce. They can exist at the same time which means that the belief that we are tied to a singular soul or body is false. It turns out that we are much more consciously than what we are at this moment in time.

See also: Scientific theory of immortality, Universal immortality

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