Question by Narathzul Arantheal: Why would you think consciousness can survive death?
All the evidence we have points to your consciousness being tied to the functioning of your brain. A damaged brain doesn’t lead to a damaged consciousness for no reason.

After death you don’t have a brain, so all the evidence we have suggests there will be no consciousness either. Could that be wrong? It could. But is it likely to be wrong? Heck no.

Under these circumstances wouldn’t we need something pretty solid to believe the consciousness can survive death?
zIp-E – Not familiar with those but I don’t see what’s so incredible about animals’ memories surviving the loss of some brain parts. Memories aren’t equally housed everywhere, brain regions are at least partly specialized. Removing a part that controls, say, smell will lose you your sense of smell it won’t make you lose your memories.
zIp-E – Sure, I’ll sign the idea that we don’t understand everything about memories yet. Still all the evidence we have points to your consciousness being inseparably tied to the functioning of your brain. Meaning believing it will survive death is pretty far-fetched and we’d need strong evidence to claim that.

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Answer by Mackey
I do not think that. I think it is rather silly notion.

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