If it goes back to the earth, does this mean the earth has consciousness? Lets say oxygen and food give a mother the energy to create and grow a new baby. How does oxygen and food create consciousness(in the new baby,since the baby is energy), unless it has some form of consciousness to begin with?
2006-07-01 03:19:53 · 13 answers · asked by Jimbo 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The potential energy in a body comes from the mass. Once you are dead, your physical body's still contains the same amount of energy from that mass. The energy is slowly released over time as your body is decomposed. The energy could be used to support the growth of bacteria and fungus that decomposes the flesh. Some very small amount of energy would also be released as heat and perhaps even noise. Energy is not necessarily consciousness. I don't think there is a definitive answer as to where consciousness comes from. It is a mystery- the miracle of life. If a baby does have consciousness to begin with, at what point does that consciousness begin? At conception, or at some point during development? This is what the abortion debate is all about. What if that consciousness exists even before conception? Do you think, perhaps "god" could be the collective consciousness and we are all individual expressions of the collective? Perhaps all forms of life come from a vast consciousness entering and exiting the physical realm which appears to us as birth and death...
2006-07-01 03:31:43 · answer #1 · answered by mhearl74 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That would depend upon whether you define consciousness AS energy- or, is energy consiousness?
Now, that we dont know.
Consciousness is as yet one of them many unexplianed processes of the brain, one that operates on, and requires, energy- but whther it IS just energy is highly doubtful at least in my low-voltage mind.
A car requires gasoline to drive, but is the process of propelling a car just gasoline? No...
Input vs. output are two very different things.
Oxygen and food do NOT create consciousness, the brain does, or the SOUL does, the spirit- again, something our minds are not fully enlightened to even though it partakes in this process everyday.
Place a cup of blood and a piece of bread on the table, and you are NOT looking at consciousness, so, when we die, our body matter turns into MATERIAL FROM WHICH energy is derived by other organisms, and whether these organisms use this energy source for consciousness (be it animals or the earth in general) is dependent on the organism- tree, dog, person- which, or how many of these possess consciences?
And again- input vs. output-- energy does not 'die' simply because it is not alive itself- it merely facilitates life in other things via organic processes.
Keep the variables separated, I suppose...
2006-07-01 04:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by Yentl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great answers. Just to add one more item, in Chemistry, and more in depth, Thermodynamics, when calculating the energy of a system, the "order" of the system is a significant factor in the determination of its energy. The inverse of "order"-meaning disorder, also known as "entropy", decreases as the energy of the system increases. Meaning, that disorder is a lower energy state than order. So, burning your textbooks emits energy by transforming an ordered state to a disordered state. The quotation in thermodynamics is when you store energy "somewhere in the universe, entropy in increasing" is an interesting concept when looking at something like death, where an ordered system like a person is becoming slowly less ordered by decay.
2006-07-01 05:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by bizsmithy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
energy disappears when people died..it is over...effort causes energy..once there is no effort..there would be no energy..energy is not like oxygen that we can breath..unless people decay and petrol is formed after million years..here you can say they are a source of energy... so you cannot say that energy transfer to another body after death because energy is not flying in air..soul return to it's creative...((my mind can accept this)) more than anything else...
2006-07-01 05:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by donia f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our bodies are essentially electro-chemical in nature. When you give off heat, (normal body heat) you are giving off energy by the burning (oxidation) of food (fuel).
When you die, your body essentially deteriorates by oxidation (decay or slow oxidation processes) and the flesh disappears. Bone takes longer because it is essentially minerals like calcium and phosphorous with minor amounts of other minerals.
Your spirit, however, is something else. Your consciousness is given to you by GOD. IT is energy given to you by GOD, and returns to God, hopefully in better condition than it was when you GOT it, meaning, hopefully you learned something by living.
2006-07-01 03:45:52 · answer #5 · answered by fiddlesticks9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the loosing of our energy is quiet a chemical process between the environment and the organic matter in human body.nothing else....
2006-07-01 03:31:30 · answer #6 · answered by kuttan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My body parts will be given to those who need them, what’s left I hope will be clean enough to make good fertilizer.
My spirit will live on in those who remember me and will spread through the universe to become part of everything.
2006-07-01 03:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by H. Hornblower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
energy is produced due to conversion of food to essential chemicals.energy is produced due to interaction of various enzymes and organs with food ,this energy is expended for various activities .(i.e., energy produced is expended immediately-there is no net storage of energy in our body).when body organs malfunction , energy production is stopped
2006-07-01 04:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by siddharth v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the energy gets eaten by microbes lol
2006-07-01 03:22:53 · answer #9 · answered by The best 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry I don't know...but a smaller version of that is....when a heavy person looses weight, where does it go?
2006-07-01 03:25:09 · answer #10 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋