Is your mind not just a function of your brain cells? Does your mind not cease to exist when your brain dies? It is impossible to know what it's like for your mind to not exist, but is that not what happens when you die? What makes more sense; Some form of an afterlife? Or nothingness?
2006-08-04 07:13:38 · 18 answers · asked by RosenSkull 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To make it clearer, I should ask instead: If your mind does not exist before you are conceived, why would it exist after you die?
2006-08-06 09:36:23 · update #1
Birth is simply the entrance into temporal reality. Death is the exit.
Time does not exist outside the confines of the physical universe. So the concept that ANYTHING happened to us BEFORE birth doesn't work. However, if you contemplate time as a bubble, rather than linear and infinite, before life and after death are basically the same thing.
I believe we enter life from eternity, and that we return to it after death. So, our consciousness exists outside the bubble of time.
2006-08-04 07:23:28 · answer #1 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on which belief system you chose to follow. There are many that say that the spirts exist waiting to be conceived or that we are manifestations of the universal consciousness. If that's the case then it only makes sense that there is something after death. I agree that in Christianity souls are just blinked into existence and then exist forever and that doesn't really make much sense. We really have to consider all of the possibilities before we start excluding any though.
Wow thepeskywabbit must know alot about science. I always thought that in the first 48 hours the blastocyst was just popping out of the fallopian tubes and into the uterus.
2006-08-04 14:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not the mind, the soul.
Then again you might even ask-
If your soul did not exist before you are born, why would it exist after you die?
Then answer me, why did you come to the world? and your soul has already been created and you have done a lot of deeds.So shouldnt there be some kind of a judgement? and your soul, your individual self has already been created. It cant just die or vanish in thin air like that? Can it?
2006-08-04 14:30:17 · answer #3 · answered by Tushi K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we die it exist Because it will pass it to another life by the karmic energy. Where this happen because the mind have turn to energy force where when we die. The energy will rise in the human mind when we born. Where the energy already been absorbed to the fetus where there the baby is form in the inside. Where the energy will increase life to life and form to energy spread and it will form to another life where we call it reborn. This is what i think it will be and my opinion from my own understanding and i am quite honest to say that i am still searching the most correct answer to correct my own view point.
2006-08-04 14:26:14 · answer #4 · answered by Rayment Quah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mind exists before you are born. People react to stimuli in utero. As for what happens after you die, no one knows.
ThePeskyWabbit, 48 hours after conception, the embryo has neither a brain nor a heart
2006-08-04 14:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh i could go into this in great detail but ill try keep it short lol
great question though
OK ill try put it a few ways though ...
our aura ( which has been proven to exist by means of kirlean photography ) has shown that our body has a counterpart in it .. for each part of our body there exists an auric twin so to speak ...
our body has an energy all of its own .. each organ .. each part of us showing to be affected in our aura .. if we are ill this may show in our aura to be darker or duller in the affected are .. this include the mind
it is this that goes on after our death .. the aura .. the energy part of us .. that holds our feelings , memory etc
i have other ways to explain why i believe that the mind survives bodily death as a medium and student of psychical research
would love to discuss this further though if you have any questions about it
2006-08-04 14:39:33 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one must define mind before a true answer can be sought. so while this question is under scrutiny, lets explore the last two question. afterlife or nothingness? this can be answered with simple delight thinking. ( my term if you will ) what makes you feel comfortable in your space? seek this and you shall find the peace that allows the mind to chose the right path for you.
2006-08-04 16:15:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After 48 hours of conception, your brain functions. It is supplied with blood by an already beating heart.
2006-08-04 14:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't exist after you die. If you're thinking about "soul", well, you ARE a soul (even if you weren't thinking about that). I am a soul. Did I just confuse you? If I did, email me directly @ beckaroo_messer, okeday? You kinda asked a DEEP question......
2006-08-04 14:18:28 · answer #9 · answered by beckaroo_messer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well a story designed to comfort human beings would be far less effective if it stated "You've already been to Heaven...you just can't remember" rather than "Don't worry, Heaven is waiting for you, and now that you're conscious, you'll never really die."
2006-08-04 14:17:57 · answer #10 · answered by SecondStar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋