2006-09-19 23:03:56 · 24 answers · asked by coolblu_topaz 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i think we must be. i was in a bad accident ant i got taken to the A and E anyway according to the doctors i died for a few minutes but they managed to get my heart going and get me breathing but the funny thing is i can remember what was happening when i was supposed to be dead and i wasn't dreaming cos i knew who was in the room what they where saying
2006-09-19 23:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll have to assume some things about your question before answering. "We" means the person who inhabits the body and mind, not the body or mind itself and therefore your answer is yes. The spirit soul is eternal and when the body 'dies', the spirit soul transmigrates to another mother's womb to start another 'life' in another situation. However, the mind body, subtle body, accompanies the spirit soul to that new situation and therefore, the spirit soul, the person, is capable of thought after death. In fact, the body is never alive in the first place. The body is a bag of chemial ingredients that cannot by itself ever be alive. No one has given life to a dead body or constructed a body that subsequently came to life. Without the spirit soul's presence in the body, the body cannot do anything. Right now, we, the spirit soul in the vehicle of the body, is covered by two bodies -- the gross body of skin, blood, muscles, bones, etc, and the subtle body composed of mind, intelligence and false ego. The subtle body carries the spirit soul to its new body when the gross body 'dies'. This subtle body contains some of the memories, learned experiences, and impressions from the previous life and lives so that when the spirit soul gets its new body there is already some things from the past made immediately available. This is apparent in child prodigies and idiot savants who seem to be very advanced in a discipline without undergoing any training or education. Their knowledge is from a previous life.
You can read much more about the subtle body and transmigration of the soul in the Bhagavad-gita at the link below.
2006-09-20 07:56:03 · answer #2 · answered by Jagatkarta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the Bible at Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.
If you want to know if there are any future prospects for the dead, check Revelation 20:12-13 & 21:4
2006-09-20 06:08:48 · answer #3 · answered by hollymichal 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you are dead, you are dead. Only the soul lives on and the soul has no conscious thoughts like the ones you know about.
2006-09-20 06:07:29 · answer #4 · answered by ancalagon2003 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.Because thought is a process trigged off by the brain.With no brain there is no mind which is nothing but a flow of thoughts.
But vasanas(tendencies remain)are carried forward with the feelings of satisfaction/dissatisfaction still lingering on till the attainment of a new body for fulfilment of desires & karma.
2006-09-20 15:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by aum_sudha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The electrical impulses in the brain dissapear upon death,true, but where does that energy dissapate to?
Assuming that we have a soul,could that not be it?
One of my friends always brings up the third law of thermodynamics when discussing this very question,
which states that the entropy of a system at zero absolute temperature is a well-defined constant. This is because a system at zero temperature exists in its ground state, so that its entropy is determined only by the degeneracy of the ground state; or, it states that "it is impossible by any procedure, no matter how idealised, to reduce any system to the absolute zero of temperature in a finite number of operations".
Meaning; If the soul was this electrical symphony
that began at birth,then
wouldn't that energy redistribute itself according to this theorom upon passing?
2006-09-20 06:46:06 · answer #6 · answered by moebiusfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It is said that the scientist Lavoisier, beheaded during the Reign of Terror in France in 1794, prearranged with his assistant that he would blink, if he could, after execution by guillotine (so obviously legally and medically dead), and indeed he did, many times over a period of 20-30 seconds.
In another incident, in 1989, a U.S. Army soldier was travelling in a taxi with a friend, and they collided with a truck. The friend was decapitated. He reported: "My friend's head came to rest face up, and (from my angle) upside-down. As I watched, his mouth opened and closed no less than two times. The facial expressions he displayed were first of shock or confusion, followed by terror or grief. His eyes moved from me, to his body, and back to me. He had direct eye contact with me."
2006-09-20 06:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Brain stops functioning after abt 6 hrs after ur death(tat is if u r nt brain dead).
The mind needs the Brain in order to function.
So we r nt capable of functioning after death.
2006-09-20 06:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by hari_mpkumar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well conscious thoughts originate in the brain, and death occurs when there is brain death. so my best guess is that we are not capable of conscious thoughts when we are dead.
2006-09-20 06:13:03 · answer #9 · answered by nurseknowitall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, we are no longer capable of conscious thoughts when we are dead
2006-09-20 06:15:58 · answer #10 · answered by oscar delta 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋