...where do our thoughts and memories go when we die?
2006-09-22 06:13:07 · 11 answers · asked by Marcello 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
thoughts are not matter or energy, you fool.
2006-09-22 06:20:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
As far as science can tell, memories are the results of physical and chemical functions in your brain. So the physical effects of your thoughts and memories might decay into heat energy and then dissapate, or convert into other chemicals that break down over time and release their energy through heat as well.
If you're talking about incorporeal parts of your being, science doesn't have any evidence that they exist, so we can't know that they are subject to physical limitations. If they exist they could concieveably go on without changing, just are transfered to another nonphyisical entity, like your soul.
2006-09-22 07:06:31 · answer #2 · answered by Trips 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True.Matter and energy can not be destroyed. Thoughts and memories are not matter or energy.The exact mechanism as to how thoughts and information are stored in brain of a human being is not clear. When some one dies I suppose the thoughts and memories go along with the brain in which they had found a home dead and gone.
2006-09-22 06:24:01 · answer #3 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They become anti-matter. Ordinary atoms are made up of a number of electron particles in orbit around a nucleus. Anti-matter atoms have the same basic structure, but are made up of anti-particles. Every sub-atomic particle is known to have a corresponding anti-particle. This is where I suppose, faith/metaphysics come to the forefront. To extend this concept further, the thoughts and memories become anti-matter and nobody knows at this primary level if they attach to the "soul" of the person, or exactly where they go depending on your faith belief but as anti-matter they do exist. Some scientists have used this concept to explain ghosts as well.
2006-09-22 08:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by Shaman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although it may seem odd, memories are matter. They are stored in our brain cells the way a hard drive saves information. Although it is much more complex, and very very different, the idea is the same. So when we die, our brain cells deteiriorate. So do our memories.
This wasnt the way God intended life, though. We only die because of a challange Satan made..but that's a different story.
Woah, why do I have two thumbs down?
2006-09-22 06:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by lewa 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Dear Marcello , who said that thoughts and memories are energy,or matter. So they don't follow this law .
Any way our thoughts pass to the people we love, who share everything with us .
2006-09-22 06:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by Moon_light1985 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you think from point of view of science, then the thoughts are chemicals and neural connections that also die with you.
But thought are more than that. They live with those who you love, those who love you, those that believe you, and those who would be on your side till last moment. With them, your thought live endlessly, without any physics or science applied.
2006-09-22 06:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by Greatsci 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoughts and memories are just chemical's stored in our brain that are interpretated in a clever way by the rest of our brain. They just, degrade like the rest of your brain.
Or, alternatively, if you beleive in heaven. They follow your soul up there!
^_^
2006-09-22 06:23:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. power ameliorations kinds for all time. Its no longer massive deal. The power in our minds is used up by making use of the micro organisms that eat it at the same time as it rots. in case your theory changed into authentic, the information of each animal ought to correctly be recovered from the ambience too.
2016-11-23 15:21:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just smashed my Rolex with a sledge hammer. I think it's destroyed.?
2006-09-22 06:54:57 · answer #10 · answered by confused 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋