when our body is finished then can our mind think..yes or no..critical answer please
2006-11-30 03:56:36 · 12 answers · asked by muzzam 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Our minds die with our bodies. Our "mind" lives within our brain and when our brain dies, so does all sentient activity.
The REAL question is... would abstract concepts like "love" and "justice" still exist if there were no minds to conceive of them?
2006-11-30 03:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The chemical activity/electrical signature dies out slow so the question has always been in the sci-fi realm, could you be Dr. Frankenstein and re-animate it? Or do a brain transplant? But the only way to truly have immortal thought is to put them into words or pictures for all mankind. The "soul" would not rot as the contents of the brain cavity do, and I have nothing but faith to state in witness of teh soul's existance, but it is the thing that makes us different from other living things, and the only thing that makes mankind any better. So in that sense, I believe souls survive as there are stories of people witnessing a burst of energy at death of the body, there is a spine tingling sense about such things, it has to be more than a manifestation of our brain, our strong desire to survive inevitable death. And there is the belief that our souls go back into a "great collective" or sea, or rejoin with God, of many different names and theologies. I don't believe in "ghosts" as lost souls but believe under certain conditions we process things conciously and sub-conciously that make us react in different ways to our enviroment. Knowing a bloody murder occurred on a spot, or seeing an old photograph or having once heard a story we thoyght we forgot, is more likely to generate an image or assign any noise or occurence we normally would dismiss as being a "haunting".
2006-11-30 12:02:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection, the resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later. (Rom. 6:23; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Ps. 146:3, 4; John 11:11-14; Col. 3:4; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 1 Thess. 4:13-17; John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:1-10.)
2006-11-30 12:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think It depends on how many brains your mind has. If the universe is infinitely large and sufficiently diverse then by the pidgeon hole principle there should be multiple identical copies of your brain. Your mind ( logical brain configuration ) then exists in multiple brains and does not necessarily die when only one brain copy dies. The idea that the mind has multiple copies is not so crazy at it sounds. It is a reasonable ( and simple ) explaination of quantum mechanics. It explains quantum indeterminism ( You don't know which copy of your mind is doing the observing ).
2006-11-30 12:12:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Once you're blood stops pumping, your organs stop functioning, your brain stops sending electric signals. Some people believe in a 'soul,' but this is radically different from the thinking, brain-like mind in your head. Though I suppose Jews (and some Christians) who believe in resurrection, may believe that the brain begins to function again then.
2006-11-30 12:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by lady_s_hazy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that IS the question, isn't it?
It appears that OBE's and NDE's at least suggest that we do indeeed survive our physical deaths. But we really can't know for sure until we get there, can we?
But since blind people have been able to see during their NDE's, I tend to believe we DO survive.
Think about it.
2006-11-30 12:01:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A thought created the body, and on thought it lives. The thought before anything else and all else .
2006-11-30 12:00:49 · answer #7 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Psalm 146:3,4 and Ecclesiastes 9:5 when you die you stop thinking
2006-11-30 12:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by linniepooh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the mind as such, it is the soul, the immortal part th@ is oriented in and thrives 4rm the positivity of love.
it is our essence, our soul th@ lives on, not necessarily the mind.
2006-11-30 11:59:43 · answer #9 · answered by pensive07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Our mind is the state and processing of our brain. If our brain is dead, we no longer exist.
2006-11-30 12:00:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋