'Life after death', is there a scientific (not religious) basis for such a thing?

Question

Once the brain is dead (no more blood to the brain, the brain cells have quit operating), is it physically possible for some sort of conciousness to continue on? If so, how could this happen without breaking laws of physics? This question is not intended to be for, or against, any type of religion. George Carlin once said that he didn't believe in life after death, but he wished that there was some way of knowing for sure. George said, "After we die, it would be nice if a loud voice from somewhere would announce, 'IT'S NOTHING.'

Answer 1

It is true that there is more we don't know than what we do know. With that in mind, consider that our universe is one of many that make up the multiverse. Our thoughts create an energy pattern which is written in our physical brains. Because there is a physical nature to this energy pattern, it is entangled (ref. to quantum entanglement) to other things. These other physical things that our minds are entangled to continue even when our physical brains fail.

While this is a weak consideration, it is my best guess. Faith? What do you want to believe?

In my own life I have experienced things that could not be explained by normal physics. Not a chance.

I believe in life after death for several reasons, but mostly because of the odd things I have directly witnessed.

Answer 2

The Laws of Physics, or any law, really, (In my own opinion), can be 'broken'. These are just words, perhaps fanfictions of the jumbling human mind for we are somehow unable to put the matters of sense into a better form. Therefore, we use the transition of words to provide an opening, a doorway, to percieve an often false view of 'yes-we-answered-it-correctly'.

Foe example- Many people of the public claim and say that it is impossible for fire to burn on water, but voila`! Pour a whole load of oil, gasoline, whatever, onto the ocean, and blow it up with a match or two- Watch it burn. However, some people become awed by this 'feat', while others still stick to their ways.
Why? How? It doesn't matter- I could explain, you could explain, but it wouldn't deign to matter anyhow.

As for your question.... :
Physically, it would be impossible I think. Imagine- Someone has died at the (opinion) ripe age of 92 years. His funeral commence, and his body was buried in the usual tradition of inside a casket, with flowers and mourning guests and whatnot. Time passes by, the body rots inside the casket, and life continues on elsewhere as we know it. Where does this answer your question?
'The body rots..." Since the body (I'm assuming all bodies rot, unless contained and preserved like the Egyptian mummies alike...) disentegrates somehow, someway, at sometime, the brain would go along with it too. Therefore, their would be no 'concious', or 'subconcious' of the mind, wandering the earth in an 'eternal' pathway sepereate from the mortal life as we know it.



That's all my mind can produce clear enough, for now, at least.

My apologies if you don't like my answer, I'm still 13 (although age may not prove to be a holdback against brain-power, according to various studies), give me time.

Answer 3

There is no actual proof of life after death. However, many religions have beliefs of reincarnation, which is sort of like life after death. In Tibetan buddhism, the Dalai Lama is supposedly just a human vessel for the divine reincarnation of buddha; when each Dalai Lama dies, the spirit of buddha is said to find a new vessel in a child, and the new child will become the new Dalai Lama after being subject to an array of tests about information the child could not have known (for example, intimate details about the last Dalai Lama). I think this testing is very close to a proof of reincarnation because the new Dalai Lama must answer almost all of the questions correctly in order to pass the tests. More research could maybe be made in this area. (btw, i am a buddhist).

Answer 4

No, it's just a scary bedtime story to get humans to do what the ruling class wants them to do. Our bodies are matter and when they decompose, they release energy. Perhaps someday scientist will be able to actually preserve our brainwaves somehow and keep our minds alive, but that's a long way off. As for life after death experiences, anyone who has oxygen deprivation to the brain will have some strange dreams.

Answer 5

The answer would have to be - no. Like most things religious - there's no proof either way. Most phenomena reported by clinically dead individuals can be easily explained as simple medical conditions of the mind, and can be just as easily replicated.

Life after death is not a proved state and given the 5000 years of recorded history, not one non-religious evidence was given to such an event.

Answer 6

Yes. There is a solid scientific basis for the belief in Life after death. Both the knowledge of our own mortality and the human "emotion" of hope have been amply demonstrated. You connect the dots. One problem the LAD crowd have to confront is the huge and growing body of evidence which shows that consciousness is intimately tied into our endocrine, hormonal, glandular systems. We certainly wouldn't be us without our bodies - or something equivalent. Not to mention some stroke victims who undergo huge changes of personality. But in general is is assumed that LAD is a supernatural phenom, not subject to scienticic study and measurement. How many reincarnates haven't had historically recorded previous lives? Compare that with the proportion of human existence which has been recorded and you'll see a problem...And don't forget LOOP (life on other planets). Does God discriminate? How do you prove a negative?
On the other hand, lets talk about ball lightning. There seem to be credible reports and evidence of it, yet we lack (as far as I've heard) a theory which explains how a ball of electrical energy can persist for so long. That subject is being studied scientifically. Who knows, with extra dimensions, multiple universes as possibilities who can even say what is scientifically true?

Answer 7

From my information, he did no longer be attentive to what he became. He wasn't an atheist or a pantheist, because of the fact he pronounced he wasn't. He surely could no longer understand a placing out to a God (from Jewish ideals, God has no beginning up, so he could no longer have faith in that God), yet he could no longer additionally understand the order he observed in the universe and not utilising a God being present day. yet he truthfully became no longer a Christian. i think of, given the Holocaust, he could have been indignant on the belief. i think of the Snopes answer nonetheless in all threat has some thing to do with it. basically like human beings have faith that blinking your headlights gets you killed, human beings tend to get emails asserting Einstein did this or became that and take it as gospel. :P "In view of such cohesion in the cosmos which I, with my limited human thoughts, am in a position to correctly known, there are yet people who say there is not any God. yet what somewhat makes me offended is they quote me for the help of such perspectives." "i'm no longer an atheist and that i do no longer think of i can call myself a pantheist. we are in the placement of a splash baby getting right into a brilliant library packed with books in lots of languages. the youngster is conscious somebody could have written those books. It would not be attentive to ways. It would not understand the languages wherein they're written. the youngster dimly suspects a mysterious order in the preparations of the books, yet would not be attentive to what it somewhat is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the main clever person in the direction of God." upload: just to assert it, if Einstein pronounced "i'm no longer a pantheist" that's what he pronounced, regardless of if what he additionally pronounced seems to lean in that path, you could no longer say "he became a pantheist." He pronounced he wasn't, and... this is basically the way it somewhat is.

Answer 8

In physics we have learnt that energy can never be eliminated instead it changes from one to another form. For example we breath in and the waste produced would be CO2 and heat. Heat is circulated to the environment and co2 is being used up again by the plants for photosynthesis. Same goes to our soul which has energy. Even our vision, we see skies but there aren’t any cables or tunnel that links our eyes and the sky. Its all matter of energy or tiny atoms running thru our eyes. God knows! Every action we do, some sort of energy is being produced. Do good; positive energy produced and its being circulated as good aura. Do bad same build aura is circulated surrounding u. I belief when u die, ur body is decomposed and u feed the underground creatures. Meantime ur soul can never vanish. Its being transformed to something else. Could be a tree, a bird or a even newborn child. If your soul has too much of bad aura the newborn would endure the same aura which was produced before.

Answer 9

No. Some people may talk about near-death experiences, but it's been shown that it's just your brain freaking out and going to a happy place. It's happened to test pilots at high g-levels, when they were in no danger of dying. Visions, light tunnels, dead relatives, etc. All happened to them too.

Answer 10

After reading some of the answers I had to get in on this. First off science is filled with a bunch of theories. Some may appear to have truth some may not. Their is no way to answer this scientifically. One person mentioned that there is no proof, Yet there is.....We all have the abililty for life after death. No matter what you CHOOSE to believe doesn't change the truth. Almost every religion, aside from Buddism, tells the same facts about the life of Jesus Christ. The problem is most don't tell the whole truth. Jews don't believe he was the Messiah, Muslims believe he was the son of God and new his way to heaven but they don't know what happened after he died. The fact is he is the son of God and because he died for our sins we now can have LIFE AFTER DEATH forever with the almigthy God. By the way he is alive and well and can be in your real life right now.