Do you feel that human consciousness is eternal.?

Question

Please answer this question without any biblical scripture. Tell me why you feel consciousness is eternal and not what any books have told you including the bible.

Have you see the shiny object

http://www.myspace.com/theshinyobject

Answer 1

Rephrase the question so that both yes and no have to defend their answer.

Answer 2

went to web site and saw no shiny object. Nor any relevance to your question.

I don't know about "consciousness", which includes your ego, but I rationally think that awareness is eternal. Science admits that it has no idea what awareness is or how its generated. The reason is that awareness is not a thing -- no qualities or characteristics. Rather, it is that which experiences things (some zen influences on that idea). The point is that 'things' die, etc. If awareness is not a thing then no reason to conclude that it ceases to (nor ever didn't) exist; nor would awareness, in itself, be seperate. Just as all our senses are just awareness experiencing thru different frameworks, so we could be part of a larger awareness. (Japanese) Zen believes that we are all God (one awareness) hiding from itself.

As for seeing anything, how would that demonstrate an eternal consciousness. If you can see it, it aint awareness.

Answer 3

Shiny objects notwithstanding, YES I believe conciousness has an eternal element to it. Your conciousness is your own experience...and I think that after you die and your conciousness AS YOU KNOW IT ceases to occupy your mortal body, there will be a continuance or awareness of some form that must go on. Whether or not that occurs in "another realm" upon death, or in another body or "unit of contained-conciousness" afterwards, I don't think we'll ever truly know the answer scientifically....it may not even be YOU, but somehow I can't see there NOT being some kind of ability of perception beyond conciousness as we know it.

Answer 4

Hey, now, the question asked for a yes or no, now you want back-up for a yes.
Well, NO, and here's why.
I died, but was brought back.
I didn't see nothin'.
After the car accident, I couldn't remember the next four days of my life, though I was talking and signing my son out of the hospital.
My head was so badly injured that I didn't know what year I was in sometimes.
That's consciousness,
and that's directly interrupted by neuorolgical damage/temporary wounding.
Soul, my foot.

Answer 5

Yes and no. The reason I am vague is because this all depends on your definition of human consciousness. Most of who we are - who we think we are - is composed of electrical impulses resulting from electro-chemical reactions in structures in our brains and spines. Our personality, character, likes, dislikes, favorite pizza are temporary. When our bodies die, our personality and character cease to exist. But, because our human mind "influences" our spirit there is an aspect of "us" that remains and "goes on". I use the term spirit here to refer to the enternal aspect of our awareness. We remain self-aware but in a very different form.

It is at that point that we can "move on", "ascend", "descend" or "regenerate". This all depends on how our human consckousness has affected our spirit. Some cause so much damage to their spirit that it is diminished and just sits there. Others possess powerful spirits (whether dark or light).

By the way, I completely made all this up in the last 2 minutes.

Answer 6

If the innovations is basically cloth, expertise ends definitively with the cessation of organic and organic existence. If the innovations isn't basically cloth, then perchance some way of immortality may be obtainable-- yet i do not comprehend if this may be determined or shown in basic terms on empirical grounds. Empirical investigations rule out this chance from the get flow and inspite of if the type of non secular "innovations" were to seem itself, an empirical analyze may unlikely be able to quantify or degree its existence. i come around the conception of quantum immortality to be the empirical equivalent of asking and answering the question of how many angels can dance on the best of a pin.

Answer 7

I believe that the proof that conciousness is eternal, is the proof that every individual has at every moment.

In the presence of Now, One is always observing the presence of Now. We do not continue to live in the past, nor can we live in the future. One may imagine it, yet not actually BE there. Yet One Is Always in the Present Moment. Even a physically blind person is observing the Now. Our experience of feeling in every moment of Now, prooves that we are observing the moment of Now and therefore Conciously exist within that moment.

I believe thus prooves that when we die , we continue to observe , just that we obesrve somewhere else.

Answer 8

I do not believe that consciousness is eternal. I believe that there is an eternal consciousness and each individual has the opportunity to express that consciousness as fully as their awareness of it allows them. Death simply stops that individual expression.

Answer 9

Consciousness is eternal, and all encompassing. Human consciousness is a part of this Great Consciousness.

Answer 10

No. When the brain ceases to function, your consciousness (which is nothing more than the processes of the brain) ceases to exist entirely.

The lingering metabolic energy is eventually released in the form of heat. The mind itself is not a form of energy, it is powered by metabolism.

Answer 11

I don't

Where were you 100 years ago?
When your body dies, your brain and your consciousness go with it

There are great articles regarding consciousness and the brain in last week's time magazine, and in the Economist from two weeks ago.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_RQDSPTQ