Originally Posted by Daredevilpwn
My two cents. I think consciousness is outside of the brain (lol wut). What the brain does is allow this consciousness to submerge its self into the physical experience. Basically I think the brain is like a receiver for consciousness. So if it has been scrambled or damaged then less consciousness is being received by the brain and thus you get Alzheimers, drunk, etc. While we are connected to this brain we cannot access whatever memories we had before connecting to the brain, we are totally immersed in this experience. Dreams for example. While we sleep our brains are more active than ever before. It is doing things like processing memories, regenerating body cells, etc. We as the consciousness awareness however are in a totally different world entirely, in the dream world. Now consciousness is still connected to the brain, if it disconnected you would die. But what sleeping does is it would allow consciousness to shift it's focus aka dreaming. The brain is doing it's own thing but consciousness has shifted it's focus. Consciousness never leaves the body until death, until then it can only change focus and it is always connected to the brain, so even though consciousness is doing its own thing in dream land, the brain still registers sensory input even though there is no outside stimulus. This stimulus is coming from somewhere else non-physical however since consciousness is still connected to the brain, the brain registers these non-physical sensations as physical sensations.
Then we got astral projection which is "leaving the body" but even during that, consciousness is still connected to the brain. This is represented by this silver cord people always say they see when they project. The purpose of this cord is to send and receive data from the physical body to the spirit. This allows you to remember what happened during the projection and without it you remember nothing. So I think that what it all comes down to is just focus. If you lose focus of this body (sleep) you become aware of another body (dream). Lose awareness of the dream world and you regain awareness of the physical world. But the big question is when the physical body croaks and when we lose awareness of it for good, what would we become aware of? Maybe nothing changes and we become aware of the spiritual body and fly and create universes. Once again, this could all be a load of shit but it would be nice...
I think an interesting question to ask is, even if consciousness did exist separate from the brain, would dying cause the same effect as blacking out? Could consciousness still exist but be, from a human standpoint, effectively useless as it cannot receive data/stimulus from its "reality receiver"? In effect, consciousness could still continue to exist, but be incapable of experience or any sort of perception. Perhaps rather than becoming aware of some sort of spiritual vessel or creating its own stimulus, nothing happens at all. Or maybe consciousness becomes tethered to a new "receiver" and you continue to "live" by being another human. Still assuming consciousness is separate from physical matter/your body, what if consciousness were only singular, and the same pool of consciousness received input from everybody, yet the "receiver" limits the knowledge of such an occurence and you are given the illusion of existing as a single unit/entity?
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