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Originally Posted by AidanMatthews216  If consciousness doesn't reside the brain, like mysterygal said your personality still does. Doesn't your personality govern how your consciousness interprets things, makes decisions, etc? What of that can remain if the physical structures in the brain that encode it have gone? Wouldn't it just be an empty, undefined consciousness? |
Good questions.
I'm not at all sure that my personality resides solely in the brain either. Assuming that
who I am resides outside of my brain (which I do), it's entirely possible that my personality, even my memories, "write" upon that consciousness, thereby creating permanancy.
For instance, and to answer one of Mysterygal's questions, let's say I were to get into an accident and "lose" my personality for the rest of my life. I believe that when I died, my consciousness would retain all of the experiences of my life, including the accident and the experience of a vegetative state.
Btw, I've not experienced life after death myself, so there's no way I can possibly prove (even to myself) that my beliefs in this case are true. I am basing my beliefs on my personal sense of how things are, and a few experiences I have personally had.