[OlderWiser]

Originally Posted by InJoy

This is just my (geeky) theory, of course, but I tend to think of it a lot like a computer. I think of our Consciousness (who we are) as part of the Great Hard Drive of the Universe. What we experience on this earth is stored in RAM (our brains) and that's what we mostly use to get around and along on a day to day basis. So, when we have brain damage (for instance) our RAM may get wiped. But all our lives, it's been writing to the GHDU. So while, to our earthly counterparts, that which makes our body "go" (the brain, or RAM) has lost its juice, its all still there on the GHDU. And even while we are in a vegetative state, or dead even, the GHDU exists and loses nothing.

Wow, cool metaphor. Geeky is good.