Did you know that every seven years none of your cells are original from seven years ago? By that I mean not one of your cells has been a part of you for more than seven years, you are a new you after that period of time. I mean you have the simple stuff like taste buds only take about ten days to be renewed and replaced, organs such as a liver and kidney takes longer, then things like the spine take a few years. But after seven years, we are not at all the same as we once were, and yet we are exactly the same. That leaves the question, who or what are we. I used to think that we were our brains, I mean it made sense, you remove any part of your body and replace it with someone else s, you are still you, but if you swap brains with someone, then you are suddenly you in different body. But that idea isn't entirely compatible with the fact that we are constantly being refreshed and renewed, even our brain is getting 'replaced'. There are questions I have that can probably never be answered, like what shape is our consciousness, that may sound strange but surely there is some sort of energy pattern or field, and why can't we see the grid that it hangs to?
Our consciousness has no senses, well none of the standard five anyway, it cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell because it doesn't have the receptors necessary to do so. But then it also can't think, which explains why it dies with the body, it's kind of ironic, our consciousness stops being conscious when we die. I think it is rather obvious that our conscious requires a brain and body to work. I mean, without a brain what is it? energy maybe? A cloud of energy using a natural vehicle that requires energy to operate? weird thought. What I mean is that we are not our brains, our brains are just our hard drive, you remove the hard drive from a computer, and i'ts still the same computer. Think of it this way, your operating system is stored on the internet, when your computer is on, it is linked to the internet and the operating system there is telling the computer what to do (True, you are telling the operating system what to do further but that's irrelevant in this analogy). Now if we take this back to my point on cells, say that over a year you decided to upgrade your laptop, first the ram, then hardrive, motherboard, graphics and all the rest, by the time you completely finished upgrading, there is no a single original part on the computer, but when you start it up, it still has the online operating system (ignoring the fact that it would have to be configured to do so, again, not relevant to this analogy) all of the files are the same and everything. But if this laptop gets destroyed, run over by a drunk cow driving a lorry, then the operating system now has nothing to work off of, and is gone.(dude, just ignore all the online backups and multi-device technologies). That's dying, when you die, your brain shuts down because the rest of your body can't sustain it, so your consciousness can no longer use it, and thus is no longer conscious, because it no longer has the ability to process thoughts.
That's how I view this anyway, I know most people don't believe in simple scientific consciousness, but rather a soul or ghost you, that operates the body as a physical form, and when it dies they leave it behind and go into an afterlife without it. I mean, your operating system isn't going to continue to remember the time or too back up you files periodically without the computer, but okay, if that;s what you choose to believe I am not going to argue with you. There is no proof in any direction.
This has been a strange post, I am sorry...but not really.
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