Death.

What happens to consciousness after Death?

..Does it just end after our current organic "living" life? 
...After death, will we ever feel and desire again?

This question will never have an definably true or proven answer, however, you can make assumptions based on your own personal intuition and beliefs. I'm going to leave out the scientific answer to this question, due to the fact that life is legally and scientifically declared over once the brain itself has ceased to operate. However, there may be new scientific evidence contradicting popular belief which I will speak about later in this entry.   

Now...I'll give my own personal insight on the unanswerable question in a more philosophical/theological way.

I think that wondering if consciousness remains after death is like wondering what happens to the light when you turn off a power switch...The force driving the consciousness died, making the consciousness, itself, which it powered eliminated or powered off...permanently.  Therefore, because life is no longer existant and the body containing it, which acts as a holding-cell, breaks down... ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Consciousness will be irrelevant and we won't even perceive the lack of consciousness in our broken down or evolved state, depending on how you look at it.



To look at the science behind death and to study the concept and see what happens, is quite intriguing as well. Due to multiple scientific studies, evidence shows that during cardiac arrest occurrence of heightened consciousness and awareness has significant implications, and has also raised the possibility that the mind and consciousness may continue functioning during clinical death. 

In these findings, there is plausible evidence that the occurrence of such experiences raises the possibility that mind or consciousness may continue to function even during clinical death. This shows that the functioning of the mind may continue to exist during death. The uncertainty of mental function during death still needs to be investigated extensively and I'm interested to see well supported studies being released in the near future. 

Free Will

Do people have free will?

I think we do have free will, but maybe I was predetermined to think that! Who knows...

Looking at it on a larger scale, a predetermined universe would be indistinguishable from a free one. However, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that it is indeed impossible to know the perfect position of any molecule at a set state or time. This is just an example of uncertainty in the world, if you want to go more in depth you can relate to the quantum dynamics of the universe and realize that some things CAN NOT be predetermined. 

Now, in today's current society, I would have to say the actions one takes are quite predeterminale. We are conditioned to act a certain way, depending on many factors in society. We know, and for the most part, follow the morels and norms of our current day society, with some influence from the past. Humans actions within a society can also be considered predetermined because we micic or generally follow what we were taught through nurturing, however nature plays a large role too. Even looking at Kohlbergs Theory of Moral Development, we can see much of the human race will act out of fear of being punished and hope of receiving a reward. Much of the human race does not evolve to the post-conventional stages of moral development by the end of a lifetime.