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. 

The Tree in the Forest

I have a philosophical situation for you. 


A large tree falls in a forest, no one is in the forest to hear the tree fall, when the tree hits the ground....Does it make a noise? 


I saw this situation in 2 different ways...


The first way is the logical scientific way...of course it makes a noise. Its what we are trained to think. Something falls....sound is produced. Sound is just the transfer of energy. Sound waves are energy releasing into the environment around you. So scientifically, yes, it would create a noise. Due to the kinetic energy being released from the predicted contact with another object. 


However, in our society. Isn't "noise" just a term for something we can hear and perceive it as a sound? If there was no scientific backup that high frequency sounds that are out of our hearing capacity were indeed real... Would we believe it? 


In today's society, I feel confident saying that "sound" doesn't become a sound until  and only until there is some intermediate observing it. For example, a noise is only a sound until a person hears it. For it to be a sound, it requires that there be a receiver of this said "sound". Until then, it's just a release of energy through compressed sound waves.