Awaretheory's answers to some of Deepak Chopra's consciousness related questions

This quote and these questions come from: "THE GREAT AFTERLIFE A Debate Between Michael Shermer & Deepak Chopra" This site is at: http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-great-afterlife-debate/

Deepak Chopra writes, when referring to religious and other belief systems about life after death:

"There is no common denominator here except one: consciousness itself. We have to shift our notion of the afterlife from being a place to being a state of awareness. Once we do that, life after death becomes much more plausible. Instead of arguing over religious beliefs, we can ask rational questions:

1. Can consciousness survive the body’s death?

2. Is there mind outside the brain?

3. Can we know the states of consciousness that belong to the afterlife without dying?

4. Does consciousness have a basis outside time and space?

To me these are rational questions, and we can devise experiments to answer them. "

Awaretheory's answer to all four questions is yes! But his is not based on any supernatural concept like souls, spirits, or gods.

Question #1 is not well defined. Obviously there exists consciousness after people die, produced in other live people. I think what Deepak Chopra is trying to ask is can we experience anything after we die? Awaretheory which is based upon that structural and functional materialism predict that there are all sorts of different afterlife or life after death experiences.

Question #2 It is likely that the brain is not the only structure of matter that will produce consciousness. But it still takes matter and or energy to produce consciousness. so Awareteory does not predict that consciousness can be produced by means other than with matter and energy. It is possible that dark matter and dark energy are involved in the production of consciousness.

Question #3 When we know all of the consciousnesses that belong to a specific ixperiencitness we then know all of the consciousnesses that you can experience after death. We do not have to know all of the different consciousnesses that have the same ixperiencitness to know many of the different consciousnesses that we can experience before or after death. Awaretheory predicts that there are an extremely large amount of before and after death experiences that we can call our own. This prediction is partially based on the sensepath application proof and sensepath existence proof.

Question #4 If this question means that any consciousness can be produced any where in space and time that the physapath that produces it can exist then this is what awaretheory predicts. For example, Aristotle's (famous greek philosopher and scientist) consciousness could exist today in many different ways. At any point in his life his body had a certain structure and functioning (physapath). If the physamoment was created when he was exactly 40 years old he would experience being at that point in his life and then experiencing any sensepath that was applied to him at this point in his life. The sensepath application principle is that any point of any sensepath can be applied to any point on any physapath or neuropath. So if the sensepath that you are experiencing right now was applied to Aristotle (which is likely sitting in front of a computer reading this sentence), Aristotle would experience sitting in front a computer in what looks like your room in total astonishment. Of course, if he was told that something beyond his understanding was going to happen to him in the next instance and just to go with it, and not be upset because everything that he was going to experience would be eventually explained. He would still be astonished but maybe not upset or stressed out. This is a case of life after death for Aristotle where he never knew that he died over two thousand years ago. His conscious existence like yours is timeless. But the earth is at a great distance from where it was when Aristotle was alive (because the earth his traveling with the sun, the sun is traveling around the galaxy, and the galaxy is traveling through the universe). Aristotle conscious existence is not limited by space or time. Nor is any one else's conscious existence tied to a specific space, time, group of matter (physipath), nor a specific structure and functioning of matter, physapath or neuropath.

See also: Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality, How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality,How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Theory of after death experiences, Awaretheory's answers to some of Deepak Chopra's consciousness related questions