Template:End of life connective awarepaths

Most people want to know what will happen to them after death. Awaretheory gives the answer to this as well as science can. The answer like all of science is more complex than simple answers can describe or explain. End of life connective awarepaths is one of the answers that alone is complicated in the possible answers it gives but the reasons for this complexity are rather simple.

We will start with imagining all the different ways people can experience dying. Some ways of dying are relatively pleasant like dying in your sleep. and others like torture over a long periods of time are not pleasant. We can imagine all sort of ways in between. A major distinction is knowing that you are dying or not knowing that you are dying when you die. If you die in your sleep you may not be aware that you were about to die. Or on an operating table where you were not supposed to die. Awaretheory states that when you die your body no longer produces any consciousness because consciousness is produced by the proper functioning of the brain for humans bodies. For you to get a body to be conscious again you have to get the body to function properly so that the brain will function properly. It does not matter how long it takes for this to happen as long as it does happen This is the basis for people who freeze their bodies after death. They believe that someday some one will make their body function properly again. How you get the body to function again especially the brain will determine the consciousness that is produced by that body. If only part of the brain is functioning properly it will be like having a stroke or an brain injury. Now imagine that you do get this dead body functioning like it was before its death. It will be producing a consciousness that will be like it did before death no matter how long the body has been dead. Many people believe that this is likely with the proper body functioning but many also do not believe that the recreation of the proper functioning can be done. Especially when over time the original body can change so much.

If we imagine a dead brain, it decomposes over time. If we wait long enough we will not know what the proper structure of the brain was. If we recreate the structure and functioning of someone elses brain such as a current living person by using the matter of the dead body we will be creating the consciousness and behavior of the duplicated person not that of the dead person. This is because structure and functioning of the body and specifically the brain produces consciousness and behavior. The point is you do not need to use the matter of the original person's body to make the original experience being alive again. If you accept that it is the structure and functioning of matter rather than the specific matter that produces a consciousness, then the question is what is the right structure and functioning of matter to make the original dead person alive again?

This is where the complexity comes in. There are many different ways the brain can be structured and then function for matter to produce the conscious of the original dead person again. In this discusion we are limiting the structure and functioning to ones that produce consciousnesses that are end of life connective. This essentially means the original person wakes, so to speak, and thinks and , or says "Oh I am alive again!", if he was aware that he died. If he did not know that he died he would be puzzled that things were different. Having awareness of how things were and about the death itself, ties the recreated person to his previous self. There are however, many different possible memories about his death and his previous life that he can have that are produced by the way the brain is currently functioning. These current memories do not have to be true to what he actually experienced in life or at death. If he died in his sleep he could now have memories of dying in a car accident. The difference would be caused by the difference in how the brain is now functioning.

If there was just one possible present structure and functioning of matter that connected the past you to your present you it would be like death was permanent. Because it is frankly impossible to duplicate the exact structure and functioning of the body and or brain. This is because the brain is so complicated. You need not only the ability to duplicate exactly the body but also the knowledge about the one structure and functioning that needs to be duplicated amoung the enumerable amount of other ways the body can be structured and then function. Most people if they think this far through the process of replicas and death stop here. They may conclude that it may be possible but the likelihood is so small that it can never happen in reality.

Awaretheory, basically has solved this problem with the realization that a very large amount of structures and functionings will produce a consciousness that the original will actually experience. Many of these structures and functionings will consciously connect the previous consciousness to the present consciousness.