FabSwingers.com forum: Consciousness

By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

I believe it continues.

I'm not religious, but I do believe in the spirit

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

It's electrical impulses in your brain thing, and when you die the lights stop so that's it; so long and thanks for all the fish

LvM

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I believe it continues.

I'm not religious, but I do believe in the spirit "

Same I believe that when we pass on our spirits linger and watch over our loved ones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you asking what it is in abstract terms or human terms?

Don’t think there’s any evidence it endures in humans beyond the point of death. There would be no logical purpose of that, though the belief that it does seems to give comfort to some.

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"It's electrical impulses in your brain thing, and when you die the lights stop so that's it; so long and thanks for all the fish

LvM"

Absolutely.

So make the most of the time you have.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Consciousness is energy focused and structured, you cannot destroy energy, but energy can be dissipated and reformed elsewhere.

When you die, you wont remember anything of your current life, exactly like you cannot remember anything before you were born.

But there is somethong else on the other side, it doesnt just go black, imagining "nothingness" is possible, cos even a black void is still something, a black void, a space, nothingness is spaceless. So there is definitely something on the other side.

Is it a new life? Is it paradise? Nobody truly knows whats in store for us when we die hntil we all eventually experience it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".

He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Interesting question that being in a lot more questions.

While many believe that our consciousness is developed and therefore will ultimately die with us, Carl Jung believes we are born with consciousness already there. It’s as we grow we do not develop a consciousness but nearly unlock aspects of it.

With the in mind (pun intended) if this is the case then where do the locked conscious mind come from? Does this explain how some people claim to have lived past lives? Do they have a consciousness that has been past down and unlocked?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think it ceases when you die. It's experimently impossible to prove if it even portrays the reality we see around us.

All the components that make up your body from head to toe can be explained and how your heart pumps to keep them all going but why we have this extra dimension of consciousness scientist's, doctors can't figure out.

There's really only one way to find out if it carries on after your body shuts down.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".

He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.

This is partly why I feel the way I do.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

"I believe it continues.

I'm not religious, but I do believe in the spirit "

Last time I had spirit it led me to unconsciousness..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?"

The Anthropic Principle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I believe it lasts for a limited amount of time after you die. Seconds - minutes. Dr Greyson reported people experienced "in depth life reviews" which I also believe happens in that split second of living to dead.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

Consciousness is like the device you are reading this on now. It's the memory (or RAM) holding the words together.

Power off the device, and the RAM goes inert. The brain may hold the info, which the RAM accesses at a later date, but when the brain dies, the imprints on it decay and go.

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By *rNeoMan
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

Stop smoking banana skin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I agree… side note, your 19th July 2017 pic is incredibly erotic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is a bit deep for a Thursday night…

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"This is a bit deep for a Thursday night…"

You experience consciousness every day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?"

Does it exist?

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?

Does it exist? "

Do you exist? Do you have a sense of self? If so you are conscious.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"It's electrical impulses in your brain thing, and when you die the lights stop so that's it; so long and thanks for all the fish

LvM"

In the meantime go and enjoy a pan galactic gargle blaster.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".

He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.

There is also a sequence of documentaries on Netflix about people who have come back from death. It's pretty interesting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or are we in a simulation designed by a higher power?

Our reality is purely for their amusement. Hmmmmmmm.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or are we in a simulation designed by a higher power?

Our reality is purely for their amusement. Hmmmmmmm."

Like The Sims?

That’d explain a lot…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sure it's definable..

At the end of the film "chappie" dev patel's character tries to upload his consciousness into a robot form, with the assistance of a robot he already created, just before he dies.

Awesome film btw.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"If you're interested in that sort of stuff you should read "After - Dr Greyson".

He studied and reported on NDEs (near death experiences) which of course links to consciousness, the mind, our bodies.

There is also a sequence of documentaries on Netflix about people who have come back from death. It's pretty interesting "

Well speaking as someone who has gone and come back all I remember is absolutely nothing.

One minute running minding my own business then nothing, blackness and coming too in the back of an ambulance after being resuscitated I honestly don't remember anything I don't even remember how I got where I was. when I try and picture everything leading up to the moment and during I just see blackness.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

You can't remember what your brain never wrote down. Ever!

A polaroid that is never exposed to light, will not have an image.

Zero information in. Zero out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Consciousness or your soul? I believe we have a soul, and it lives on.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Consciousness is freedom.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness is freedom. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm happy to go on believing that when my heart stops beating, everything else about me just stops too

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

We are in the realms of antimony paradoxes here with regards to trying to define consciousness.

How does brain activity = the subjective state of being that a person feels ?

Fundamentally, it's unanswerable.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Most likely the output of out brain activity and when that stops, it ends too. No need to glam it up, except for our fragile egos and fears

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We didn’t have any consciousness before we were born, there was no darkness or emptiness, there was just nothing and that’s what I believe it will be like when we die. We won’t be aware that we’re dead we just won’t exist anymore, just like we didn’t exist before we were born. I don’t believe there is anything spiritual about it, it’s just science.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?"

The universe existed a long time before there was any consciousness to observe it.

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?"

I've been not conscious a few times, through anasthaesia or epilepsy and it was like my consciousness had been switched off for the duration. So if you die your consciousness moves elsewhere but if your just not in a state of consciousness, it's in some sort of limbo?

You get one life, enjoy it, don't hurt anyone else. Don't be scared of death, it can't hurt you. You can't feel it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We are a biological construct that carries the holographic construction of our memories. These memories last, in ourselves, for a finite time, but these memories can be passed on to others … a form of immortality if you will.

Anyway, with that I shall wish you all good night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does the Universe need consciousness to actually exist? If nothing was observing it would it be?"

Very point of thought!!!

How can so much very detail ever exist

Even our very own form??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness is energy focused and structured, you cannot destroy energy, but energy can be dissipated and reformed elsewhere.

When you die, you wont remember anything of your current life, exactly like you cannot remember anything before you were born.

Is it a new life? Is it paradise? Nobody truly knows whats in store for us when we die hntil we all eventually experience it."

Well put.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What is it? Is it eternal? Is it finite? Where does it go when you die?

Does it exist?

Do you exist? Do you have a sense of self? If so you are conscious."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness or your soul? I believe we have a soul, and it lives on.

Yes iam with you on that. The soul lives on . The body rots and decays away. It is only a shell.

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Isn’t it a state of mind…. ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness or your soul? I believe we have a soul, and it lives on.

Yes iam with you on that. The soul lives on . The body rots and decays away. It is only a shell. "

Where does the soul live?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Isn’t it a state of mind…. ?"

If you asked someone ‘what’s your current state of mind’ and that person replied ‘consciousness’ would you think that was a valid answer?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We didn’t have any consciousness before we were born, there was no darkness or emptiness, there was just nothing and that’s what I believe it will be like when we die. We won’t be aware that we’re dead we just won’t exist anymore, just like we didn’t exist before we were born. I don’t believe there is anything spiritual about it, it’s just science. "

How do you know there was no consciousness before we were born? Because you can't remember it?

I can't remember things that happened a few years ago but they definitely did.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness is freedom. "

Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Consciousness is freedom.

Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?"

Because they lack consciousness

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

Consciousness is only known to be a function of a physical brain. When the brain dies, so does consciousness. It may be comforting to think of something living on after death but I see no reason to think anything does and I do see reasons to think it doesn't. Luke

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Consciousness is freedom.

Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?"

Because their "freedom" is too awful to contemplate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Consciousness is freedom.

Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?

Because their "freedom" is too awful to contemplate"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard a definition of it during my philosophy degree (ages ago) it stayed with me. The professor defined it as this: picture yourself in a room with multiple doors but no windows. People and things enter the room and leave, sometimes staying a time sometimes leaving quickly. Some are so quick you only hear the door open and another close others stay and make the room feel cramped or more comfortable.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Consciousness is freedom.

Then why do some people deliberately get so d*unk they pass out?

Because their "freedom" is too awful to contemplate

That's only my experience of the very few people I know who do that on a regular basis.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone consulted Josh?

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