Consciousness Survives Death

A light vernal wind swept through the evening street. They sat on the balcony drinking coffee. "The conscious experience", he said, "the sense of self and our soul undergo transformations but they survive death." "You sound so sure but how can you know this? ", she objected. "I cannot prove this, of course", he said, " but I believe it. "Well, that is not good enough", she said. "You need to present the evidence for your bold assertion, if you want to convince me." "And I offer some evidence", he said. "Quantum Theory supports the belief that life is a transformation that advances to another state of being. The soul is eternal and continues to exist on a quantum level. Consciousness creates reality. All our thoughts and feelings survive in the quantum repository of the cosmos." "Quite interesting", she said. "But, you know, I'm a hardcore skeptic." "Well, for believers there are no questions and for non-believers there are no answers", he said. "Nevertheless, let me add something that might precipitate a change in your way of thinking: Consider that our mental life cannot depend entirely on the functioning of brain neurons, a community of some 100 billion bits of jelly. All the atoms in our body are replaced completely over time and therefore our 'software', our specific consciousness, our individual memories and records of our personal experience cannot be identical with the 'hardware' of the body. In any case, death remains a total mystery and it transcends the whole empirical pudding."