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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Where does my consciousness go after I die?
~~ Paul |
It's interesting that you think consciousness has a location. Imagine the following thought experiment. Suppose our brains were to be hooked up in such a manner that a robot at some remote location, sending the appropriate signals back, would make it seem to us that we were seeing out of that robot's eyes. Hence it would seem that we were actually there
in the robot. And this could be extended to the other senses so that in every way it would seem we are actually where the robot is. If the robot were sufficiently complex we could experience pains when there is damage to the robot, and of course we would regard the prospect of the destruction of the robot as the destruction of the self.
My personal belief is that we're not located anywhere. We only think we are located in our bodies because that's the location of our visual perspective. But we are no more located in our bodies than we are located in the main character that we control in a computer game.
So after we die our consciousness doesn't go anywhere. But we will experience a different world until we get reincarnated.