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I find it odd that we doubt the afterlife.
This is a universe where nothing is ever truly created or destroyed, merely changing form from one thing to another.
And yet the view we associate with "Science!" is that conciousness is the one exception? What makes you think you're so special that the universe will only experience you for a limited time? You're not a happy meal promotion, you're as immortal as everything else.
Consciousness isn't a tangible thing. It's just a label we use for a type of brain behavior. Once there's no brain, there's no more behavior. Just like once your heart dies, there's no more heartbeat.
I dunno we still see things like Terminal Lucidity and NDEs all the time.
One of those is pre-death and the other is near-death. I don't see how either suggests that there's some ghost-brain that functions after death.
Saying "Oh that's just near death. Never mind that we are seeing active consciousness where none should exist."
Isn't that just moving the goal post at the end of the day?
No, both of those still involves some form of brain consciousness. What we don't have any evidence of is consciousness existing without a physical body.