Quote Originally Posted by WARPATH View Post
Has brain ceased to function? Then how do you know consciousness stops there?
Death, by medical definition, is when the brain ceases to function completely. As he and I have been trying to argue, consciousness is not an independent entity from the brain. Your consciousness it made up of a complex interaction of brain structures, chemical reactions, and electrical signals. When all that stops, there is not more consciousness. When the brain becomes damaged or starts to decay after death, those structures are no more.

What you are imagining is that the brain is like the control panel or driver's seat of some vehicle and when the body dies, the consciousness just jumps out and goes on its merry way. I'm trying to tell you that the consciousness is like a film projection or audio recording. You damage the source material, you irreparably damage the image/audio. You destroy the source material, you destroy the entire image/audio. Same thing with consciousness and the brain.