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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Question" data-source="post: 1024252" data-attributes="member: 1100">Consciousness is just patterns of electrical signals in the jelly CPU we call the brain.You die? Those electrical patterns migrate. Remember, neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed, only converted from one state to the other. You get buried? You get eaten; those electrical patterns are converted and continue along changing states as they go, dissipating and converging with other patterns; state-change, dissipation, convergence, on and on, until they maybe come back together again in another organism.You get cremated instead? Combustion discharges matter and energy more or less all together into the atmosphere. Maybe re-convergence takes a little longer that way; on the other hand, maybe it's quicker.Give it long enough, they converge back together in another human organism at some point.</blockquote>