Life after death

Rebuttal: Definition of consciousness the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself, the state or fact of being conscious of an external object, state, or fact, awareness; especially : concern for some social or political cause , the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought : mind, the totality of conscious states of an individual, the normal state of conscious life and the upper level of mental life of which the person is aware as contrasted with unconscious processes https://www.merriam-webster.com... You start out by giving many examples how consciousness may be affected in a physical person but then conclude that the same thing should apply to a non-physical entity as well? Energy does not stop existing, it may change and when it does the properties it possess also change. Likewise consciousness may not require the assistance of some physical element to function properly when the body dies. Consciousness is primarily awareness. Memory may be an aspect of that but consciousness is not dependent on the memory to function. Your example of the man with the 7 second memory is proof of that. At the present moment he is aware of himself and his surroundings but cannot remember anything of previous awareness"s. Does his lack of memory impart his ability to be conscious of himself and surroundings in the present moment? No it does not. Even a person who"s Hippocampus is damaged is still aware of the present moment he/she finds themselves in. You do not need to learn something new to see your own body and surroundings and be aware of them. This basically means that even if memory is completely impossible it does not nullify consciousness. A second example is the point you brought up regarding people in coma. I suppose that all people who were in coma do not come out of it without ANY memories, as in all memories gone from childhood. Therefore the memories and other functionalities remained dormant. It did not cease to exist. And even when they do come out of coma they will have instant awareness of their surroundings even though no memories are present. So basically your point to show that "memory are completely impossible if the physical brain is damaged or absent" do not affect consciousness or is enough evidence to therefore conclude that consciousness will cease to exist or is an impossibility. There are many medical cases that have recorded instances where people have been declared dead but after some time the person came back to life. Many of these people recount details of what was going on after they were declared dead, which means they were still aware of their surroundings. Some gave precise descriptions of events that took place while they were declared dead. That should be proof enough that consciousness can exist when the body stopped functioning. Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion "shut down" and that he then experienced "something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death." In an essay for American magazine Newsweek, which he wrote to promote his book Proof of Heaven, Dr Alexander says he was met by a beautiful blue-eyed woman in a "place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones" and "shimmering beings". http://www.telegraph.co.uk... In fact a recent article states that "science" have proof for the afterlife. In a large scale study of more than 2,000 people, British boffins confirmed that thoughts DO carry on after the heart stops. The shock research has also uncovered the most convincing evidence of an out of body experience for a patient declared dead. It had been believed the brain stopped all activity 30 seconds after the heart had stopped pumping blood around the body, and that with that, awareness ceases too. However, the study from the University of Southampton shows people still experience awareness for up to three minutes after they had been pronounced dead. http://www.express.co.uk... You mention a lot of situations that may impact a ghost in a negative way in a hypothetical manner, I say hypothetical because you try and impose physical characteristics on a ghost who is not physical in the same way as we are. That"s like entering a Porsche into a horse race. It"s ok right, because the Porsche and the horse are both able to move forward right? Of course not. If a ghost is not subjected to the same physical limitations as we are then it follows most likely that the "ghost" will be able to have full functionality and not have limitations as you conclude. What science has discovered for humans can only scientifically apply to a ghost if they are able to subject the Ghost to the same testing under the same conditions. I think this should be sufficient to point out that science do have limitations.