Consciousness is non-physical, and self-aware.

A idea of an individual spirit either going to heaven or hell is in the arena of religion, and perhaps that idea is suited to that category, more so than the initial scientific approach taken; which regarded using an apparatus to observe and define the electrical firing of the brain to determine when it is active and alive, indicating merely that it is "conscious" and able to think. Science is limited by observation to define what is real. Religion is based largely on the power of faith and uses ritual to find truth. Philosophy similarly is based in belief, yet uses reason and logic to determine truth in knowledge. I'm limited to a language as a tool to express an understanding of where ultimately consciousness or mind rests in the known universe. Mind in this argument is not brain. Mind is the seat of consciousness. My theory is that there is only one mind and one consciousness that we all share, but our individual minds and bodies have brains and other organs that are porous to all of consciousness. We are a part of this universe, not apart from, and different from it. We are all basically one in the same. Consciousness though is in all places at all times, not just inside our skull, as it has no weight nor cause any friction inside our brain. We are like brushes, paint is consciousness, and the universe is a canvass. The paint is the consciousness we get to express with, imagine, create and discover. By eventual discovery with our individual minds of what we've imagined, porous to consciousness, we use or senses to project and paint, thus we manifest and create. Physically in our 3rd dimension of a space and time continuum we make observable changes, yet without humankind, or other life as we know it, evolution and change continues, chaotically and as well following an orderliness. We only construct what exist before us in our mind. Time in the mind does not really exist as we know it. Time is an abstract idea we create based on observation of the patterned movements of our solar system. We know time by aging and observing change, especially new life and death. Consciousness in the mind is aware and permeates all living and non-living things but is itself not material or think about time. We do, because we see change. All things are unique, not just humans. Consciousness in and of itself has no weight nor mass and is transparent, therefore it is non-physical. Being an alive and aware conscious individual being, or animal is one thing, and consciousness "throughout" all other matter is another. Take this as an analogy - the electromagnetic spectrum of light as we know it as the vehicle for consciousness to travel - is the idea I'm arguing. Our mind and bodies are the vehicles - which use air, water, food, and consciousness to survive. Radio waves and other spectrum of light in the electromagnetic field carry information in ways that are material with subatomic particles, photons and neutrons, or even neutrinos (electrically neutral). If all living mammals, animals, and other plant life as we know it are seemingly dead because there is no observed electrical firing or growth happening we can sense, this does not exclude consciousness from permeating all things transparently and being in and of itself non-physically. This universe is evolving chaotically, yet in order. Supernatural phenomenon, superstitions, and incredulous belief in faith combined with ritual are the powers of religions. I don't deny the truths of religions. Philosophy may be akin to religion in some sense of belief, but follows an evolution of reasoning over time that sets precedent ideas for the foundation of knowledge. Those ideas that stand the test of time as we know it remain true. Science itself, by definition, defines truths based on empirical evidence we observe, as well as following rules of mathematics. The universe is as chaotic as it is orderly, so all truth is not based in analogous problem solving. Probability and Statistics are the only mathematics applicable to philosophy perhaps. One age old reliable truth of reasoning in philosophy states, "The only thing that is constant is change" - Heraclitus. With hope, I've not just persuaded anyone reading this that consciousness is ever present self-aware, seamlessly transparent, and non-physical in our Universe, but they are able to sense that to be true themselves undeniably. I suppose the idea of going to heaven or hell is open to another debate in the religious category or metaphysical one. For the sake of your religious argument and believing in the theory of a heaven and hell, it sounds like a fearsome tale. Religare means to bind up the broken off parts that have fallen off. In the sense of religion, to bind the broken off parts of society gone astray or lost. The fearsome tale of going to hell unless one believes in the herd, is interesting. I think to myself, might as well believe, just to spare myself the chance of ending up in Dante's inferno with all that pain and suffering. The only pain and suffering I know of is not being honest with oneself and to believe in oneself, as well as others. It's difficult to honestly know how to have compassion for others unless one has been through some form of hardship and came out of it by learning to have compassion for their own self. Either people are of the nature to get the better of others or to do well toward others. Those that do well toward others seem to be happier, more conscientious, healthier themselves, and continue with good intention. Heaven and hell both exist in the eternal ring of fire, as they do here on Earth. If suffering and fear were non-existent, we would not know the validity of being alive and that love it is real to us, so that is a gift in itself.