Religion
In reply to the discussion: Dawkins and Pell battle it out in one hell of a debate [View all]eqfan592
(5,963 posts)We still don't have a working definition of what "consciousness" is, if that is what you are getting at. But what we do know is when a person dies, that consciousness ceases to be as far as we can measure, and we have yet to see evidence of consciousness existing elsewhere outside of a biological mechanism.
If you want to claim that consciousness can exist elsewhere and/or be returned in some form, then you need to define a mechanism for its being able to do so (something a certain somebody we were discussing up-thread has failed to do, which is another major strike against him), and have a testable means of proving its existence.
EDIT: Actually, forget the mechanism, even just demonstrating that it can and has happened would be enough to show it is possible, even if we don't yet understand the mechanism.