Death and Conscience
“We have always been and will always be part of positive existence, even when humans are no more, everything that we are made of will remain.”
Dear Reader,
Where does the light go when a light bulb breaks?
This is the question I tend to think of when wondering about what happens to our conscience once we are deceased. My current understanding of conscience is that it is the product of neural activity and energy that is conducted throughout the body and mind, like how light is the product of electrical energy conducted through the light bulb. This leads me to envision that the literal answer to where the light goes when the bulb is broken could be a genuinely useful tool in understanding what may come of our conscience after death.
From what I gathered, the simple answer to this question is that when a light bulb breaks, the light from the bulb is then absorbed by the surrounding environment. The light that had been conducted through the light bulb does not cease to exist, but instead is converted into other forms of energy and scattered in different directions.
Now what we are left with is a broken bulb that is no longer in a state functional enough to conduct electrical energy, much like a dead body that is no longer in a state functional enough to conduct the energy that produces our conscience. Though the energy that produced the light conducted through the light bulb is still in existence, scattered among the surrounding environment, similar to how I would assume the energy that produces our conscience would still be in existence.
Continuing with our light bulb analogy, I would like to point out that the energy in a functional light bulb is constantly changing. As the light bulb is in its functional state of conducting electrical energy, the energy conducted is still escaping the bulb to be absorbed by its surrounding environment as new electrical energy gets conducted through the light bulb. I write this to point out that the energy producing our conscience is in a similar motion. So this energy both transcends us in life as it does in death.
This is to say, the energetic activity conducted through our body is not the individual experience of conscience itself. The energetic activity is merely a part of the system that creates our individual experience of conscience. This energy is not in the form of our conscience once released, similar to how the electrical energy conducted through the light bulb transforms into a different form of energy, often heat, and is no longer in the form of light, the energy that flows through our body and mind will no longer be in the form of our individual experience of conscience.
Death is the disassembling of the energies that create our conscience, but physically, nothing ceases to exist after death. Which leaves me to wonder…
Is death the end to our individual experience of life?
Sincerely yours,
Leora
