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>Do you have any theories on how consciousness can exist without a physical brain?
Not that Anon but look into panpsychism. It sounds like some esoteric pseudoscientfic bullshit when you hear the name, but it's actually a decent hypothesis. There is no evidence against conciousness being a fundametal property of matter, much like other fundamental properties like gravity, and it's pretty in line with things like "consciousness causes collapse" interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's also in line with materialism. The brain could simply be an organ that evolved to harness this property in a way that is conductive to survival, much like the others. Organisms only really evolve the nervous system primarily for locomotion from what we observed.
That said, this still implies whatever post mortem experience that may exist will be nothing like what we experience right now. It would most likely be free of all emotions, desires etc. that are governed by the brain. So "you" as a person will most likely still be gone, but experience doesn't necessarily end. For all we know all matter has some sort of rudimentary experience that simply cannot be expressed.
