The Afterlife.net

Chris: "Well your consciousness and memories have to go somewhere."

Ben: "Why?"

C: "Because brainwaves are energy and energy can't be destroyed."

B: "But consciousness isn't the energy -- consciousness is energy interacting with cells and chemicals. Cells and chemicals both can be destroyed. You're saying that you can move a grindstone with water but no water-wheel."

C: "But the energy takes on the traits of the memories. So it can go into something else. Or someone else. And they would experience the memories contained in the energy."

B: "No they wouldn't. The energy itself might go into someone else, but once it gets there it'll only fire the synapses of the other person and fuel the feeling of the other person's own memories."

C: "But the information is in the energy."

B: "No it's not. Hmm. Say you take a computer that can syphon energy through the air to power itself. If you place it beside another computer, it could take the other computer's electricity but it couldn't read the other computer's data because the data is in the hard drive, not in the electricity that powers the hard drive."

Chris: "It could if it had a wireless network."

Ben: "..................................... Touche."