[tlocke]

It seems that when you die, memory and the capacity for thought are irretrievably lost. It seems that consciousness is separate from memory and thinking. What happens to consciousness when we die? It's reasonable to think the same thing happens as when we're unconscious. It seems that being unconscious (through sleep or aneasthetic or some other method) is a reversible death. Maybe consciousness is always there, but experiencing something else, just not our brains?

[polishdude20]

Why would consciousness be different from memory and thinking? I don't think there's even an agreement on what consciousness IS. Or even, is consciousness even a thing? Or is it a label we give ourselves to separate us from other things?