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The actual death comes, when your brain stops mixing its chemicals. That would be BRAIN-DEAD. That comes several minutes after your lungs and heart stop.
My theory goes that the brain is only mixing chemicals, because you're eternal spirit <that is in us all> is actually sending signals to mix those chemicals.
Once that spirit is gone, then the chemicals stop and they declare you dead. lol
It has nothing to do with a spirit making sure chemicals are being released and mixed, that happens through signals. You might wonder where these signals come from, well apparently it's a system that runs on O2 and a lot of different kind of sensors give input to our brains. Well, the brain simply hás to react to those inputs and signals and more or less "requests" for 'chemicals' to be released. It's heavily based upon reaction I guess. Still, we can't quite locate and extract the exact 'thoughts' from brains yet, but we know a lot about it and when what is active.
By the way, as for dying, as long as there's O2 in the brains it'll keep on being "active" for a while. Usually for about 4 minutes. Getting decapitated will be a nasty death since you'll be able to think for another 2 minutes or so before enough stopped functioning to be able to stop 'knowing'.
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You know, after your heart has stopped pumping blood, and your brain dies, therefor it cant do anything...
True, however the remaining blood in the brain has still some O2 in it, after that's been used in the brain, the brain will stop functioning completely.
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I don't think so. Believing that all your emotions, thoughts, ideas and stuff are produced by your brain is like believing that car is controlled by the engine, or PC is controlled by CPU...of course engine and CPU are most important parts of car and PC, but there's a human that takes a REAL control...
It's an illusion called 'consciousness', basically it's still your brain producing your thoughts, storing your memory and so on. Your brain is not a CPU, it's more like a complete computer and it really controls the rest of your body. Most motoric functions are 100% unconsciously controlled. (That's pure awesomeness by the way, since I've recently gotten into doing some hypnosis onto people and make them do funny things hahahha  )
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So in my opinion our brain is like an "engine", and soul is like a "human", controlling our body.
I don't think the 'engine' of a car is a good comparison, especially since it already presumes being controlled,
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Many of us have memories as children of events that could not possibly have occured in their present lifetime, many have 'experiences' that are totally unexplainable and yet many more know deep inside of themselves that accountability at some point will occur, where do we get these from I wonder.
There is a huge difference between what people think having experienced and what really has happened. Sometimes people will vaguely remember thing they actually saw on television when they were a little child for example and at a later age thinking they themselves have experiences those events.
The source of thoughts, ideas or emotions is by far not always our own experience, actually, it's mostly nót from our own experience.
I think we shouldn't underestimate the influence of having dreams either, some dreams feel so real that a couple of years later you might have mixed up some things thinking you have actually experienced it.
Cheers
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