Where does atheist soul go? when u die ?

zombie_pegasus said:
I believe that the existence of Alzheimer's and amnesia disprove the existence of the afterlife. If people can be stripped of their consciousness before they're even dead then why would people's consciousness move on to a different realm? If someone has amnesia, loses all their memories, then has to develop a new personality would their own self have ascended to heaven? Would people with multiple personality disorder have their personalities separated in heaven or would they still all be in the same person? Would people with Alzheimer's have their soul slowly seep into heaven or would they still have Alzheimer's when they get to heaven? If someone is a gay Christian and they beg Jesus for forgiveness right before they die and are allowed into heaven would they still be gay in heaven? If heaven does exist then why can't why prove its existence?

zombie_pegasus said:
"The brain is greater than the sum of its parts". It seems like you people like this idea. There are even some middle schools where kids are forced to dissect brains of small animals. When the brain is alive and functional it is more valuable than the atoms that its made of. The same is true for anything that is fully functional. If you have an iPhone and smash it until it stops working it is no longer useful. Once it stops working it is no greater than the sum of its parts. The iPhone doesn't have a soul that goes to another realm, it just stops working. It is no longer an iPhone it is just a piece of scrap metal.

Human consciousness is what makes a human more important than a pile of meat. Once the human is dead it is just a pile of meat. I don't get why this is so hard to understand.

zombie_pegasus said:
There is no afterlife. However, our consciousness is built from the neurons in our brain and changes whenever our neurons change ie. all the time. The information in your brain telling you that your current self is the same person as the you of five years ago would be lost with your life so you cannot consider any arrangement of neurons that leaves that information out to be "you". You are only you because you believe you are you. If you lose your memories in the afterlife then a single conscious entity could constitute there being an afterlife.

The human brain is very efficient at storing data and physically it is fairly large. A human brain is around 1.2 litres and there have been around 100 billion humans. The space required to hold this information would be equivalent to 48,000 Olympic sized swimming pools. If there were to be an afterlife, where would all this information be stored? Sure, most people don't fill their entire brain with information, but there's still a lot of information there that must be stored somewhere. The most logical explanation would be for it to be stored in a black hole, but how would it get there in the first place? Hawking radiation also causes some problems with this.

This would also mean that the information going there would be travelling at the speed of light so your afterlife wouldn't start instantly as the nearest black hole is several thousand light years away. If the information doesn't change too much over the journey then it may feel as if no time has passed. The version of you in the afterlife wouldn't technically be the same person, but the information is there to tell it that it is you, so it's close enough. Some of the information will likely be lost along the way so you won't be complete and will likely be missing some memories or possibly even personality traits. What happens in this afterlife is indeterminable but in general it's fairly irrelevant. Because of Hawking radiation some key parts of the world will be lost over time so the world will not stay the same. Building too complex of structures in this world could lead to changing information about the people living there depending on how the information is stored. The population size will change and even if the residents don't physically change over time you'll know how long they've been there based on how much information they still have about their original life. Just like with dementia everyone's brains will slowly break down. This is the only possible afterlife I can think of.