Parallel Universes & Consciousness Immortality

 

What happens when we die? Beyond consciousness lies the problem of what happens when it all seemingly goes away upon death. “Brain death” is officially recognized as:

The Diagnosis of Brain Death^[2]

 “The irreversible loss of all functions of the brain, including the brain stem. The three essential findings in brain death are coma, absence of brain stem reflexes, and apnoea^[1]. A patient determined to be brain dead is legally and clinically dead.”

 When this happens, there is nothing we can measure that indicates any level of consciousness whatsoever, and for all intents and purposes this lack of awareness is irreversible. Most often, brain death occurs when extreme damage is caused to the brain itself, either via trauma or prolonged oxygen starvation and cell death. Based on this evidence, the self, and the consciousness and awareness that comes with it, seems to exist in the structure of the brain. When the physical clump of neurons and lipids that is “us” becomes ruined, “we” no longer exist.

 In fact, the brain is a hard drive, and when it is destroyed, everything it contains is destroyed as well. However, if that is the case, could consciousness be replicated? Is it possible to download or copy the mind in some way?

Let's note first the following:

 “A complete map of the human brain containing detailed information about each neuron and synapse would occupy about 20,000 terabytes and require 1016 flops (floating point operations per second) of processing power to function. Currently, only the world’s fastest supercomputer possesses the capability of crunching that many numbers in a second.”^[3]

 

Now, if the only thing that makes a person unique is their brain's structure, many scientists think that we will eventually be able to create copies of ourselves as a result of super technological advances.

 When a person's structure collapses, the person is gone for good. So, rebuilding the structure would not be resurrecting the lost consciousness from "the dead.” Instead, it would merely be creating a clone of that individual with the memories and personality equivalent to that individual whenever the complete copying of her/his brain occurred.

 If there is a “missing ingredient” that results in consciousness and that is responsible for making you “you”, something that cannot be recreated by just rebuilding an exact structure of neurons, we may be out of luck when it comes to these options. We may find we can copy the structure and information of a mind, but when we “boot” it up all we see is hard data, and a complete lack of anything like self-awareness.

one of this takes the concept of the soul into consideration. This takes us beyond the realm of what is scientifically possible. If a consciousness is an immortal soul that departs the body upon death and enters another realm, logic would dictate that the soul cannot be retrieved. The concept of a soul has nothing to do with modern science, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. For example, we know that electricity exists, but who can tell what electricity is in essence, other than its effects? While our current understanding of physics indicates that this is not possible, it is food for thought. At the same time, based on current science, retrieving consciousness from the dead does not appear to be possible — at best, we might hope to clone a consciousness.

 Neuralink’s mission^[4], and the mission of others involved in brain-machine interfaces, may hold the ultimate key to closing the gaps that appear insurmountable right now.

Elon Musk's Neuralink initiatives aim to create implantable brain-computer interfaces. The initial goal will be to provide treatments for brain and nervous system disorders, with the eventual path leading to enhancing normally-functioning brains — for example, increasing memory and processing speed, adding built-in cloud and internet access, and expanding our senses. Though these ambitions are admirable and will help many people suffering from degenerative diseases and mental health issues, there is another goal to which Neuralink's efforts will contribute significantly.

 To accomplish what the Neuralink team desires, the technology required will likely be advanced enough to shed more light on our understanding of consciousness. Scientists will be able to study and interact with the human mind in ways that will allow them to correlate physical, chemical, and electromagnetic interactions all at once for the first time.

 To be immortal, consciousness must likely be uninterrupted, sustained, and continuous. We will need to redesign our humanity in order to reach zero-downtime consciousness, and a hybrid computer existence may be the solution.

So far, so good, but it's worth mentioning a recently published book in the United States^[5]  under the title: "How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe “.

 The book has sparked debate in social and scientific circles because it concludes that death is a hoax and that life does not end with death but is eternal. The book's author is the brilliant scientist Robert Lanza, who is a world-renowned stem cell researcher and one of the most important contemporary physicians in the field of biomedicine (regenerative medicine)^[6], as well as his successful cloning experiments with endangered animal species.

 In addition to the foregoing, Professor Lanza's deep expertise in physics, quantum mechanics, and space science has resulted in his significant contribution to the birth of the new science known as biocentrism, which considers life to be the centre of the natural world.

 Lanza concluded that death is nothing more than people's belief that their existence is dependent on the existence of their bodies, and that their consciousness will end when these bodies are destroyed, but consciousness exists outside of time and space, and perhaps we as human beings lie within time and space as the turtle lies hidden under its shield: An event could occur in different ways in parallel universes at the same time, causing the body and consciousness to die in one universe and reappear in another, and this process could be repeated indefinitely.

 This theory has been supported not only by the public who hope for another life after death, but also by many distinguished intellectuals and scholars. The science fiction writer H.G. Wells was the first to allude to this idea in his novel “The Door in the Wall”, and the idea was put back in a new, developed suit in a project at Princeton University, England. In the 1980s, the scientist Andre Linde of Stanford University, United States, developed the theory of multiple universes, which says that the entire natural Universe consists of other universes than ours that are completely isolated from each other and at the same time exist in parallel.

 You could be reading this article in this world while watching television in another parallel universe. The reason for the multiplicity of options for events resulting from certain actions is ourselves: every decision we make sends several results into the world, each of which appears in a world that is independent of and parallel to the other.

 This theory could now be supported by data from the Planck Space Telescope. Using information obtained from this telescope about the cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), which is a remnant from an early stage of the Universe, scientists created a map that is most important for radioactivity that remained after the big bang, showing the existence of corridors, black holes, and heterogeneity in the distribution of radioactivity.

 As a result, awareness will find many worlds to which it can be transmitted after death, but how will this be accomplished?

 According to a group of scientists, the human brain is a typical quantum computer. However, the spirit or consciousness is simply information stored in quantum form in the brain: it moves to merge with this world forever after the body dies. Professor Lanza differs from the other scientists in his belief that the soul moves to another world after the body dies and remains immortal forever.

Supported by the distinguished mathematician Roger Penrose of Oxford University in England, the two scientists are working on a revolutionary new theory to explain the nature of consciousness, based on the fact that consciousness neurons are in protein-based microtubules, which, when the living cell was at its inception, contributed to the preservation and transmission of information on the structure and development of the primitive cell.

We ponder whether the concepts we have explored are mere flights of science fiction or illusions, or if they hold genuine significance. Near-death experiences (NDEs) might serve as compelling evidence of the soul’s immortality beyond death.

Finally, It is remarkable that the Holy Qur'an explicitly acknowledges the existence of realms beyond our own, inhabited by beings who recognize and seek God through their acts of worship and prostration, both day and night. This profound truth is articulated in verse 15 of Surat Al-Infitar, which states: 

"And to God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or by compulsion, and so do their shadows in the mornings and the evenings."

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[1] . Sleep apnoea is when your breathing stops and starts while you sleep.

[2] . Indian J Crit Care Med. 2009 Jan-Mar; 13(1): 7–11.

doi: 10.4103/0972-5229.53108

[3] . Downloading Consciousness, Jordan Inafuku, Katie Lampert, Brad Lawson, Shaun Stehly, Alex Vaccaro, Technology and Research.

[4] .  The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain chip startup is preparing to launch clinical trials in humans. Musk, who co-founded Neuralink in 2016, has promised that the technology “will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs

[5] . Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe Paperback – May 18, 2010

by Robert Lanza (Author), Bob Berman (Author)

[6] . Stem cells are the body's raw materials — cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated. Under the right conditions in the body or a laboratory, stem cells divide to form more cells called daughter cells.