This post goes way back to the beginning of class and ties in to some of the other philosophy classes I've taken. I've been thinking about this almost all semester and still don't really have a good way of wording my question but I'll try anyway. I've been wondering about souls and what makes us individuals. Some might say it's the specific electrical patterns in our brains, the ways our neurons are intertwined. Most AI scifi stories that I've come across seem to rely on this idea for the positronic brain of their aindroids. Data is a good example as well as the librarian from The Time Machine. Both have a central computing center that is the "brain" of the entity. Both of these characters can also be turned off and on and they don't really know about the passage of time while they are turned off until they are turned back on again. My ultimate question here is whether or not you think that we are like that. The Bible seems to indicate in Revelations that we die and then come back at the resurrection. If that is how things work with being dead, then what do you supposed happens when we're dead? If we really aren't anything more than the electrical impulses in our brains do we realize when we are dead that we are dead? Or is it just like going to sleep and not dreaming and then waking up at the resurrection?

I don't expect us to agree on this, but if we do then great. Let me know what you think.