Neanderthal
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Well, I still think it is a unicorn question. First, the consciousness is not static - would be rather pointless if it was. My consciousness in ten years will differ from the one I have right now. Now, moving on to "forever"... Second, shave off the prefrontal cortex. Are you still conscious? If the answer is maybe, pull out the hippocampus, cut the corpus callossum, etc. Still conscious? At some point we loose consciousness - whatever it is defined as. Then only two things can be true: either consciousness is a function of the wireing in the brain and is lost with the brain, or consciousness exists outside the brain and just uses the brainfunctions - if the functions are there. If the last is true, then where was my consciousness before I was born? Maybe in a well behaved fruitfly? Welcome Hindusim, Jainism, etc. I really hate questions that end up in religion.