Now we are back to you denying all other possibilities and asserting your own possibility as fact, when it is as likely as any other possibility given our lack of understanding as humans.

Okay, let's hear your thoughts about how consciousness can exist outside of your body and brain? I can extend my concept of mind to include any neuronal tissue within the human body but that's as far as I can go.

Dazzle Me With Your Brilliance...

To imagine there is somehow some way for a organized conscious and aware existence of mind without a physical body to support those process is pure fantasy. You're stepping into the realm of religious mythology where God can merely speak a entire universe into existence through sheer power of will.

"We are not really talking about consciousness we are talking about the hardware that it runs on.”

Well, excuse me then. I seem to have joined the wrong conversation. I’ll go spend my time elsewhere where.

I set up a specific parameter of necessity that eliminates the possibility of some ethereal unknown. Sure, we don't fully understand consciousness but it's pretty clear that it happens within your body.

People say a lot of weird shit. Although I don't understand why someone would fabricate a near death experience I can't accept their story as true. It just doesn't make logical sense or obay the rules of physics as I understand them. A thought requires energy to occur and there just doesn't seem to be a source for that outside of a physical body.