>>16319790>We know from science matter can't be destroyedFor an analogy, if a computer breaks the hardware is still going to exist in some form or another (even if that form is just being part of the junk in a landfill). But your saved Minesweeper game on that computer isn't going to continue on as a new game somewhere else because fundamentally its "existence" was only as a set of processes the hardware participated in rather than as a physical object like the hardware itself i.e. it and software in general is more of a verb than a noun.
Or for those who have kneejerk negative reactions against brain / computer analogies, this idea goes back much further to the ancient Greeks where they used the analogy of a knife being to the body as cutting is to the soul (or "consciousness"). Same idea as the first analogy: Your conscious awareness or soul would be less like an object of its own and more like the action of your body (and brain especially).
A musical instrument vs. a song played by that instrument is another analogy that'd work the same way. Breaking your guitar won't make the music you played on it reincarnate onto someone else's bagpipes. Though you can make an impression on others while alive and just as Beatles songs got spread around everywhere like very infectious venereal diseases your essence can be spread around and live on after your body dies through the influence you have on everyone else in your life.
