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> > dhw:  You are reiterating your beliefs, but you can&apos;t see the contradiction. If your consciousness and your life emerge from biochemistry, how and in what form do you think your consciousness and your life can survive the death of the chemicals that produce them?-Simply at a quantum level, in the other level of our reality.-For consciousness I still stick to "aware that you are aware" and the following excerpt from a paper I found:-It might be conscious: (a) in the sense that one is conscious of the process (b) in the sense that the operation of the process is accompanied by consciousness (of its results) and  (c) in the sense that consciousness enters into or causally influences the process.-they find many things for phenomenal consciousness to do. For example: 1. By relating input to its context, consciousness defines input, removing its ambiguities in perception and understanding. 2. Consciousness is required for successful problem solving and learning, particularly where novelty is involved. 3. Making an event conscious raises its "access priority," increasing the chances of successful adaptation to that event. 4. Conscious goals can recruit subgoals and motor systems to carry out voluntary acts. Making choices conscious helps to recruit knowledge resources essential to arriving at an appropriate decision. 5. Conscious inner speech and imagery allow us to reflect on and, to an extent, control our conscious and unconscious functioning. 6. In facing unpredictable conditions, consciousness is indispensable in allowing flexible responses. "In sum, consciousness appears to be the major way in which the central nervous system adapts to novel, challenging and informative events in the world" -http://cogprints.org/6453/1/How_to_define_consciousness.pdf