How Is Life After Death Possible?, Where can the spirit be found?

What is it that continues to exist after death? If death is survived by a 
spirit or whatever you want to call it, then what is it made out of? Where 
can it be found and how does it connect to everthing else we know about 
ourselves? How do we know?

Now that I have asked the quetions, I will put forward my answers to these 
questions for you to consider as well.

I will call the existence after death the spirit. And I propose that is made 
out of energy like everything else, but not a part of the measurable 
conserved energy, which the physical universe is made of. This energy which 
the spirit is made of, is given form by the choices we make. These choices 
are events with both physical and non-physical components.

I will describe the physical component first:

Living is a non-linear process that creates points of bifurcation where a 
quantum wave collapse is amplified to macroscopic consequences. The result is 
an event which has no pre-existing cause. Human consciousness identifies 
these events (which we call our actions and choices) as caused by the self, 
and our sense of self come from its identification as the cause of these 
events. Therefore the self and its actions are not in a traditional cause 
effect relationship, but are an example of self-causality, which means both 
the cause and the effect come into existence simultaeously. When we make a 
choice, we also simultaneously choose the reasons which are the cause of our 
choice. 

These self caused events transform the unverse as the usual type of cause and 
effect travel outward from these events at the speed of light. This is the 
true arrow of time, for the quantum wave collapse is not reversible. 
Particles are represented by waves (from which a probability distribution can 
be computed) which collapse instantly to point (according to that probability 
distribution), but the point (highly localized wave packet) cannot 
un-collapse. The localized wave packet cannot instantly revert to the 
non-localized wave, for the wave packet cannot expand faster than the speed 
of light. It must expand accoriding to Schrodinger's equation.

The physical consists of energy which is bound in a single definite 
(macroscopically four dimensional) mathematical form which we call the 
universe. Everthing physical is an inseperable piece of this whole, bound by 
the laws which are its shape and form. The energy is bound to this form by 
the limits described by quantum mechanics. What do I mean? Well for example 
the energy is bound to a definite quantifiable amount. So we say that energy 
is conserved. However energy is bound to this quantity only within 
macroscopic limits defined by quantum mechanics. According to quantum 
mechanics, during shorter intervals of time (dt) an amount of energy dE need 
not be conserved according to (dE)(dt)=plank's constant. Here is the real 
boundary of the physical universe. It is not out there somewhere, but 
everywhere.

The non-physical consists of energy which not bound to this single unified 
quantifiable form. The non-physical can interact with the physical only at 
the boundary, which means that it can only interact within the limits set 
down by quantum mechanics. The choices of living beings which we described 
above occur at this boundary and the formless nonphysical causes of our 
actions are given form by our choices. It is this form which we call the 
spirit. The spirit is not a piece of the physical universe and so it is not 
bound by the laws of its form. The spirit is only bound by the laws of it own 
form, which if you remember, I said was created by the choices of the living 
creature which indentifies it as the cause of its actions.

How do I know all this? The same way I "know" anything else. It is consistent 
with my experience of reality. Is any knowledge certain? No. For example, I 
"know" the sun exists. But everything I have experienced in life could be a 
dream and when I wake up I may find out that there is no sun after all. The 
simple point of fact is that regardless of whether my experiences are "real" 
or not, the existence of the sun is consistent with those experiences. 
Knowledge is something we take for granted in order to live our lives. It is 
an hypothesis that we accept on faith, so that our minds can reason, because 
reason cannot find any beginning. Logic only goes from postulates to 
conclusions. Reason must start from somewhere and we must take our starting 
point on faith.

Further explanation of some points:

Living is a non-linear process? 

I am saying that the process which we call living, and therefore which all 
living things are always doing, satisfies the description in chaotic dynamics 
of systems which are non-linear. The idea is that science has long assumed 
(in its mathematical methods) that small perturbations, changes, differences 
which are everywhere like noise can be ignored because in the long run they 
all average out and have no effect on what happens on a larger scale. Science 
has routinely approximated complicated (nonlinear) equations with linear 
approximations. The advent of chaotic dynamics came when the pioneers of this 
field realized that nonlinear systems had properties that the linear 
approximations did not. Whereas in linear equations noise is damped out, in 
non-linear equations the noise is often amplified with results that are 
seemingly unpredictable and infinitely complicated (like the mandelbrot set). 
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points of bifurcation? 
 
Bifurcation is a phenomena described in chaos theory where changes in the 
environment of a nonlinear system pushes the system toward an interesting 
change. At first the system will oscillate between two possible structures or 
results until the driving environmental change forces it to choose one 
result/structure or the other. One place you can read about all this is James 
Gleick's bestselling book "Chaos: making a new science". He talks about 
bifurcation in his third chapter. 

Where a quantum wave collapse is amplified to macroscopic consequences? 

Erwin Schrodinger wrote a small booket (I cannot recall the name of that 
book), where he argued that quantum indeterminacy had no impact on everyday 
life because the quantum fluxuations all averaged out . In other words, he 
was saying that the unpredictable fluxuations in the microscopic reality of 
quantum mechanics had no effect on the events of the macroscopic reality of 
our everday experiences. 

The indeterminacy in quantum physics is found in events called a wave 
collapse, which happens when you make a measurement of something which 
quantum physics describes as a probability distribution. The measurement 
gives definite results but these results are only predictable in the sense 
that over many such measurements they obey the probability distribution. What 
is it about the measuring process that causes a quantum wave to collapse? 
Well any measuring process has to amplify the properties of quantum sized 
objects into something we can see. This means there must be an interaction 
where the quantum sized object affects the behavior of billions of particles. 
Apparently this interaction with billions of particles makes the one particle 
lose its quantum character somewhat for an instant. 

With the advent of chaotic dynamics, Schrodinger's argument fell apart. 
Ilya Prigogine proved that in order to predict the result of some nonlinear 
processes you have to specify the initial conditions to an infinite degree of 
precision. But according to quantum mechanics the initial conditions to an 
infinite degree of precision simply do not exist. This means that non-linear 
process can do exactly what quantum measurements do, which is to amplify a 
quantum wave collapse into the behavior of the billions of particles in a 
macroscopic event. 

Knowledge is something we take for granted in order to live our lives? 
 
In other words we don't bother ourselves about the possiblity that the sun 
might not exist because it doesn't help us in living our daily lives. There 
are countless numbers of things like this which we simply take for granted or 
on faith, simply because it is more helpful to do so than to continue in 
doubt.