If electrical currents run through our body and our brain and energy never disappears or dissipates?

Question

If electrical currents run through our body and brain, and energy never disappears or dissipates, it just moves or changes form. When we die, is this what makes a ghost?

Answer 1

I wish we had an explanation for what makes a ghost.  There is just no way of knowing for sure.  It is a very good theory if you think of the human body as a machine only.  Are you just a machine or are you something more?

Answer 2

That's not how it works. Energy changes form and moves, it wouldn't stay grouped together after we die. Sorry.

Answer 3

I have a blog entry on that, linked below. Basically you can think of the body as a power station, taking in fuel and producing energy that body uses to perform tasks. Chemical energy is converted into heat energy, mechanical energy and electrical energy. When the fuel (food) stops coming in and the body dies, the energy conversion stops as well. Current reservoirs of energy now have no system to keep them resupplied, and so the energy diffuses from high temperature to low temperature, from high chemical potential to low chemical potential, etc. In other words, the body decays and the energy and mass is converted into other forms of energy (via decay, bacterial growth, etc) that disperses throughout the environment. It's all very well explained by thermodynamics. There isn't any mysterious loss of energy that thermodynamics can't account for.

Answer 4

Nope the ghost comes from the soul or spirit that inhabited the body.

Answer 5

there is a scientific study somewhere that proves that people can manifest things ... females more than males. Something about females hold things inside and that energy builds up and manifests itself into a ghost or energy ... what ever you believe in. It was on the news and a few news web sights a few months ago.

Answer 6

it's not really electrical energy, it's chemical

Answer 7

The electric currents running through our bodies and brains are the result of chemical reactions.

And of course, some of the chemicals are leftover after our death, as well, the electric currents would have been lost as heat most likely.

So I suppose you could call the remaining energy a 'ghost' but then you could just as easily call a muffin a ghost, since it too is made of chemicals and could have been heated by an electric oven.

In fact, everything would be a ghost in that case (radio waves, plastic chairs, yogurt, concrete blocks, t-shirts etc) everything is made of chemicals and contains electric energy.

Answer 8

I learned from church that our souls immediatly are taken to heaven or the other place. I don't think ghosts exist. Electrical currents I think would evaperate like water and no one can see it or would desolve like our decomposing bodies.