Who am I? continuation...

These thoughts are in continuation to my previous post "Who am I" in
http://chandra-superman.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-am-i.html

This may be the boundary between today's Science and olden days beliefs, myths and philosophies (if at all the below mentioned thoughts are true (I don't know!), may they become truth's accepted by Science someday in future?)

Let's say, the "I" in me is my soul ("Atma")... and, my current body is just an avatar... this body can be in the form of human or horse or elephant or mosquito or cockroach or fish or frog or bacteria etc.

When the body is not useful anymore (we call this death), will the Atma immediately find another body to get in? which body? does it select the body of human or horse or mosquito or bacteria or something else? will it select its body on this earth or some other planet of some other star or some other galaxy or other universe (another place in multiverse?)? will the Atma select itself or God will select?

By any chance, is this selection based on the deeds done by the bodies of this Atma's previous lifes? Is there some amount carry-over to next lifes? how many number of future lifes? is there some quantification like so much of good-deeds and so much of bad-deeds etc?

First of all, why should there be discrimination among these bodies? By definition, Atma not supposed to make any discrimination towards various life forms... for God, all are equal (is it so?)

Is there some time-gap between lifes? What is Atma doing in this time gap? Is this we call "Ghost" stage? Then, why are we afraid of ghosts?

Is the death of a body and the creation of next body for Atma pre-planned by its Atma or God? When, some accident (not planned by Atma or God!!) happen, the next body is not yet ready, and the Atma has to wait for some time (or the original end time)? Is this the ghost stage?

In my childhood stories, I read a lot about "Para-Kaya-Pravesam" - meaning, the Soul can enter another Body. Some learned people, leave their still good and alive body, and enter some dead-body for some time, and comeback to their original body. So, they can enter another body without the need to leave current body... without becoming ghosts.

I have one curious question? what happens all those souls in countless number of bodies on the earth, when some mass sudden-death (like asteroid stike, or some nuclear blast etc) happens? By definition, Atma can't be destroyed by fire or any other destructive form. So, only bodies are destroyed, and all those billions and billions of souls become ghosts? May be that, God will immediately create a huge bacteria colony temporarily for all these souls to occupy? Or, do they really need some body?

- that which is born, shall die - - that which dies, shall be born -
--- this is the endless cycle for souls ---
--- poor souls!!! they are caught in God's Game!!! ---

One more question (never ending questions!!) - How many Gods playing this Game? Is there only one God or many?

Who am I?

Who am "I"?
I am Chandra... I am Engineer... I am Human... I am Animal... I am Life... I am x... I am y...
I am my Body... I am my Brain... I am my Mind...
I am my Soul... I am God...

There are so many Chandras, so many Engineers, so many Humans... so many so many.... they are not "I"...
So who am I? Am I my Body? Am I my Brain?

Well... lets see...
Body = Integration of Body parts, which makes me... individual body parts are part of me... none of them individually is me... body parts can be replaced... robotic hand for example... hands, legs, eyes, ears, heart, kidney, lungs etc are being replaced with artificial parts or parts from other humans/animals... most of the parts in our stomach are for digesting food and generating and distributing energy... energy used by our hands to do work... our legs to take us around... our senses to sense external world... these sensors (eyes, ears etc) can be replaced with artificial sensors, energy for them can be supplied with batteries...
So, what is remaining? Brain. Brain "thinks" I have to go there - legs will take us there. Brain thinks I have to do this - hands will do that... etc.

Also, our body is a small world to many bacterias and their colonies... only 10% of our cells are ours... "Human beings are not really individuals; they're communities of organisms".
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/0252219

So, am I simply my "Brain"?

What is Brain? A very complex organ, which gathers information from sensors, stores that information, processes that information... triggers actions...
All these can be done an "Artificial Brain" (Machine + Artificial Intelligence) which can gather information, store, process... Am I replaceable with "Artificial Brain"? "I" hope not.

Am I my "Mind"?

Emotions/feelings/love/anger/happiness/hate/greed... are these simply chemical reactions? Can we attribute them to Mind? Is it my "Mind" triggering these in "Brain"... then I am not my "Brain"... I am my "Mind"... my Mind can control an "Artificial Brain" which can gather information, store, process... trigger actions...
Who triggers Emotions/feelings in my Mind? Other Minds. I see so much of this in this world.

So far the discussion is Materialistic... Practical... The border case between Brain and Mind...
Now, it takes new way of thinking...

Is the following maturity level order holds good?
Body -> Brain -> Mind -> Soul -> God.

"I" do not know.