All thinking is based on chemical-electric processes - so I'd say it's fair to say that consciousness = energy.
This is not fair to say. Hardware and a currently running program are not the same thing.
If I throw a fork at a wall the fork is not conscious. Energy may be a requirement in order to have consciousness, which would only make sense, but energy is != consciousness. The electricity from my wall is not conscious...it has no independant thought.
The people who say there is no death or there is life after death because energy is never "lost" have completely lost the plot.
Energy is neither life, nor consciousness (whose definition has much more to do with self awareness and the ability for at least a perceived independant thought).
When I unplug my computer it does not still work just because the energy has not technically been "lost"...and when I eat a fish the fish does indeed lose its consciousness and die...assuming you believe that animals have consciousness.
