(April 1, 2016 at 6:16 pm)chasbanner Wrote: Ben Davis: Are you saying a copy could not be identical in form...I'm saying that even if a copy could be identical, undetectable by others as a copy, it would still not be 'you' and both you & the copy would have individual, several, subjective consciousnesses, each of which would cease at brain death.
Quote:...or are you insisting on an continuous existence?Reincarnation, by definition, is a continuous existence of the individual, subjective consciousness. It's a form of 'eternal afterlife' that seems utterly impossible given what neurology can tell us about subjective experience of consciousness and its cessation.
Sum ergo sum
