Proof that I'm immortal

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

What Mathilda said.  If I have a plank of wood and reduce it to sawdust, it is still wood, but no longer a plank - the pattern is broken.  Similarly, what makes you 'you' isn't just matter and energy, it is a particular configuration of matter and energy. When you die and that particular configuration no longer exists, neither do you.

Boru

The you as an embryo....the you as a child....the you as an old man.....the you as energy floating in a sea of more energy , is the same energy that made you as an embryo and so on. We are always in a state of change.

I agree that 'you'ness is not a static state (and said as much in another thread), but it does imply a certain continuity of 'self'.  Since consciousness depends on a certain configuration of a functioning brain, the end of that configuration (what makes you 'you')marks the end of 'you'.  If you had titled this thread 'Proof That The Energy That Constitutes Me Is Immortal', you wouldn't hear a people out of me.  But that is hardly the same as you being immortal, is it?

Boru

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Makes it rather stupid to claim you  are immortal then, dunnit?

Boru

It seems special to me because I can fathom it.

You fathom that energy can neither be created nor destroyed?  Bit late to the party, aren't you?

Boru