(September 2, 2018 at 5:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
You disrupted the organization of the wood. Until it rots or gets burned, etc., it's still the same wood.