RE: Is my argument against afterlife an equivocation fallacy?
June 18, 2023 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2023 at 4:13 pm by FlatAssembler.)
(June 18, 2023 at 3:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 18, 2023 at 3:57 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: A better explanation for the fact that human beings who wake up from a coma have no idea how much time has passed.
What would that have to do with whether a soul or an afterlife exists? Who says souls have to keep track or time or impart memories?
This might make more sense if you started out by saying what you think a soul is and what qualities it would have.
Boru
A soul is some immaterial entity that is you. In order for something to be you, it needs to have your memories. That's how identity is defined in modern philosophy, as psychological continuity.
EDIT: And I think that, for something to be you, it needs to sense the passage of time, don't you think? You cannot be some timeless entity, a timeless entity would have a completely different experience than you have. Not to mention souls being timeless creates a bunch of problems: If souls are timeless, how it is that you cannot remember future events? How does a brain interact with a timeless soul?
