RE: Reincarnation of the consciousness is inevitable
September 15, 2012 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2012 at 4:20 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Yes I know that.
You didn't understand what I meant. Why aren't I you, rather than me? Why am I this consciousness in this body.
If I can experience this consciousness in this body, and let's face it it has happened!...what is there to say that I might not experience the consciousness in another body in another time?
You are a consciousness in your body because it is your body that manufactured and supported your consciousness. Why is this pair of rabbit's ears on this rabbit and not on that one? Because it is this rabbit's body that grew these particular ears. Simple enough?
To the OP, if you clone the rabbit, the ears don't reincarnate. There are now simply two pairs of identical ears. If you kill the rabbit, catalogue every atom in its body, clone a new rabbit out of the very same atoms, you would still have just another pair of identical ears. An atom is an atom. Whether it is the very same atom or just another identical atom, is of olympian indifference to the thing of which the atom is a part.
