RE: A physical argument for an afterlife
March 15, 2015 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2015 at 3:04 pm by Jenny A.)
(March 15, 2015 at 3:12 am)Alex K Wrote:(March 14, 2015 at 11:19 pm)Jenny A Wrote: That's pretty much it. It might make my nearest and dearest happier, but it wouldn't do anything for me personally. I'd be gone, gone, gone.
The you from yesterday might have suffered the same fate, and you might be going to as well, in a moment. Who says there is now the type of personal continuity we desire , without uploading or duplicating. Is it a testable notion whether this continuity of the self as you desire it even exists?
I doubt very much that my notion of continuity of self is testable. What would be the difference from the outside between me, and an exact replica of me with all my memories? So, no, I can't be truly certain of that continuity. But, I'm pretty certain that there would be no continuity between me and a replica of me.
Start asking what me is, and things get more complicated. Look at what we know of how the brain works and finding a unified me at all gets sketchy.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
