Thank you for the welcome :)

I've just realised this is your forum :lol: I'll see myself out

I don't want to fall out as you provided me insight into my own bias and I am grateful for that.

However, the question was "how" do you know?

You have not answered this already.

I could choose a less popular idea if you prefer?

The point was that you cannot be sure you are "a body, which very importantly includes a brain."

I personally downloaded your consciousness into a computer, after you died (in the traditional sense) on May 24th 2020.

The technology to do so has not yet become apparent to the mainstream, but I am a pioneer.

You think nothing has changed, but you are living in an exact simulation of your life before death.

Everything you ever were, or will be, is in my code.

Now you have something that speaks against it. Please prove me otherwise.

As a real world example, how do you think the apartheid would have played out with that mentality?

You picked up on some bias' in my question that I had not :)

However;

How can you be so sure you are a body "which very importantly includes a brain"?

I found that quite thought provoking. Why is loathing not productive, except at least a starting point?



I probably would have picked an argument other than "medicine". What's the point in living longer in a world you loathe?

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Advice from someone who has felt the same way;

Think hard about why you are scared of being alone. Think hard about why you want to get paid well. Think hard about what is unnatural.

When you're done with that... tell me how you feel, since I'm still mulling it over.