I'm not sure why the hangup on semantics and grammar given that you've already pointed out that there is an actual non-semantic possibility here. — coolazice
:100: :fire:Anyone even entertaining the very idea of an 'afterlife' needs to minimally answer the question: what kind of thing is consciousness that it could be detached from a body, and how does or can this relate to what we know of consciousness as it pertains to bodies (i.e. everything we know of consciousness now)? What explanatory mechanism could be, even in principle, be at work here? The second part being the most important issue here. Because with out this, it's word games. — StreetlightX
I know evidence that the conscious mind continues after bodily death is rare and iffy at best. But what type of evidence would be reasonable to convince skeptics that an afterlife probably is a real possibility?
— TiredThinker
Why do you want to convince them? — baker
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