I do too. But for me that "afterlife" does not include my ego--the Subject,"I"--nor any of its Narrative. So, admittedly this is that ego taliking: thanks but no thanks. — ENOAH
I feel you brother! — ENOAH
Consciousness doesn't, on it's face, consist in memories, so I see no reason to have them at-base. — AmadeusD
If memories aren't preserved in my after-life consciousness, in what sense is that still me? It hardly seems like something to look forward to.Consciousness doesn't, on it's face, consist in memories, so I see no reason to have them at-base — AmadeusD
If memories aren't preserved in my after-life consciousness, in what sense is that still me? It hardly seems like something to look forward to. — Relativist
Me (now) is not identical to the me of yesteday, much less to the infant me of 70 years ago.
I take the identity of indiscernibles seriously: entities x and y are identical if every predicate possessed by x is also possessed by y and vice versa — Relativist
In terms of strict identity, we can consider ourselves AT a point of time: RogueAI at t1 is identical to RogueAI at t1.But you can never be identical to yourself in even the shortest amounts of time — RogueAI
Perhaps it reincarnates in a knew infant. — Relativist
Or it could be considered a discontinuity: you are being destroyed and a new entity, an exact physical copy, is being produced. I tend to think there's no right answer; all answers are paradigm dependent.In the Teletransporter cases, someone who is not you, is exactly continuous with you. — AmadeusD
It's frustrating because there seems to be no way to test any theories. — Relativist
Do you think idealism solves it? Did you see the conversation with Kastrup and Koch yet? — RogueAI
I'm not challenging the fact that it's verification that the child has some knowledge of someone who's dead, and the knowledge was not obtained from contemporary sources, but rather due to something paranormal. Although it's consistent with reincarnation, it could be some other mechanism - and I was lamenting that there's no way to test what is actually going on- to know if it is reincarnation, or some form of ESP.But if a child's alleged memories of a previous life can be validated against documentary records and witness testimony, that amounts to some form of verification. — Wayfarer
No, not that. The problem of personal identity across time. — RogueAI
I was lamenting that there's no way to test what is actually going on- to know if it is reincarnation, or some form of ESP. — Relativist
Citta-saṃtāna (Sanskrit), literally "the stream of mind",[3] is the stream of succeeding moments of mind or awareness. It provides a continuity of the personality in the absence of a permanently abiding "self" (ātman), which Buddhism denies. The mindstream provides a continuity from one life to another, akin to the flame of a candle which may be passed from one candle to another:[4][5][a] William Waldron writes that "Indian Buddhists see the 'evolution' of mind i[n] terms of the continuity of individual mind-streams from one lifetime to the next, with karma as the basic causal mechanism whereby transformations are transmitted from one life to the next."[6]
According to Waldron, "[T]he mind stream (santāna) increases gradually by the mental afflictions (kleśa) and by actions (karma), and goes again to the next world. In this way the circle of existence is without beginning."[7] — Wikipedia
Or it could be considered a discontinuity: you are being destroyed and a new entity, an exact physical copy, is being produced. I tend to think there's no right answer; all answers are paradigm dependent. — Relativist
What are these consistent reports? — Sam26
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