Arguments

Cosmic justice argument

A discussion of whether superimmortality, if true, is fair. The question turns out to be harder than it looks, once you stop treating one lifetime as the whole of you.

The Cosmic justice argument is the argument that the Awaretheory ideas restore the concept that there is justice in the universe without a need for a god or gods. It has often been stated that because some people have very unpleasant and, or short lives while other have very good long lives the universe is unfair and even unjust, especially when the many individuals that get the good long lives do not seem to deserve them. The universe appears to be unjust because people that do bad things to others frequently are not punished and even are rewarded for their bad and deceptive behavior. How can there be a just world when bad people that kill and torture other people even young children and babies, live long and happy lives? It is often argued that this is why there must be a god and an after life to make sure that bad people are punished and innocent and good people are rewarded. The ixperiencit theory of consciousness lead to the science of superimmortality which is much more complex than simple immortality or life after death. Superimmortality does not require a god or gods to restore justice to the universe. It appears that every ixperiencitness has good and bad potential consciousnesses or awarepaths. Some of them will become actually existing over time.

It is the reverse of cosmic justice if for a short period of time you have a good life and in the process you act badly to others, and as a result then you go to hell forever. Justice means that you suffer equally to the suffering that you cause others or deserve for other reasons. Or on a more positive note you benefit equally from the positive things that you do for others. Again reversing the situation from above, it is the reverse of cosmic justice if for a short period of time you suffer a bad life, caused by no fault of your own, yet nonetheless you manage to act kindly and sacrifice for others, as a result you go to heaven forever. People can be bad and act good for long periods of time And the reverse, be good and and act bad for periods of time. A good person thus acting bad for a period of time would go to hell and a bad person acting good for a life time would go to heaven.

These are some of the ways that superimmortality restores cosmic justice to the this universe:

;1. Superimmortality gives a chance, at the very least of one or more extra lives existing before and after this current negative unjust one, being more positive, reducing some of the total injustice. ;2. Superimmortality allows and predicts that more than one itobody or person can have the same ixperiencitness but a different consciousness, at the same time. Consequently, conscious versions of each other with the same ixperiencitness can interact with each other making each others live's better or worse. If you know that you can make the lives of other versions of yourself better you might try harder to do so. If you do not, and you make other versions of yourself suffer, it is like punishing yourself. In a way it is like poetic justice. ;3. There is a itophysacontinuum that corresponds to each potential self where any part of the whole itophysaconitnuum produces the same ixperiencitness. There are good, bad, average, and spectacularly awesome awarepaths that will be produced when their corresponding physapaths within this itophysacontinuum are produced. ;4. Many awarepaths that you will experience can contribute to which awarepaths that will be produced, so in many cases you can make greater cosmic justice for yourself and others by making physapaths that produce better or more desirable awarepaths. ;5. There are many potential enhanced itophysapaths that produce enhanced awarepaths that will have the same ixperiencitness as you do. They likely will make efforts to produce more positive awarepaths, repeat positive awarepaths, extend shortened awarepaths, and remove negative parts of awarepaths and replace them with better possible awaresections, all by being able to control which itophysapaths are created and which one are not. ;6. The creation of itophysapaducers allows for an even greater possibility of producing more and different awarepaths. It is likely that future existing Itophysapaducers can produce the awarepaths that human bodies can, plus many many more that can not be produced by reality directly. For example, World War 2 can not be repeated on earth again so the sensepaths that World War 2 created can not be produced again, but a itophysapaducer, if advanced enough, could produce World War 2 like awarepaths by producing the correct itophysapaths stimulated by the various WW2 type sensepaths. Sensepaths from any previous or future time can be created by sensepaducers within physapaducers. Also many different types of realities (magical etc.) can be applied to any point on any physapath making an enumerable amount of different awarepaths that have the same ixperiencitness. If it is your ixperiencitness you will experience them.

Ixperiencitness groupings of awarepaths do not have to be equal in numbers of "good" versus "bad" awarepaths that they contain. It is possible, or we can at least imagine a complete ixperiencitness grouping of awarepaths where there is just one good potential awarepath and the rest are so filled with misery and suffering that conscious beings would never willingly want to experience them. This seems to be a cosmic injustice for a ixperiencitness grouping of awarepaths. There are several types of injustices in this situation. First, the percentage of good to bad potential awarepaths appears to be unfair. There are ways of making up for this type of injustice. First, in which potential awarepaths are produced the best awarepath can be reproduced over and over again and the worst one do not have to be reproduced ever or just by random chance naturally.

It is unlikely that the extreme case of no positive awarepaths can exist in an ixperiencitness grouping. There never has to be any awarepaths produced deliberately, simply for the only purpose of having to have it exist. Because ixperiencitness is a continuum concept even the worst ixperiencitness groupings of awarepaths will grade over to more positive ixperiencitness groupings of awarepaths, thus with the possibility of producing more positive awarepaths. There is also the situation where any possible externapath can be applied to any itobody. So, if an itobody is producing an awarepath that is in a grouping of awarepaths defined as an unjust ixperiencitness grouping of awarepaths it would seem like improving the externapath (sensepath and enviropath) would increase the positiveness of the awarepath produced. It would then take an itobrain that no matter how good the externapath applied to it was, would still produce terrible (unjust) awarepaths for the total ixperiencitness grouping to be undesirable. It would not only have to be to one itobrain that produced that ixperiencitness but it would have to be the case that no matter what externapath was applied to what itobrain (producing a particular ixperiencitness) they would all have to produced the undesired awarepaths.

A particular awarepath's desirability can be defined by the ratio of bad awaresections to good awaresections within it. We can then imagine the case where the bad awaresections are removed, as could be done in an awarepaducer, and the good ones combined or other wise grouped together into other awarepaths that are then the awarepaths produced.

No god is necessary to make decisions producing cosmic justice. Humans can make informed decisions about which awarepaths are better than others when it come to suffering and justice. Awarepaths within an ixperiencitness grouping that has no desirable or useful members (awarepaths) does not have to ever be deliberately produced by conscious beings.

Argument for just ixperiencitness groupings

Justice without punishment

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