Theories

Scientific theory of immortality

The umbrella name for the theory presented in the book. A fully scientific account of why permanent death is incoherent for a conscious being.

Among other things awaretheory is a Scientific theory of immortality. The question is what is a scientific theory of immortality? To have a scientific theory of any non object thing, a good starting point is a good definition. In science if there is an object to study all you have to do is basically point to that object and then study it as best as possible. In studying the object you are defining its properties. Many needless arguments are based on not talking about the same thing or assigning different properties to non physical objects. With the concept of immortality it is easy to have the same problem. For instance, every conscious being will eventually die so immortality is impossible. End of story some would say. But the idea that some conscious beings will not die is not illogical. A this point in the discussion the idea of endlessness or infinity inters the picture. Infinity is not well understood. According to mathematics there are an infinite amount of infinities each infinitely large than the next. For immortality we only need the first infinite or counting infinite --- there is always an addition of what ever quantity or quality that is be discussed. For mathematics this infinite means that no matter how big the number, there is always another number like 1 that can be added to it recursively without end. In the case of immortality there is always the addition of time that a conscious being is existing--- no matter how long that you have existed here will be an extension that makes it longer.

How can there be a scientific theory of immortality when we have so little information about reality. Immortality is scientific and logically impossible if there is a permanent end to time or to all universes. You might be continuously conscious to the end of time but after that you are dead or no longer conscious.

Another important factor is: "Is immortality based on the body, consciousness, or some supernatural concept like a soul or all three?" If it is the body, is the body based on a continuation of the same matter being connected to the same body. If consciousness is the important factor then for immortality to exist what consciousness or consciousnesses have to exist over time? A scientific theory will not include supernatural concepts like souls or spirits unless they can be explained and studied scientifically.

Awaretheory is based on the scientific idea that the proper structure and functioning of matter produces consciousness. Most live human brains produce consciousness. Brains are made of matter in a very complex structure, and functions in very complex patterns of ways. Most other complex systems when they function in the same way produce the same properties. This concept is the basis of science and technology. It seems clear that the same idea applied to the production of consciousness by matter. Awaretheory then predicts that the same structure and functioning of matter will produce the same consciousness. You do not need the same matter to produce the same structure and functioning of matter. This is why we can duplicate almost anything material that we made once. And nature duplicates many material things also, likely randomly.

When we duplicate a computer we try to duplicate it a closely as we can or as closely as we need to so that it will function as desired. If any object that we make is not enough like the original that we are trying to reproduce it frequently fails to function in the desired ways. The same applied to the human body. If a duplicate human is not enough like the original human it either will not produce consciousness or not produce the desired consciousness. As a general rule most slight differences in structure and functioning of the human body over time will produce the same consciousness over time. Greater differences in structure and functioning of the duplicate in respect to the original will change the consciousness that is produced by the duplicate.

It can be argued that there is a continuum of possibilities between the concept of life after death and immortality. For instance, like degrees of immortality. One might postulate that on the one extreme is never dying and being continuously conscious forever. This is not the extreme case of immortality. This is just the normal case of immortality that most people think of when they thing of immortality of themselves or others. According to awaretheory this is more in the middle of possibilities for immortality. Awaretheory has a continuum of possibilities of different types of immortalities. When we consider the history of science we find that the more that we know the more complex things become. Science is always trying to start with a few simple founding principle and then the science just explodes in complexity. Awaretheory is based on a few simple scientific ideas and we end up with not one type of immortality but a continuum of types of immortality. If properly divided the amount of different types of immortality can be, maybe infinite.

Let consider the two extremes of types of immortality for a conscious beings like you. The first is that at the end of time you experience being conscious again. Many might say that this is life after death but not immortality. But it does not have to be life after death at all, the body can be alive to the end of time but not conscious until the end of time. You might ask why throw in the consciousness at the end of time at all? Why not let the body be unconscious forever? Because awaretheory postulates, reasonable, that immortality is based on consciousness being produced by some thing material (or possibly a non material thing but not supernatural) and then tied together by the ixperiencitness concept. Immortality is not just based on the body surviving over time, it is based on a body producing and being connected to being conscious over time. If you do not experience a consciousness that a body produces it is not a case of survival, a case of life after death or a case of immortality for you.

At the other extreme is a type of immortality that apparently only awaretheory has suggested. An infinite amount of different bodies of any type that are producing all of the different versions of you at once including all the enhanced versions, all of the degraded versions, and all the synthesized versions that nature can not produce, continuously, and forever. Because there are an infinite amount of combinations of this type of immortality there are an infinite amount of infinite size types of immoralities beyond this level. It has been proposed that everyone has the same ixperiencitness. Of course, not using the ixperiencitness term yet in their discussions but with the same meaning over all. There are more types of immortality if everyone does not have the same ixperiencitness than if everyone does.

We have not covered the even more complex topic of percentage wise ixperiencitness identity. This means that parts of a consciousness produced by one body can have the same ixperiencitness where are others parts can have a different ixperiencitness. Then there can be an ixperiencitness that is different from the previous two that combines all of the partial consciousnesses into one consciousness with one ixperiencitness. To put this idea into a more understandable example imagine sharing not the whole consciousness with the same ixperiencitness but parts of it. This means, is a strange way, that partial versions of you are produced in other conscious beings that do not have your identical ixperiencitness. The insiprocess and musprocess allows this in one body. And the fitoprocess allows in many fragmentedly connected bodies. But this is in a way proposing independent non connected bodies to have the same partial consciousness with the same ixperiencitness. Maybe this is a form of simi - immortality (simimortality). Is it possible to combine enough partial forms of immortality to create a complete consciousness with the same ixperiencitness? If this is possible then is there then a whole new type of immortality or life after death? Or is it just another type of fidentireplica? It could just be two different ways of looking at a fidentireplica. In the same sense as the difference between a coriginal and a videntireplica, where the coriginal represents the consciousness being produced and the videntireplica represents the structure and functioning of the itobody (human body) producing the consciousness.

See also: Scientific theory of life after death, Immortality awarepaths ,Immortality physapaths

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