Determinacy of prediction argument for superimmortality
Determinacy of prediction argument for superimmortality
predictability and technological usefulness
Superimmortality has the ability to predict that a particular physasection made of any collection of matter in any space over a period of time will produce a particular awaresection with a particular ixperiencitness or ixpesection.
The body theory of the self is an indeterminate way of determining the self over time and space. What does it mean to have the same body over time? Many changes can occur to the same physical object over time. To be the same person what does this mean? The same body, the same psychology, the same ixperiencitness. What are all of the changes that can occur to the body and the psychology produced by a body and still have the same ixperiencitness produced?
Indeterminacy of prediction for mortalism: Under what conditions will a specific body produce a specific ixperiencitness? Under what conditions will the same body not be the same person? Does the same person always have the same ixperiencitness? Does the same person always produce the same ixperiencitness? No. examples: when the person is dead, when the person's structure and functioning changes enough to be like that of another person's structure and functioning that produces a different ixperiencitness. Prediction of the mortalist hypothesis: Only the same body will produce the same ixperiencitness. Only one body will or can ever produce the same ixperiencitness.
Indeterminacy of predictions for religious theories of immortality: The indeterminacy of the properties of a souls makes predictions about a person and ixperiencitness nebulous at best.