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Topics to cover: What is itoimmortality? How does it get its name? How is it different from other theories of immortality? Why do we need to name it? Why is it important to man, mankind and their future? What is the relation between the awarepath and the awarepaducer?

ITOIMMORTALITY

People have itoimmortality. Itoimmortality explains the relation between the awarepath and the awarepaducer. Which might be considered the same sort of relation as between the body and soul or mind and body. People do not have soul immortality nor do they have mind immortality. People do not have mind immortality because their minds are always changing. The brain with out change has no mind. People do not have soul immortality because there is no soul. People know that they do not have body immortality. We know that the human body can be an awarepaducer. Which means it can produce an awarepath. The awarepath is an emergent property of the functioning of the awarepaducer. The awarepath is immortal because it could be recreated again.

Itoimmortality is a complex theory of immortality that is based on science and mathematical epistemology.

Itocimmortality or Itoimmortality is a form of immortality that is based on the identity theory of consciousness. The prefix itoc comes from the first letter of each of the words in the "Identity Theory Of Consciousness".

Itoimortality is not a guaranteed form of immortality. It can be pre, post, and paralleled, multiple, on demand, partial, conceptual, exact, complex, increasing, decreasing, continuous, discontinuous, simi, etc. It is however a much more specific form of immortality than a soul immortality.

Discontinuous immortality is where there is not a continuous awarepath that corresponds to a person. Complex immortality is where for different people the type of immortality can be different. For instance, for a particular awarepath there man

Since a person has a life and thus will have a corresponding exact awarepath for that life, we call the recreation of the exact awarepath exact immortality. What happens when a person does not produce an exact awarepath. By definition what that person produces as an awarepath is his one and only awarepath. This awarepath can be made of all sort of other awarepath's sections but when we put these sections or part together we have another awarepath.

When an awarepath is made from other awarepaths that are of a type then it is called a compound awarepath.

There exists the reproduction of the exact awarepath. There is the reproduction of the awarepath at some point along that awarepath. but it develops into another awarepath overtime. This can happen at any point and work into any awarepath. If this is starting at a point on the awarepath then we can see that the point has a previous life that was not on the original awarepath and this is the crossing of paths form of immortality. In this form of immortality the two or more different awarepaths share a point or a section of an awarepath. If two or more awarepath keep intertwining around a particular awarepath then we have intertwined immortality. Partial intertwined awarepaths are where parts of the awarepath are intertwined.

An awarepath does not have to be generated by way of a person. It can be generated by way of an awarepaducer.

There exist other people they generally have an awarepath that is like ones own.

Immortality of the awarepath and immortality of the person.

People are mortal but their conscious uniqueness is not necessarily mortal

There are many different types of immortality that can apply to people.

There are an infinite amount of awarepaths each one different from each other in some way. This makes the itoimmortality different than a theory of soul because there are but a finite amount of souls that can exist. Why? A soul is a term that is not well defined in terms of awarepaths. Consciousness is not the defining quality in the soul. What are the defining characteristics of the soul? uniqueness? As a body can be consciousness or not during its existence so can a soul. We can even say that a soul could have had this consciousness or that consciousness and still have been or considered the same soul. This does apply to the body for both the identity theory and the soul theory. How can the same body have different awarepaths. This applies to the body but not necessary to different physipaths. the reason for this is that the body is not as an exacting term as the physipath and as such one body can correspond to many physipath and as such to many different awarepaths. Different physipaths might have different emergent properties so that different physipath can produce the same awarepath and the same physipath may have more than one awarepath

It might be that the reason that the soul is not considered consciousness is that consciousness changes so much over time that it does not have the permanent qualities that a soul is supposed to have. This deals with the soul path. The soul path is the distilled part of the consciousness that gives the soul a unity that all of consciousness does not. We can develop a concept of the soul within the awarepath but we can not see what the unique qualities of this soul is except that it is alive and non material and as such few complex characteristics. Where the concept of the awarepath and physipaths are complex the concepts of the body and the soul or even mind is simple. What is a simple and complex concept? Its conceived elaboration is simple it real elaboration is simple because it conceived elaboration is simple. We can easily define a soul and distinguish between them in terms of theocepts.

Key principles of itoimmortality.

1. There are many types of immortality.

2. Soul immortality is defined as a certain type of awarepath recreation from an end point of a human physipath.

3. Ideally any awarepath can be reproduced any number of times.

4. Generally at any point on any awarepath another awarepath can diverge.

5. Superpaths can contain simipaths.

6. Superpaths can contain superpaths.

7. Superpaths can contain human awarepaths.

8. Human awarepaths can contain memory paths, memory potential

9. Where a human physipath has an end point in relation to producing an awarepath, a human awarepath does not have a necessary endpoint. We can imagine infinitely long human awarepaths.

10 An awarepath is not necessarily permently gone when the physipath is gone.

What is immortality for me or you? Each person can have a different concept of immortality. A very broad definition is: a continuation of some parts of your awareness after death. Since there can be many different awarepaths that can exist in the future that have these properties, there are many different types of immortality of awarepaths.

A soul is not well defined. Consciousness can be well defined. Even though consciousness is very complex we can study simple differences between awarepaths. We can apply the

Causes of immortality

What would cause the replication or partial replication of an awarepath? random events, concerted effort by consciousness beings, god effect, purpose in nature.

Types of immortality that the identity theory supports.

The identity theory can support possible immortality not guaranteed immortality. The way to this immortality is through several sources. First, by natural means the universe randomly produces an physipath, mentapath, awarepath and then extends it in certain ways. The second way is by the design of the individuals that are involved. The third way is by the design of awarepaths that are producing other awarepaths but not their own. God creating man can come under this heading. There is the possibility

Next comes kinds of immortality. there are many kinds of immortality. There is the immortality of the awarepath there is the continuation of the awarepath from any point in the awarepath there is the overlapping of awarepaths where within an awarepath lies other awarepaths. Then there is the approximation of the awarepath in one or many areas. In the continuation of the awarepath there is different types of awarepaths that continue the awarepath. These awarepaths can be cyclic where parts of the last awarepath are repeated. Increasing in one or more areas like intelligence or the senses. They can experience many different worlds like heaven or all sorts of experiences that we can possible imagine. all this is possible but not guaranteed. We can make a difference toward our own immortality and we can work toward understanding the world we may be able to approximate our awarepath in the future if we work toward that goal but we may not need to do that because we are in fact recreating or producing awarepath in other people we just do not know how close these are to our own awarepaths. They do not have our memories but maybe they are us but from a different perspective so that it is immortality but not exact immortality. But this is not important because religions believe we have a soul but this soul does not have memories of the past any way so what is the difference. It thus stands as then a fact that recreations of past people is a possibility and as such might happen if important or by accident. since we do not know the size of all that there is we can not say that we are not in fact in many universes fulfilling the possibilities of and continuation of ourselves. I feel that us reliving the same awarepath over and over is not as important as having an awarepath that ties together the understanding of the universe and of our selves and all the possible awarepaths that are possible.

There are other types of immortality that the identity theory can support. They include awarepaducers that have other characteristics⁄ than a human body. It would seem that more advanced or increasing awarepaths would need a better and bigger brain structure. It might be possible that we can produce awarepaths with in a different medium like silicon chips. Or even as complex light patterns from light switching devices.

We can look at the types of immortality in many ways. At any point in an awarepath there are many other divergent possibilities. When we look at immortality we have to realize that there are all sort of types of it but only one exact replica. But at any one point the replica can diverge to any other awarepath or awarevenue. The problem or advantage of the soul theory is that it is so simple. It really does not take in to account all the possibilities. and all the variation that consciousness and life can produce.

All these are forms of itoimmortality

Identity of the whole awarepath, mentapath Identity of the physipath Identity of the neuropath identity odf the physapath Identity of a section of the itopath Identity of simipaths The identity of the concept of the awarevenues Divergence of awarevenues continuation of the soul path continuation of the me path

We become what our environment makes us. our awarepath is what the environment make it. It also has its potential to be some awarepaths or awarevenues over another. So when we think that the environment is different than we are we must realize that the environment is part of us.

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CHAPTER 18

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE DEAD

Topics to be covered an in what order:

OTHER THEORIES OF BEING DEAD RELIGIOUS THEORIES MATERIALISTS THEORIES OTHER THEORIES THE IDENTITY THEORY AND WHAT IT IS LIKE BEING DEAD WHAT IT PREDICTS ABOUT BEING DEAD WHAT THIS THEORY SAYS ABOUT OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES A Clear definition of death. What science knows about death. What are a summary to the possible theories of being dead: What does the identity theory predict about death? Death of the body Death of the awarepath Death of the physipath Deawarepath Deaphysipath Deamentapath

The definition of death according to the identity theory is the that a certain body stops or is no longer producing a awarepath. The body will continue to produce a physipath and for a while at least a mentapath.

A person will never know that he is dead because to be dead means that all conscious producing body functions have stopped including the brains. There is an exception to this rule that will be explained later. With out the brains functioning the mind is not being produced and consequently there is no mind. There is a period of time when the brain functioning is effected by the dying process. The brains dying process can occur rather quickly or over a long period of time. In fact, neurons are dying all the time in a live person. It is conceivable that if a person lived long enough he would not have any brain cells left. Brain cells that are not used can die off, others that are used more frequently can become stronger pathways. This may be why as we get older certain ways of thinking become ingrained. The neural pathways that produce certain thoughts become very pronounced and become easy to simulate. There then becomes many different ways to stimulate or to start certain ingrained thought processes. We can have an awareness of dying. In dying the brain may go through changes that it does not normally go through in every day life. As a result the brain may produce a mind or awarepath that it would not produce in normal circumstances. What if the brain went through an ordeal that was like dying but at the last minute came out of this dying state and was able to remember the mind that was produced when it was in that state? It would have experienced something that was never experienced before and may make the extrapolation that was what death was like. This state of affairs does not happen to often but there have been books written about the event and how it is interrupted buy both the author and the person actually experiencing this mental event. Many times these mental events are used as proof of life after death, but the identity theory explains them as one of the possible aspects of the brain and what it can produce in the way of the mind.

A person will never know that he is dead and may not even knows that he has died. The religious people will say that there are people that have experienced the coming out of body phenomena. This phenomena is usually experienced in a trance or as a near death experience. This is used as proof that the body has a soul that is apart from the body. The problem with this scenario is that there are more than one possible explanations of it. The materialist would say that the brain for what ever reason happens to produce these experiences for the other parts of the brain. It seems that there are not parts of the brain that produce dreams specifically. But it could be that the entire brain conspires to produce dreams. Some people may still believe that there is a real dreamland that people's soul's or mind goes to when they are asleep. Science has shown that"the body can stay home to have dreams, It does not need to go to a dreamland to have dreams. Science has no proof that there is a dreamland that the mind or soul flies to when it has dreams. That is not to say that this place does not exist, but it does mean that science will try to explain this situation of dreams with out the use of an auxiliary set of problem that would be produced in accepting for an explanation a dream land. The scientist is more apt to accept the fact that there is a type of functioning in the brain that produces dreams rather than accepting the problems associated with a dream land. There is also the possibility of an infinite amount of possible explanations of dreams, that would need to be reviewed, if we were to reject the materialist theory of dreams. Of course there is not just one materialist theory of dreams and probably won't be until we know every thing there is to know about dreams and the brain. Why have we reverted to dreams when we were discussing out of body experiences? The reason is that if the brain can produce dreams then it is possible that it in its functioning can produce out of body and before death experiences that can be understood when we understand the brain and its different ways of functioning.

A. We have no awareness of being dead. We can have an awareness of dying.

The identity theory is a materialist theory that the brain produces the mind and is directly responsible for it. But the materialist conclusion is that at the end of a persons life there is nothing left of that person but his dead unthinking non mental remains. Any kind of mental life that a person once had is gone -- forever. This view makes the materialist theory unpopular though scientific theory because it offers nothing for those that like life and want it to continue. The identity theory of consciousness does offer a greater understanding than any religion. Most religions suffer from the problem that their theories of after life are simple and not really very explanatory. These theories may be alright for those who do not question the world or for those that do not like to challenge authority but for those people that have a greater curiosity about the world and their place in it will want to know more. People have spent a great deal of time contemplating what happens when one is dead. The theories about death abound in religions. All that reality shows us is that when we die our bodies decompose. Few people would disagree that when we are dead our bodies go through changes that cause them to gradually dissipate whether it is through combustion (as in burning), dismemberment (as being eaten or mummified) or decomposition. What man does not agree upon is whether there is some sort of continuation of a mind after the body is dead. If there is a continuation does this continuation have some sort of awareness or not. Also is this continuation of the body free or bounded. And with in these bounds how externally directed is this body Its the lack of knowledge that bothers people, they simply don't know what to expect. Of course, pain and pleasure are the driving forces behind thinking about the future and trying to control it.

What experiences could we have and what experiences are closed to the mind because of the structure of the brain? It would seem that by the fact that there are differences between brains in structure, that the changes that simple experiences would have on the structure of the brain

Experiences change the structure of the brain in certain ways. There are a number of other ways that the brain can change. These being drugs, surgery, diet, injury, etc. Small changes in the brain usually cause small changes in the mind. Experience that exists through the functioning of a certain brain structure may not be recreated through the changes to the brain that are caused by senses. Certain experiences would not be duplicated by the brain in certain because the brain would not function in that way.

As the brain goes through the different processes of dying, different parts of the brain would function in different ways. As a result many different types of experiences would occur. But when all functioning stopped then all awareness would cease. There would be no awareness of time. No awareness of death. If that same structure of brain were to start to functioning again at some time in the future there would be no sense of time passing. If a change in that brain occurred that corresponded to having memories of blackness or long periods of death like experiences then on the resuming of consciousness the person would have a memory of a death experience. The brain must change in certain ways to have an experience of death. If these changes do not occur then there is no experience of death. Suppose a person died 100 years ago, but by science and luck we were able to make a functioning identical copy of that person,

The answer to the question of what is it like to dead is both simple and complicated according to the identity theory. We both can and can not know what it is like to be dead. We were dead before we were conceived but we have no awareness of what it was like before that time if fact few adults remember very much before they were three years old. Nothingness is a term used by many to explain being but if there is a feeling of nothingness there would also have to be life to have the feeling of nothingness. A better definition would be that there is no awareness of any thing including time and nothingness. That is the typical materialist response to what is it like to be dead but there is more to it than that when we consider all that we have discussed before about mentapaths or mental paths. I said that we would talk about the exception to the rule, now is the time for that. Imagine as an observer your death. You are on a death bed dying unconscious then imagine that there is an exact copy of your just made as you are about to die except for that this copy is not going to die at this time. That copy will have all the feelings emotions sensation that there other one had up to the point of duplication and at that moment you will have started a new life that is watching the old you die. If that new life was made sufficiently close to the death of the original then the original could be said to have experienced the death of himself. It could be argued that this new person would not be the old person and consequently would not have experienced its own death. But it can be argued that if there is a smooth flow of the mentapath involved then the person did experience his own death making the a materialistic 'exception to the rule'. But does that person know that he is dead? He obviously is not dead but a person did die. Should we feel sorry for that dead person or feel elation that person is still alive or at least that the critical mental aspects of that person are still alive? Lets create another example that of taking a person apart so that he is dead, but done in such a way that the person has no awareness of it happening. Now lets wait a long period of time the amount of time is not important but lets say that it is over 100 years. Now lets say that after that period of time we take the same matter that the original person was made of and we reassembled it in exactly the same way so that it begins to function exactly the same way as the original did when it was taken apart. The question is what would that person have experienced over that 100 years? The answer would be that person would not be aware that any amount of time had elapsed. That person would have thought that no time had elapsed yet he would have been dead for over 100 years. Now lets change our scenario. What if we used different matter than the original was made of? The Identity theory would predict that there would be no change and the person would still think that no time had past. Lets change a little further what if we just made the copy without an original? Again that person would say that no time had past. In this case that person never existed before, yet he still thinks that no time had past. Of course, we can not say that person never had a past only that we were never aware of his past. So what is"it like to be dead? You already know as far as a living person will or can know. And in the same sense all we will ever know is life no matter how hard we try to know otherwise. We can not know death because it is an unknowing nonconscious state. The rocks around us are not aware of being dead or alive they simply are not aware. But if the matter in them we arranged in the correct functioning way they could be alive and have consciousness; anyone's consciousness that has ever lived, will ever live, could live, or is living. What if we play a trick on our experimental person. Lets say that when we recreate him we change a few things in his brain. What if we put memories of endless boredom and darkness along with out any other senses. Of course in reality (probably) if anyone experienced that they would go crazy. But he is not. Now ask him what it is like to be dead and he will give you the answer that it is like a floating nothingness that is very terrible. If we changed that person and gave him memories of a heaven then that person would give the answer that death is going to heaven and he might even give specifics of heaven. Of course this heaven would not have to real but that person certainly would believe that it was real unless he could be convinced other wise.

How is it that we can have experiences as if we had a life before? According to the identity theory we can have experiences that are exactly the same as people have had in the past. In the same light we can experience the same things that people in the future will experience. There is also the feeling of de ju vous. It is the strange feeling that you get when you think that something has happened before. People that have the feeling that they have experienced something but it is not remembered happening to them There are many explanations. One is that the brain in dreams can create memories that have never happened. It also can create dreams that are of events before they happen. As time passes these dream memories change until we think they are different than they really are. We also can have memories of dreams that we never remember as dreams. The only way that we sort them out is by realizing that we in fact didn't do what we thought we did on a certain date or time. Psycological studies of memories have shown that memories of experiences are very imprecise. As we think about experiences we have a tendency to interpret them so that we can understand them better. As we do that we add things to the memory of the experience that was not necessarily there in the first place. It must be remembered that all we receive is a array of neural information. From that information we develop pictures of what is happening. We use what we have already learned to understand the situation. Our nervous systems are processors of information. This information does not have to be correct, useful, or valid; and in fact is seldom if ever complete. An example of this is when we hear some one speaking. What we hear is a bunch of sound noises. We try to interpret that noise. Many times we do not really hear what they say but what we think they say. And when we do this many times we are wrong. Many disagreements have happened because people did not say what they meant and did not hear themselves say the wrong thing. And the listeners incorrectly heard what a person said.

Why should there be a specific name for the deawarepaths? Because it is a n important area in dealing with death. It seems to aim us to certain beliefs that may not be valid true or real. The brain can produce experiences that are not real. It can distort reality especially when under duress like when we are about to die or come close to dying. What is the deaphysipath? The deaphysipath is the part of a physipath that is when the physipath is under severe stress like when a person is about to die. The stress can be do to lack of functioning of the body and its effect on the way the brain and nervous system works. When a person is dying part of his body is not functioning correctly to keep the body alive. The body may have a lack of food or oxygen. Other chemicals might be in the body or not removed by the kidneys or liver that is causing damage the heart might not be pumping enough blood or any blood. The lungs might be full of water so that oxygen and carbon dioxide can not be replaced. There may be a lack of blood. These problems may not cause death but stress on the rest of the body including the brain and thus the mind. There are a number of things that can cause death as death approaches other parts of the body stop functioning as well. Deaphysipath are the changes that occur to the body in these situations. We know that when these changes in the functioning of the physipath corresponding changes in the awarepath occur that produces interesting awarepaths.

Glossary of terms deaths

Deaphysipath, it is the path from the beginning of death to the end of death. It is a word made from death and physipath. Usually the body is under duress at this time.

Deamentapath, it is the mentapath produced from the beginning of death to the end of death.

Deawarepath, it is the awarepath produced from the beginning of death to the end of death. It can also mean the awarepath that a physipath produces when under duress or extreme stress.

Types of immortality

Names for types of immortality

Venueimmortality, this is immortality of awarepaths that are very like each other. The awarepath is not exactly like the other or recreated awarepath but close enough so that a internal observer or external observer will think the new aware path is a lot alike.

Pathimmortality

Pointimmortality

Simipathimmortality

Fieldimmortality

Emergentimmortality ,Immortality that emerges from a system that does not expect that particular, or any immortality An example would be where a computer is functioning and with in that functioning an awarepath is produced that was not expected. Another example would be one awarepath is produced deliboirately one or more othere are produced as well from the process

End point immortality, This is where from the end of an awarepath ( the end being like at the death of a person’s awarepath) there is a continuation of an awarepath that is different and unique from the previous awarepath.

Conceptimmortality, this is where there is a particular concept that is continued on within another awarepath.

Superimmortality this is where immortality is carried on by super paths.

Simisuperimmortality this is where there is immortality of

Twinedimmortality, this is where a particular awarepath comes in and out of existence

Section immortality, this is where a section of an awarepath is reproduced

Mepath immortality,

Memoryimmortality, immortality of memories of a particular awarepath.

Rememoryimmortlity, memories that were never experienced or are reexperienced by an awarepath within an awarepath

dejavu immortality When one awarepaducer has some parts of the awarepath of another and is aware of it.

Transformationalimmortality

Transpaducer is a tranformational awarepaducer

Transpaducerimmortality

I will give a subjective example of the different tyoes of immortality and how they work.

The most easily understood form of immortality is end point immortlaty. Each perosn has a end point in their physipath where no consciousness is produced usually because of death but it can also be caused by brain destriction. If there is a exact functioning replica identireplica of that person before the death of the original body. The identireplica will have the same consciousness as the original. So lets say that you died but an identireplica of you was created of your body before you died. The identireplica will believe that it is you it will have all the feelings, memories, that you did at that point in your life. There is mid point immortality this is where some where along your awarepath an identireplica is made. Lets say that an identireplica of you is made of you when you were 18 years old that identireplica will believe that he is you and will have all the memories, feelings, experiences, that you did at that age. He will even have the same crush that you had at that age. Being only an identireplica his awarepath could diverge away from yours. The enviorment that this identireplica exists in will most likely be different so that what he experiences would be what you would have experienced if you were in that situation. Imagine yourself in an entirely different situation all of a sudden on your eighteenth birthday. Any new enviiroment or senpath can be imagined for you at that stage in your life if this person were to have a differenrt enviorment his awarepath would be different. There are numerous possible different awarepaths that can come from that one point on your awarepath. Some of the possible awarepaths will be very close to the original we can construct an awarefield for the awarepath that could exist. There can be a physifield that corresponds to the awarefield.

Weither an awarepath exists or not, if the physipath that corresponds to that awarepath can exist the awarepath has the potential of immortality. Before you existed the world had the potential to produce your physipath and consequently your awarepath. And still does. This does not mean it will produce it again or that the random events of the universe will come together in such a way to do it again to do it.

When most people think about immortlaity they think about end point immortality. Exact immortality is awarepath immortality. This means that hwere every there is a person his life produces an awarepath when this is repeated we have awarepath immortality.

There are many types of simipath immortality. We can have memory immortality experience immortality belief etc. Another awarepath could have the exact same memories as you do so this is memory immortality The memories that you have can pop up in other awarepaths. Since the brain is limited in what it can produce there can be repetition of simiawarepaths within awarepaths.

mepath immortality is where the you in your awarepath is recreated in another awarepath you will not know the differernce but an outsside source could knoiw the difference. If we ask any one what they will say that they are themselves. They have no way to compare to others unique I. The me concept my be very similar between most people

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The concept of a singular soul

Topics to cover The concept of a singular unique soul The concept of itoimmortality The concept of a singular unique soul seems to be common sense conception. The concept of itoimmortality is derived from what we know about consciousness the brain and its logical consequences

The concept of a singular soul is the concept that most people believe in. It seems reasonable because we sense only one self. We sense only one self through time. When someone dies that self or person that we knew is gone. And their body disintegrates over time. There is a analogy here with the sun and the earth it seems that the sun goes around the earth we even say that the sun rises and sets, yet with more knowledge we have found that the sun does not circle the earth but only appears to circle the earth because the earth is rotating. What does it mean to have a unique singular soul? First the soul by definition would be an entity independent of the body. Second the soul would be the consciousness or producer of consciousness and that consciousness is independent of the body that it is connected to. This seems reasonable for we seem to have experiences that are independent of the body, like when we dream or imagine ourselves with other characteristics. We can imagine ourselves having other body attributes than the ones that we have. We can be fat, skinny, tall, short, etc. Any number of characteristics could change and we would so to speak have the same soul or consciousness. So it seems that we are independent of our bodies. A unique soul means that we see all sorts of other people and they are independent of us. They do not know what we experience because we do not know what they are experiencing So we have the common sense belief from experience that we are separate and consequently unique in relation to other people. When we saw a picture of the earth from other space we then could experience what it was like to be a planet circling the sun. We can also have the experience that we are in fact part of itoimmortality. How would this be possible? Superpaths that in fact experience the joining of minds or other experiences that produce the experience or knowledge that we are in fact part of an itoimmortal world. What is an Itoimmortal world universe or reality? An itoimmortal world is one where we do not have a unique singular soul but are one of many possible consciousness that can exist that in fact grade into other consciousness with all sort of possible combination of yourselves or your consciousness. To give an idea of this lets look at what is possible for a person to have experienced without saying he was in fact another person or another soul. First there is all the possible lives a person could have experienced that they in fact did not. There is also all the experiences that could have happened that didn’t. Some of these experience have a lasting effect and some do not. We can see this in the fact that we have forgotten many of the things that have happened to us over time. If they would not have happened and another non memorable experiences would have happened we may have been exactly the same.

The identity theory does not purpose a singular theory of consciousness, even though a singular theory would, from most peoples perspective, be more obvious. What we usually see is a singular body that we call ourselves. We see this singular body progressing through time, with a beginning and an end. We have also named something called consciousness. We do not see this consciousness in the same way as we do the body but we give it the same qualities as the body. That is, we believe that our consciousness is as unique and singular to the world as the body is. For this consciousness we have given it the name of "the soul" like the body we have given it a place that it resides and properties that applies to it. Some theories do not tie the body and the soul together. When the body dies and disintegrates the soul can continue on possibly connecting to another body. Some theories give the soul the property of singularity of existence. The identity theory does not. What is singularity of the existence of the soul? This means that there exists one soul in one place at one time. This one soul travels through time so to speak and experiences things along the way. The soul does not change through time but how it behaves and thinks can and does change. There exists or can be created an infinite amount of theories about the soul and the body and how they can relate. Different awarepaths (people) will believe in different theories in accordance with how they process this information. Since most people are religious they are taught some conception of a religious theory of the soul. The christians, jews, and muslims believe that the soul goes to heaven or hell after the death of the body. The hindus believe that the soul recycles into other forms of life after death. Within each religion there are variations to exactly what they believe. There is no scientific proof that a soul exists. There is scientific proof that souls do not exist. Most scientists that study the mind do not believe that a soul exists as previously defined. The current scientific theory about the mind is that the body produces consciousness through the processing that goes on in the nervous system. When the body dies the consciousness is gone, and usually that is the finality of consciousness for that person. Itoimmortality is based on science. It axioms are that the consciousness is produced by the functioning of the brain and nervous system. It does not use the theory that we need a soul to explain consciousness. It does not believe that the brain is consciousness but that the brain through its functioning produces consciousness. When we say that the brain produces consciousness we do not say that the consciousness produced is connected to that particular brain but to the way the brain functions. We have disconnected the consciousness from a particular brain and connected to a particular functioning of matter. The reason that science tends to support this view is from what we know about the brain and how computers work. There is a theory that says that consciousness is the software of the brain. Software is a set of instructions that get a computer to function in a certain way it is not the functioning itself. Itoimmortality does not say this. What it says is that it is the functioning of this structure that produces consciousness. The software is the aid to the functioning that produces consciousness. Certain software will not produce or help produce consciousness. When we talk about software we are not talking about the software of any particular computer what we are talking is the instructions that are hard wired into a brain from experience or the senpath and the development. Software has the ability to make a computer do one type of task over another. Because the computer could do random processing that has no meaning. In the same way the brain can function randomly and not produce what we consider consciousness This happens when that brain has been injured or had some traumatic experience where it not longer produces a consciousness or a consciousness that we can relate to.

When we deal with consciousness or the soul we need a way to distinguish between them like we can distinguish between elements or different types of molecules. The sciences developed around the identity theory gives us that ability. If the souls or consciousness are totally unique then there is no way to tell what we are dealing with because each one will be totally different. We know from scientific experiments that consciousnesses are not totally unique. People do in fact have some aspects of their consciousness in common. We also know that the consciousness of a person changes over time from conception to death. Children may be closer to each others consciousness than they are to their own consciousness produced by their body in older age. We know that consciousness is change so that from one minute to the next there is change in the consciousness that our bodies produce. The soul theory may suggest that we have a soul and that this soul is not consciousness but the ability to produce consciousness. It would be like a body, in that the soul allows all sorts of consciousnesses to be produced. If we relate this to the identity theory we could say that soul is an awarepaducer that is independent of the physipaducer which is the body. With this view in mind a person will have an awarepaducer that is unique to that person. This awarepaducer has one unique property and that is that it can only produce unique awarepaths. This might not always be so but if then it can produce interchangeable awarepaths then we have the itoimmortality theory with some limiting modifications and with the added complexity that awarepaducers and physipaducers are not one and the same for people. If awarepaducers and physiducers are not one and the same thing as the soul theory would suggest then why is it then that when we change the physipaducer we change the awarepaducer or awarepath produced? There are many possibilities. But if we can effect the awarepath by changing the physipaducer we need not worry about the awarepaducer unless there are rules concerning the awarepaducer that are not found in the physipaducer, and that we can not explain within the functioning of the physipaducer. A theory could be developed where there is not just one level between that physipaducer and the awarepath (as n the soul theory) but any number of stages or levels. This means that if we want to create a theory with the soul as a necessity, we could also imagine a world where there are many more stages or levels of souls. In this theory it takes soul 1 to relate to soul 2 which relates to soul 3 etc. until the body is animated and we have our consciousness produced in relation to that body. The reason that we have two levels (soul and body) in the soul theory of consciousness, is that we can not see why we have a brain but we do not see the consciousness that it produces. So we say that it has to have another spiritual property and this spiritual relates itself to the body and visa versa. In this new theory we can not see how the brain and soul relate so we install more soul levels to communicate between these originals. Each has a different level of reality. When we do this what we have is a more complex theory that we do not necessarily need. This brings to the point that if we can simplify a theory there are good reasons to do so but when a theory has advantages to being more complex we should also utilize it.