Tag
Arguments
9 pages tagged arguments.
2=2 argument
Two identical things can be the same as concepts while different as objects. That gap is why consciousness, which is a pattern, can recur even though a particular brain cannot.
ArgumentsAdjective argument
Consciousness behaves like an adjective, not a noun. It is a property of physical structures, not a separate substance. The argument draws out what follows for personal survival.
ArgumentsArguments for multiplicity
A set of reasons to believe that the same conscious "you" can exist in multiple bodies at once. Each follows from treating consciousness as a property of structure rather than matter.
ArgumentsArguments for superimmortality grouped into types
An organized index of every argument the theory makes for superimmortality, sorted by type (existence, multiplicity, recurrence, structural) and by what each one is meant to prove.
ArgumentsCosmic 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.
ArgumentsCourage and cowardice argument
An argument about the moral weight of taking superimmortality seriously. Refusing to follow the premises to their conclusion is its own kind of intellectual cowardice.
ArgumentsIxperiencitness arguments
The collected arguments for three claims: that ixperiencitness is real, that it is what personal survival consists in, and that it can be produced by more than one body.
ArgumentsOriarguments
Arguments about "originals" specifically: the first body you were born in, the one writing this sentence. These arguments show why the original has no stronger claim to be you than any replica.
ArgumentsTest for originalness argument
If two bodies produce identical consciousness, no test could determine which is the "original". The argument uses that fact to show that originalness is not a real property.