Reductio ad absurdum arguments for superimmortality

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If the body's behavior does not correspond to the desires of consciousness controlling the body, and the structure and functioning of this body is duplicated in another body will this other body not be able to consciously control his body any better either?

If two or more different bodies made of different matter, in a different place ,have the same or identical structure and functioning over a period of time, they will produce the identical behaviors over this period of time. Will they produce identical consciousnesses over this period of time?

What conditions will effect the outcome and what will not effect the outcome of these experiments? Large enough changes in structure and functioning will produce a difference in behavior


Any changes that do not effect the structure and functioning of the body will not change the behavior of the body. So what changes will not change the structure and functioning of the body? Replacements of: energy, subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, cells, organs, other body parts that do not change the structure and functioning of the body will not change the behavior of that body. Any changes in placement in space or time or physical orientation of the body that does not change the structure and functioning of the body will not change the behavior of the body. If the speed or amount of replacement of matter or energy does not change the structure and functioning of the body it will not change the behavior of the body. If any of these types of changes do change the structure and functioning of the body and through any means used the same structure and functioning is restored for a period of time then identical behavior will be restored as well for this period of time. It does not matter how long or how different the structure and functioning becomes in the intervening times when identical structure and functioning of the body is restored the behavior will be restored as well.

Imagine if this is not the case that identical structure and functioning does not produce identical behavior. Identical structure of two different bodies mean that ever atom is in the exact same relative position to each other so at any point in time two bodies that have identical structure will form the exact shape and look alike from every positions inside or outside. To have identical functioning of each body the change within the body has to be identical so that at any point in time that they have identical structure and will progress through identical structures over every moment of time. If you take of a picture of a ball flying through the air you do not know what direction it is flying unless there are clues that can be counted on to be true. The body has many equivalent progressive changes that can not be seen from the perspective of a structure at one point in time. For instance, concerning the vibration of an atom or molecule, you will not know from a single picture if it's vibration is up down, side way, back and forth or some combination of all three.