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• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My whole point is that I disagree with the certainty of that claim. It’s not grounded in empirical evidence, because we don’t have any.

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  • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We have proof of brain activity and it ending at death.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. It’s not like you experienced anything before you were born either. Your brain starts sending signals, you experience those signals. After your brain stops your experience stops. Everyone has already observed this phenomenon. Unless technology advances to a point where we can reverse entropy somehow to the point where we can resurrect your dead brain cells, you will not experience anything ever again. And that’s fine, it won’t be scary, you won’t care, because you literally can’t.

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    • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t agree that the cessation of brain activity necessarily means the end of the subjective experience. That doesn’t mean I purport to know what actually happens at that point. I hope it’s some sort of reincarnation but that’s just because there’s more I want to experience in this universe than I possibly could in a single lifetime.

      “You only have one life, live it the best you can” is a nice motivational mantra, but however well I live my life, it’s highly unlikely I will live long enough to experience interstellar travel, for example, or first contact with alien life. I think that really fucking sucks, and I really hope I’ll have a chance on the next go-around. But if it’s something completely different, I’m cool with that, too.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t agree that the cessation of brain activity necessarily means the end of the subjective experience.

        What happens to a car when you turn off the engine and then disassemble the parts? Is the car still running? You believe in infinite possibilities so the chance of it not running is tiny?

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      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But why expect and plan for something that makes no sense? Sure, we can’t prove there’s no continued sentience once the brain dies, but there’s no logic that leads to that. It’s just wishful thinking. And that’s how people have been duped into religious mumbo jumbo for ever.

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      • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But it’s the brain active that causes the experience.

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, so you’re in the ‘teleporters are just cloning machines’ camp.

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  • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you think they’re a 3D printer with a soul transfer function?

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, just aware there are different ways of thinking about it — wasn’t implying any one was wrong or right

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Teleporters are a plot device.

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