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is there a possibility that mind still exists after death?
We first need to clear the widespread confusion between consciousness and mind.
It is the fact that the word "consciousness" is terminally ambiguous which led some philosophers to come up ...
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is there a possibility that mind still exists after death?
Assuming mind-body connection as holding true (mind and body are connected, regardless if "mind" is an epiphenomenon of matter or a separate thing in itself) and assuming matter-energy to be ...
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is there a possibility that mind still exists after death?
Yes. You can eliminate that possibility.
First of all, what you are aware of as being "you" is the experience of being you. This is clearly separate from what you experience as external to ...
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If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what?
If you want to say that any after-life won't involve any agency (which I think is inflationary, against most authorities), free or otherwise, then maybe it doesn't matters what you call anything and ...
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If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what?
Your question is a very appropriate one. The methodology you use to try to answer it is seriously flawed.
The question falls into the general category of: "how we can know what is in a ...
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If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what?
I think this is a good question, generally neglected by religious practitioners. If you go to heaven, what goes to heaven? If you are reborn, what do you have in common or what continuity is there?
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If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what?
So this is sort of a question about epistemology: how do we know what we know? What justifies one's confidence in a particular position?
In the case of life after death, I suppose you could ask what ...
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