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Transcript of Surviving Death: A Guide for Beginners Michael Lacewing [email protected].
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What am I?
What is it for me to continue being me over time?
Am I a kind of thing, e.g. a mind or a body? What is it for a mind or a body to continue to exist?
We know bodies can exist without minds (corpses). Are minds able to exist without bodies?
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Dualism and Monism
Substance: needs no other thing to existDualism: there are two sorts of
substance, mind (or soul) and matterMaterialism: there is just one sort of
thing, matter
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The options
Suppose dualism is true, and my mind can exist without my body. Do I continue to exist just as a mind after death (=death of my body)? Or am I essentially a mind-and-body combination?
Suppose materialism is true, and we don’t have souls. Can we survive death at all? Can my body ‘survive’? Can my mind survive?
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Surviving death: Resurrection
In the graveyard or somewhere else? How does my body get there?
Christ had an intact body; I won’t!
Putting the old body back together
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A Corny Tale
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Materialism and personal identity
Am I…
My brain?
Or is what makes me me different from what makes my brain my brain?
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Teletransportation (or travelling light)
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Same mind, different body
Teletransportation suggests that I can still be me – the same person – without having the same body.
Materialism claims that everything that exists exist in a material form, i.e. is made from matter. It doesn’t have to claim that persons just are their bodies; but persons must have bodies to exist at all.
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Surviving death: Recreation
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Resurrection resurrected
Not all bodies are the same: I Corinthians 15
But what makes it ‘the same’ body?
Will we still have problems with starting from the original body?