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RichardKennaway comments on What do rationalists think about the afterlife? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 14 May 2014 10:15:33PM 1 point [-]

Your existence is the result of an earlier being, not an extension of it.

This is a distinction without a difference. Decomposition into parts, temporal or spatial, does not demonstrate nonexistence of the whole.