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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 May 2014 05:33:17AM 0 points [-]

"We have a number of situations in which we can hear music in this world I.e. Hitting play on your laptop. However this is just the data we have; there are many situations we don't know about. Can we really say that when a song stops, it doesn't continue somewhere else? Personally I see no reason to believe this. At best we're talking fifty-fifty here."

The situation is not analogous since whether the song stops or continues where it can't be heard no one experiences it. Consciousness, on the other hand, is always experienced by the conscious entity.

Comment author: Benito 15 May 2014 07:09:56AM -1 points [-]

From an external point of view, the situation is analogous. Every time everyone's ever died, the evidence of their consciousness has ceased, and whenever a song has turn off, the evidence of it's being on has ceased. So to say that one has definitely ended, whilst the other one is fifty-fifty, seems a mistake.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 May 2014 04:28:58AM -2 points [-]

The difference is that with consciousness there is also an internal point of view, with songs there isn't.

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