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

-16 Post author: adamzerner 13 May 2014 09:46PM

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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.