You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

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

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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (99)
Tags: consciousness afterlife

Comments (99)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: DanielLC 14 May 2014 01:16:17AM 1 point [-]

I don't like to say we don't have souls. We do have bearers of identity and consciousness. They're just not immortal, and they're made of atoms. Or more accurately, they're made of the data that the arrangement of atoms represents.

Comment author: DefectiveAlgorithm 16 May 2014 06:27:30AM 0 points [-]

Is this any more than a semantic quibble?

Comment author: DanielLC 16 May 2014 04:48:20PM *  0 points [-]

No, but I think there are times that semantics matter.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit