Supernatural nature of mortalism
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To accept the belief system of mortalism one has to accept at one point or another some supernatural controlling factors. Mortilism is defined in this discussion as the belief that a specific ixperiencitness is connected to one specific body and once that body no longer produces any consciousness that ixperiencitness will never be produced again. Stated in another way, once your body is permanently dead, it will never produce a consciousness that you will experience ever again nor will any other consciousness producing body.
If you eliminate one by one the reasons that natural causes will not necessarily permanently destroy an ixperiencitness you are left with an unknown natural cause or causes or you have to postulate a supernatural cause for the permanent elimination of all ixperiencitnesses at the death of the body that produced it in the first place. What is the mortalists cause or causes for the permanent extinction of ixperiencitness at death? Should a reasonable person accept the mortalists assumption without proof? Superimmortalism accepts, along with mortalism, that there comes a time where a consciousness producing body no longer will or can produce a consciousness with a specific ixperiencitness. What it does not accept is that another body can not produce the same ixperiencitness. It not fair to say that you can not prove a negative, the negative being prove that an ixperiencitness that has existed before can not show up or be produced in another body.
One way to understand the supernatural nature of mortalism is with a TV analogy. The TV analogy uses several terms and phrases. The phrases and terms are the TV physapath, showpath, selfpath, and selfconcept. When the concept of mortalism is stated in words in the form of a TV analogy it can be stated like this: the showpath with the same selfpath produced by a particular TV can never be produced by another TV or similar device like a computer. We know that this is not the case because showpaths with the same selfconcept are frequently recreated by other TVs or similar devices at the same or at different times made of different matter. There does not have to be continuity or continuousness of the showpath. To produce or reproduce a particular showsection within a showpath it does not matter what showsections came before or after that showsection. A showpath can be modified in many different ways and extended in the same TV or in another TV. What natural cause would make it so that one TV will only produce one showpath and selfpath or selfconcept and no other? If we say that no TV physapath can be duplicated exactly enough to produce the same showpath what natural laws could possible do this? Just because I can not think of physical laws that would do this, does not mean that there can not be ones. But we should not postulate these laws unless they actually can be coherently imagined and then actually shown to be able to exist. Without natural laws to create these conditions we are left with what might be called a supernatural laws that can be stated with out a complete understanding of the physical processes. There would have to be several controlling factors that would be going on for TV mortilism to exist. TV mortilism is an analogy to ixperiencit mortalism or conscious mortalism. Ixperiencit mortalism is the concept that an ixperiencitness can only be produced once by only one singular body. Conscious mortalism is the concept that an awarepath (or a consciousness over time) can only be produced once by only one unique body.
For TV mortalism to actually exist there would have to be some physical property of nature that never allows close enough approximation of the TV physapath to be created to produce the same showpath and selfconcept. Or or some kind of physical mechanism that keeps track of the which showpaths and selfpaths have already been created and then not allowing any other TV physapath to produce it under any circumstance.