Proof sequence 3 for superimmortality

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An adequate and useful definition of "proof" for the science of superimmortality will be a complex combination and sequence of experimental evidence and other evidence combined with rational arguments that is coherent with science as a whole.

Imagine flowcharting of these supporting evidences, rational arguments and experiments with diverging supporting evidence, experiments, and rational arguments.

This is a proof sequence that a cidentireplica will produce the same ixperiencitness as its original is, has, or will, produce.

Identical structure and functioning of matter will produce identical consciousness and identical ixperiencitness

Different experiments showing that this is experimentally and rationally true
Analogy to TV, computer (the brain is a physical system as is the TV) (to expect the brain to be a none physical system needs proof) popular bias is for the brain to be supernatural with souls etc. so there can be life after death. These experiments are complex but not impossible to create and study.
Analogy to TV, computer, production and repeated production of objects, events, processes, etc., and experiments

Falsifiability for each case of the proposition versus Falsifiability for the proposition as a whole, the propositions can be 1. all cases are x, 2. almost all cases are x, 3. most cases are x, 4. some cases are x, 5. a few cases are x, 6. no cases are x.

What produces ixperiencitness argument

Close enough identity of structure and functioning of matter will produce identical consciousness and identical ixperiencitness

different experiments repeating the experiments over and over with different question
Analogy to TV, computer, production, and experiments
First experiment argument
Reductio ad absurdum arguments for superimmortality

Certain structures and functionings of matter will produce different consciousnesses but still identical ixperiencitnesses

different experiments
Analogy to TV, computer, production, and experiments
First experiment argument
Reductio ad absurdum arguments for superimmortality

Percentage wise different structures and functionings of matter will produce percentage wise identical ixperiencitness

different experiments
Analogy to TV, computer, production, and experiments
First experiment argument
Reductio ad absurdum arguments for superimmortality

Increasingly different enough structure and functioning of matter will produce different ixperiencitnesses

different experiments
Analogy to TV, computer, production, and experiments
First experiment argument
Reductio ad absurdum arguments for superimmortality

Immortality of the body, versus immortality of the consciousness, versus immortality of the structure and functioning of matter.

When the consciousness produced is different from the behavior produced by the body, the awareness of this difference can cause an avalanche of differing diverging consciousnesses

Structure and functioning of a body is understandable
Structure and functioning of the body can be mapped to behavior and to consciousness why not ixperiencitness also
Because they can be mapped the consciousness and ixperiencitness produced by a body can be predicted from the structure and functioning of the body

You are the consciousness produced by the body and not the body itself arguments
Examples when you are dead your body still exists but there is no conscious "you", also in certain comas, sleep, and with the use of anesthesias and certain drugs
You are the consciousness not the body you are the functioning of a material body
By changing the structure and functioning of that body you can produce any possible memory, self identity, personality trait, ability, skill, looks,

The same behavior will be produced with any sequence or previous sequence of consciousnesses produced. experiments, examples

Simplicity versus complexity argument: The prediction that identical structure and functioning produces identical consciousness is simpler than having the prediction that identical structure and functioning of matter can produce different consciousnesses, which one, why, why when the behavior point to the same consciousness and ixperiencitness

How does identical behavior point to having an identical ixperiencitness?

Technologically useful versus technologically useless theory
Predictable versus unpredictable argument
Natural versus supernatural argument

The diversity argument where at any point in your life
free will we process the information that we receive and make a decision on this information but with exactly the same conditions we will make the same choice.
Very small changes in input or structure can make very large out put changes in behavior and consciousness.

Ability to predict the outcome of experiments
Ability to replicate the outcome of experiments
Ability to replicate behaviors and thus consciousnesses by way of manipulating the structure and functioning of the bodies
Ability to predict behaviors and thus consciousnesses produced by a body based on the structure and functioning of matter of the body
Ability to map behaviors and thus consciousnesses produced by a body to the structure and functioning of matter of the body

Ship of Theseus (human body) experiments

The matter that is changed and how fast. there must be a point in speed of replacement or amount of matter where the there is the change in self

Problems with continuity and continuousness of the body

They think that there is something different in the cidentireplica than just a different body. TV analogy for the TV versus the shows that is being produced

Proof sequence 3 for superimmortality
This is a proof sequence that a cidentireplica will produce the same ixperiencitness as its original is, has, or will, produce.

part one that identical structure and functioning will produce not only identical behavior and consciousness but identical ixperiencitness as well --- which means you experiencing that consciousness.

What is the proof that only one body can produce an ixperiencitness?

You are not the body but the structure and functioning of the body, because the structure and functioning of that body produces a consciousness that you experience.
Argument that there is no need to prove that a cidentireplica has such thing as ixperiencitness.
Experiments with the same body where, when you change the structure and functioning to that of some one else then this modified body has that behavior and consciousness not the original one
No longer your self identity memories feelings

Close structure and functioning to other peoples s and f produces their behavior and consciousness not yours.

You need the ixperiencitness concept to distinguish between identical consciousnesses. Superimmortality does not need the ixperiencitness concept. If you are consciousness then

Its not the body but the structure and functioning of the body

Split body experiments where do you go under these experiments how do we know

Singularity bias argument we have a bias for singularity or that there can only be one of us at a time. Why what is the proof?
Uniqueness bias argument we have a bias for thinking we are unique.
Your body can exist and you do not exist if the structure and functioning is not right

There is no evidence of a soul or other supernatural part of ourselves that makes us singular and unique

There is no evidence of a physical thing that maintains the self through changes in time space matter history etc. Is there a supernatural thing that maintains the self through time?

Assimilation of matter arguments speed Replacement of matter experiments: How fast can matter be replaced before the body produces a different ixperiencitness? Replacement of matter experiments: How much matter be replaced before the body produces a different ixperiencitness? Where along a continuum of experiments do you disappear and some one else's ixperiencitness appears in your body. There will be a continuum of change but which factors actually produce this continuum of ixperiencitness change and which do not?

Experiments with changes to the same body that we believe will maintain the self or same ixperiencitness

Ixperiencitness is not an all or nothing concept experiments showing that the ixperiencitness concept can be degraded and enhanced. ixperiencitness is degraded when going under anesthesia and enhanced when coming out along with other drugs and alcohol going in and out of sleep and comas

What experiments maintain the self through changes in the body and change in consciousness and structure and functioning

If the creation of you is an experiment what conditions are needed to be repeated in an experiment for the creation of you again and what proof of this is there?

Where is the predictability explainability usefulness in all of these cases? mapping of behavior to structure and functioning to consciousness and ixperiencitness.

The ability to say this body will produce your ixperiencitness under these circumstances and these circumstances will not and then explain why.

How can you even know if a body produces you are not when there is no way to tell the difference between two identically bodies. And you can never know for sure what the history of a body has been in terms of experiences, consciousnesses, that a body that gone through before it has become identical in structure and functioning to a previous state.

If one says that two bodies that produce identical structure and functioning produce identical behavior and consciousness what is the proof that they will not be producing identical ixperiencitness.

Either ixperiencitness exists and is different from consciousness or not. for ixperiencitness to be different from consciousness there has to be the case where there are identical consciousnesses but different ixperiencitness. other wise they are identical where we no longer have to consider ixperiencitness because then when ever there is identical consciousness you will also have identical ixperiencitness. The ixperiencitness can still have use in dividing up consciousness into ixperiencitness groupings.

The percentage wise behavior, consciousness, ixperiencitness and structure and functioning concepts are useful there can be varying degrees of differences between two bodies structure and functioning. These differences in structure and functioning will produce differences in the behavior consciousness and ixperiencitness.

What is the proof that the ixperiencitness concept actually exists? Either you experience the consciousness that is being produced by a body or not. If you do then it has your ixperiencitness if not then it does not have your ixperiencitness. A body can also produce an ixperiencitness that is partially identical to the one you are experiencing now.

Open Yale courses | Death Phil 176

http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176/lecture-13 no divergence, no multiplicity of self, no branching rule Lecture 13 - Personal Identity, Part IV: What Matters?

No branching rule argument for multiplicity of self

What matters for the continuation of self