Toggle menu
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Animal argument for multiplicity

From Aware Theory

Animal brains are like human brains in the sense that they are constructed with neurons in a complex patterns that function in ways that help them survive. The concept that the structure and functioning of an animal's nervous system produces the consciousness or environmental awareness, if any, that an animal experiences is the same concept as is superimmortality being applied to human consciousness to produce the concept of the multiplicity of the human self. As a result, any consciousness and ixperiencitness that an animal produces with one body can also be produced in another body by duplicating, at least approximately, The same structure and functioning of its nervous system in another body. The less complex a nervous system is the more likely it can be duplicated, thus the more likely that the consciousness and ixperiencitness produced by an animal will be duplicated. Also the idea that ixperiencitness is a continuum concept applies to any animal ixperiencitness as well as it does to human ixperiencitnesses. For example, two animals can have both percentage wise identity of both consciousness and ixperiencitness. Superimmortality predicts that humans can experience before or after they die reunions with dead friends, loved ones, relatives, and revered humans by creating in the same body or in another body the many different possible reunion scenarios that the enumerable amount of different structures and functionings of matter can produce. If your desire or goal is to be reunited with a dead but loved animal, this can be accomplished in the same several ways as a reunion with dead but still loved and remembered humans. The first step is the creation of one of the structures and functionings of a brain that produces experiences of this reunion that you will experience. The original animal does not have to be recreated but you will nonetheless believe that this has occurred. But the original animal can be recreated, if so desired, by duplicating the structure and functioning of the animal. However, the animal has had a long life so at what point in his life do you want to recreate his brain's structure and functioning?

If the concept of multiplicity applies to animals then the lives and death of animals is not as bad as if each animal only consciously exists once. What this means is that a baby animal that dies young by accident, by being food for other animals or insects, etc., suffers but gets many chances to live over and over again complete fulling lives. Many of these lives can be continuations of shortened cruel lives but without the extreme suffering. If an animal knew that he was going to periodically suffer in his many different lives would he still want to consciously exist? Most animals are not aware of future suffering until they are suffering.

A universe that has the property of multiplicity is a much more positive world. Suffering and pain are not part of the permanent ending of conscious life but one of the many experiences of conscious life produced by many different bodies that have closely related structured and functioning nervous systems.