Atheism And The Meaning Of Life, Atheist Experience
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Having a soul does not give meaning to life. Each life has it own intrinci meaning A conscious person or being by being conscious producing something differnt from
With the multiplicity of self as proposed by superimmortality there are many minor to extremely exceptional accomplishments that different versions of our selves can experience. One of the the things is is amazing are all of the thing we can know. One person in his short life span learns and knows only a relatively few things but the enumerable amount of versions of you including the enhanced versions can know endless amounts of interesting information, knowledge, and wisdom
We are accomplishing with the many different versions of ourselves an awareness of the universe from the possibility of every conscious view point.
The enumerable amount of versions of you including the enhanced versions can accomplish only what a god could imagine.
One life has ample meaning alone, Multiple lives that you can experience and experience again and then for the first time or again with improvements and enhancements has endless meanings --- good meanings, difficult meanings, compounded meanings, amazing meanings any type of meaning that you can imagine. A child life that died in child birth can be recreated where they have any number of wonder full human lives or extended human lives where they live very long healthy happy lives.
We are the creators of our many different selves. There may be no greater meaning to life than that.
Don says at min 6:26 "How can you have a legacy that lasts?" Usually a legacy is memories of you or your life that other people have of you. The more that people know of you the more that they have knowledge of you. Superimmortality predicts that an identically functioning body to your actual body at any point in your life will produce a consciousness that you will experience or experience again. But lets say that this is not true. We know that this cidentireplica of you will still produce the exact same behavior so it will have the memories of you, your self identity, skills, knowledge etc. This is good evidence that it is producing the exact same consciousness that you did at that point in your life. Even though you would not be experiencing that conscious, if superimmortality is not true, It would be creating the best kind of legacy of you. There can be any number of identical versions of you. Each version can diverge and experience reality from your unique perspective but from different environmental conditions. These versions of you will even think that they are you. How can there be a better legacy of you than people that think that they are you and have all the memories of what you have done in your life? The versions of you that duplicate you at a younger age will have better memories of that younger period in your life that you presently had before death. These versions of you can exist any where and at any time in the universe. So billions of years from now these versions of you will know you thinking they are you. This is the best kind of legacy immortality because the building you built or other accomplishments that you achieved would be long gone.
See also: Superatheism and the meaning of life, Superimmortality and the meaning of life, legacy immortality