Experience argument for multiplicity
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Experience argument for multiplicity
Why do we believe that we have had a past life? In other words, "Why do we think that we have experienced something in the past?" It is because we believe that we have had actual memories of experiences that actually occurred from the perspective of your current body. We do not have memories of every experience that we have had in the past, but we do have some. The memories of a past life do not occur all at once, in fact, they usually occur one at a time in a succession of memories. The brain constructs the belief that we have had a past life that we experienced even though we only experience a very small part of our past life at a time. If we believe that at a different time a body produced a consciousness that we experienced we believe that it had our ixperiencitness.
In the same way a person could have experiences of having more than one body with both bodies producing experiences that you experience. Some people have past life experiences. They believe that these past life experiences were produced by a different body than their current body. Some religions believe in reincarnation where you experience being alive again in another body after the death of this body and the reincarnation of your soul into another physical body.
The ixperiencit theory of consciousness predicts that if a body could be made with the same structure and functioning of another body at the present time it will produce the same consciousness as another body that has existed for an extended period of time, like from birth.
TV analogy for the experience argument for multiplicity: The experience argument for multiplicity argues for the ideas that multiplicity can be believed and known by experience in the same sort of way that we know we had a past life with our current body.