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Meaning and purpose of life from the body theory of self

From Aware Theory

It is argued that the body theory of self does not give the self meaning and purpose to its existence beyond the current body. Many mortalist believe that one's life can have meaning and purpose even if there is no conscious life after death. Superimmortality does not guarantee conscious life after death but it does give good reasons to think it is likely in many different ways. Religious theories often propose that only gods can give meaning and purpose to human conscious life. Superimmortality gives us the same mortalist's perspective on purpose and meaning for one body and conscious life, but it also gives broader purposes and meanings to the same body and many other bodies that have the same ixperiencitness. Superimmortality gives a much better meaning and purpose to life than either religious theories of the self or the body theory of self. The meaning and purpose of a body can be looked at like the meaning and purpose that superimmortality puts on the meaning and purpose of a physapath. One physapath can have both intrinsic and extrinsic meaning and purpose. The extrinsic meaning and purpose is the meaning and purpose that it has on the external world. The intrinsic meaning is the value the physapath has for its conscious self. This intrinsic meaning comes from the consciousness that the body or physapath produces. If a physapath is produced within an physapaducer, where it is nothing more than a brain like entity and only corresponds with the physapaducer and nothing else, it can feel that it has purpose and meaning but may have very little effect on reality. For example, this physapath my be stimulated by a sensepath in such a way where it thinks it is a good father with children it supports and helps positively raise when in fact it is only a consciousness experiencing this non-effective awarepath. Even if this physapath has little to no extrinsic meaning and purpose it may have a great deal of intrinsic meaning and purpose to itself and to other consciousnesses with the same ixperiencitness or to other ixperiencitnesses with concern for this awarepath. For example, with in the history of mankind there have been many physapaths that have been unfairly short because of decease, wars, injustice, etc., these physapaths can be recreated and expanded in an physapaducer where there is very little extrinsic meaning and purpose produced but much intrinsic purpose and meaning is produced. The shear existence of a consciousness can produce meaning and purpose. Imagine a young child that died because of the holocaust, their physical life was shortened. The body theory of the self predicts that nothing can be done about this injustice because you are your body. The intrinsic and extrinsic meaning and purpose of this person's life would have to be fulfilled within their short lifetime. This child could have giving happiness to their parents, a form of extrinsic meaning and purpose to her life. Intrinsic meaning is given to the child through her own contentment with her own consciousness though life. Superimmortality predicts that another body or even just a brain in a physapaducer can again produce this child's ixperiencitness. Which means that this child will experience conscious existence again, if one of the right structures and functioning of matter is produced. If the structure and functioning that the child's body produced at some point in their life before the holocaust happened was produced in a physapaducer, this child could consciously exist again after death producing intrinsic meaning and purpose for herself, and extrinsic meaning and purpose for any conscious being that cares about her, or by helping to rectify the tragic event in general.