Propagation of the ixperiencitness argument
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Ixperiencitness existence argument If there is nothing that ties together conscious experience from one conscious moment to the next then at most a person only exists for a conscious moment. We think that we experienced conscious experiences in the past making us think that we consciously existed in the past. If we consciously existed in the past then we had the same ixperiencitness during these past conscious experiences. That is what the definition of having the same ixperiencitness even though the body has changed in structure and functioning, the matter that the body is made of and the space and time that it existed in have all changed.
Given that there is such a thing as ixperiencitness, the importance for immortality is how it is propagated or continues to be created through changes in matter, body, structure and functioning, space, and time. Mortalists believe that ixperiencitness (the conscious self) is propagated by way of the body even though the matter in the body is constantly being changed, the place and time that the body exist in is changing as well as does the body's structure and functioning. The mortalitsts believe that the conscious self (ixperiencitness produced by the body) permanently dies or ends with the permanent death of the body.
Is the ixperiencitness self propagated through space and time by the body or is it produced by the body.
If it is propagated and is destroyed and not produced it then can not re-exist because it is not reproduced. How can one propagate something that no longer exists it has to be produced again before it can be propagated. Since the self does not exist before the body exists (according to the mortalist) the body has to produce create self at some time. The concept of producing the self does not
continually producing the ixperiencitness rather than propagating the ixperiencitness
as if there is something to propagate through time.
A soul is supposed to be something that propagates through space, time, bodies, and matter. If the soul is the self then the self is propagated through matter, space and time and is supposedly supernaturally created. Since souls do not exist as far as we can scientifically determine, they can not be studied so we do not know if a replica of a soul can duplicate the self that is in or connected to the original soul. It is postulated that souls are unique and each self has it own soul or no soul at all.
A body is something that propagates through space, time, and matter. If the body is the self then the self is propagated through matter, space and time and is naturally created. It is stated that a replica of me is not me no matter how identical it is to that of the original body.
Superimmortality predicts that the structure and functioning of matter produces the self. The right structures and functionings of matter perpetuates the self through changes in the environment, matter, space, and time. The structure and functioning of matter can be increasingly made to be more identical to a desired physapath. It thus seems that identical or close enough identical structure and functioning will duplicate or closely approximate the conscious self at any point in the life of the original.