What is necessary for you to experience an afterlife
What is necessary for you to experience an afterlife? What is necessary for you to have an afterlife or afterlives? The first question deals with experience the second deals with existence. Can you experience something without existing or can you exist without experiencing something? Your body can exist and not produce a consciousness that you experience as in the case of your body being dead, being in a coma or under the influence of certain drugs. Can you experience something without existing? This depends on if experience is a something that exists, or requires something else to produce or create it.
When asking the question: "What is necessary for you to experience an afterlife?" It is useful to ask and then answer the question: "What is necessary and unnecessary for you to experience your present life?". I have to experience something. Are there any limits to what I can and can not experience before death?
Superimmortality predicts that there are a very large number of consciousnesses that I can possibly experience before death, If I experience any of these actually experienced or potential consciousnesses after death I will be experiencing an afterlife.
What is necessary for a person to experience an afterlife is experiencing again, after death, with the same body, or with variations to the same body, or with another body, being conscious again.