Why would there still be awareness if the body collapses into its non-mental materialist constituents?
It seems "you" wouldn't wake up, and the author acknowledges the fact here:
Reincarnation, OTOH, allows for you to either keep your memory in the between-life state or at the least retain aspects of yourself even if the distinct memories of the self are gone.
If someone wants to exist even as diffuse awareness Materialism is unlikely to offer that choice unless you extend emergence of consciousness from matter to such a wide degree of processes that we'd very close to Panpsychism.
It seems "you" wouldn't wake up, and the author acknowledges the fact here:
Quote:Nevertheless, I believe a materialist can see that consciousness, as a strictly physical phenomenon instantiated by the brain, creates a world subjectively immune to its own disappearance. It is the very finitude of a self-reflective cognitive system that bars it from witnessing its own beginning or ending, and hence prevents there being, for it, any condition other than existing. Its ending is only an event, and its non-existence a current fact, for other perspectives.
Reincarnation, OTOH, allows for you to either keep your memory in the between-life state or at the least retain aspects of yourself even if the distinct memories of the self are gone.
If someone wants to exist even as diffuse awareness Materialism is unlikely to offer that choice unless you extend emergence of consciousness from matter to such a wide degree of processes that we'd very close to Panpsychism.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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