(2025-03-03, 01:18 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: I don't think you addressed my main point, which was this:
The Self is the sense of the person who you are, deep down - your identity. The meaning of identity is the distinguishing character or personality of a person. According to Campbell, after death the identity or personality is converted to information that can be accessed by the soul. Therefore, whatever the soul is, it seems to be an alien entity not having the former person's (or any person's) self, character or personality.
Based on the video Campbell says it's memories that are removed (temporarily?) from the person before their next incarnation but the personality developed up to that moment remains.
It seems to me it is akin to how our childhoods shape us but most of us don't recall every event from our youth.
I think the fact Campbell notes that the person's character is preserved and developed across lifetimes suggests that when we die we will retain our current personality. Which seems to align with CORTs?
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