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EXISTANCE AFTER DEATH OF A CONSCIOUS SELF - Coggle Diagram
EXISTANCE AFTER DEATH OF A CONSCIOUS SELF
PLATO ARGUMENT
NATURAL INMORTALITY OF THE SOUL plato = dualist
soul = natually immortal
phaedo - present number of arguents for inmortality
ARGUMENT FROM OPPOSITES
everyhitng comes from an oposite
life and death = opposites
living bodies die
dead become living
ARGUMENT OF RECOLLECTION
knowledge = recollected
geomontry can be reccollected even by undeducated
true knowledge = knowlege of unchanging foems
knowlage of forms = innate knowlege
we have knowlege before birth
soul contious existing after death
ARGUMENTS SUGGEST after death soul goes to world of forms
in world of forms contimplate perfectiosn
reborn intno flesh
reincarnation of sould as a automatic process
PROBLEMS WITH ARGUMENT
imortality of soul rests in theory of forms
world of foems = highly unlikely
very specualted ideas
compaig sleep and wake to life and death = not the same thing
too simplistic
argument = staright forwar
sould = immaterial = cannot be destroyed
so simple = cannot be understood or encountered
complexoty = how we recognise eavh other
H.H.PRICE
DISEMBODIED SOULS
afterlife = mind based. similar to dream state
SIMIALR TO DREAMS
in dreams we perform bodily actions
community of disembodied descarte type sould could perform bodity actions
contruct enviroment didnt have to confoem to laws of physics
envirnment would corrospond to sould deepest desires and strongest memories
PARAPSYCHOLIC STUDOES price suggested disembodied soals communicate telepathically
telepathic communications will allow individuala to project image of themselves to other sould
ISSUES relies on manipulationg images to create sence of perseptions
what is died at birth
what if bling
PROOF price doesnt seek to prove wants to show concept is cpherent
suppirted by parapsychological pheneonmina
support mediums communicationg with after life souls
SWINBURNE
LIGHT BULB ARGUMENT
book - evolution of the soul
consious self can contious to exist after deathof body = needs somthing to replace function of brain it has in presnt life
SUBSTANCE DUALISM
material body non material soul
"if a man survives death he will take his most central desires with him (soul), whihc us the kind of survival for whihc men hope for"
ANAOLOGY OF LIGHT BULB
the soul is like a lightbulb
brain = electrical light socket
damaged socket = light will not shine
soul only has mentak life when plugged into a functioning brain
destoy btain = no functioning soul
after death = move lightbulb
put into differnt socket
omniponet god moved light bulb
ALTERNATIVE
god could connect the soul to its oldbody or to new body
REMEMBER
light bulb anaolgy = functionlism mind operates on a metaphysical system
mental state = soul statesb
dead or alive soul can retain memory and disries = same perosn
possibility not fact
REINCARNATION OF THE SOUL
VIEWIN HINDUISM
held in the east by hindus
hindues believe after life the soul emter anouther body (human god or animal)
nature of bdy = defined by karma
persons situation in life = caused by actions in precious life
only the soul passes from dody to body
final desittaion = divine reality itself
IMPLICATION
bad karms = role of warrior
kill a body = not killing person
person has soul in anouther life
SUPPORT
compatible with physical materialist view
PAST LIFE REGRESSION technique used in hyponotherapy
loacte cause of patients present mental stress from past life
pantient experinces forgotten memory from past life
DIRECT PAST LIFE RECALL most often in young children confuse somthing by remebring a diffrent thing eg current parent with a diffrent set of parents they remeber
research by ian stervendon
20 cases ehere reincswrnation was stringly indicated
overall found 1000 cases