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CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTING AFTER DEATH
PLATO
Argument for the natural immortality of the soul
Plato believed the soul was eternal and belonged in the world of forms
he thought hat everything comes into existence from its opposite: as living beings die, we life must come from death
he claimed that knowledge was not about learning new things, but was about remembering
the soul remembers things it observed in the world of froms
but it is an imperfect memory because of the trauma of again becoming imprisoned in a body
Believed in the transmigration of souls
PRICE
disembodied souls
His views are a modern version of Plato's
Price conceived of the afterlife as mind-based
he used the analogy of a dream as a state in which we perform physical actions
similarly, the environment of the souls disembodied after death would be a reflection of their desires and memories
his thinking on this topic was profoundly influenced by his studies in parapsychology
he suggested that disembodies sinks would communicate and recognise each other through telepathy
the after-life is mind-based, theres no need for a body
SWINBURNE
Is a dualist who believes that mental states are soul states
uses the analogy of the lightbulb to show that the soul is different to the brain
whether embodied or disembodied, the soul can survive death eetaining memories and desires and with the same identity
all the soul needs is something to replace the function performed by the brain in its earthly life
this is possible because God id omnipotent
like hick, Swinburne is pointing to logical possibility, rather than claiming fact
Plato's theory of opposites doesn't work
Price's theory is dependent on the alidity of parapsychology, which is challenged by many