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Originally Posted by photon
Every night when you go to sleep you experience the same thing, so it doesn't seem that big a deal.
I mean each night you could be killed painlessly and replaced with a clone with a copy of your memories and you wouldn't know the difference.
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This is interesting. "You" would be dead, but the living world would not know the difference.
Is is true that all of the cells in our body are constantly replacing themselves? Where are our memories, if the cells come and go?
Deepak talks about quantum souls, but it sounds like a bunch of bunk to me.
http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/...erlife-debate/
Deepak has a new book out on the subject, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof (Harmony, 2006 ISBN 0307345785), and Michael has written extensively about claims of evidence for the afterlife, so the two of them thought it would be stimulating to have a debate on the topic. Michael read Deepak’s book and goes first in the debate, offering his assessment of the “proofs” presented in Deepak’s book, then Deepak responds. Shorter blog-length versions are published on www.HuffingtonPost.com, with the longer versions presented here and on www.intentBlog.com.
Steven Wright thinks he’s figured out a solution: “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
It has been estimated that in the last 50,000 years about 106 billion humans were born. Of the 100 billion people born before the six billion living today, every one of them has died and not one has returned to confirm for us beyond a reasonable doubt that there is life after death.
In reality, the gap between sub-atomic quantum effects and large-scale macro systems is too large to bridge. There is no micro-macro connection. Subatomic particles may be altered when they are observed, but the moon is there even if no one looks at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immorta...auses_of_death