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Same body, same person A.
Numerical sameness is what matters B.
DNA screening, fingerprinting, etc. How can we account for
surviving our deaths? C.
Seems to be logically possible that we can
survive the death of our physical body a.
Many religious traditions: there is an afterlife |
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D.
Do we get to keep the body we had in life? |
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a.
Won’t it still need maintenance? |
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b.
What if I had my eye poked out? |
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c.
Will I need a haircut in heaven? |
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E.
Do we get a spiritual body? |
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a.
How could this be the same body as my physical
one? |
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F.
Do I get a re-creation of my physical body? |
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a.
What age body do I get? |
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b.
Is it a continuation of that body, still
arthritic and flabby? |
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John
Locke: it is logically possible for people to switch bodies |
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What
about the amnesiac, brain-washed and brain-damaged? |
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