The Afterlife

[Vaderecta]

Phineas Gage - Wikipedia

Consider Phineas... I could just tell you about me in high school and me now and realize the difference but this is a more sudden drastic change. Your brain produces you. Alter your brain as this guy accidentally did with a railroad spike and you will change.

Does your brain change upon death?

 

[Rational Agnostic]

Neither am I. I see philosophy as having no practical use. I think that you are confusing certainty with "absolute certainty." We are actually in agreement, especially concerning all falsifiable claims. The difference is, that my level of certainty(something being reliably true), is based directly on the convergence of evidence, not absolute or complete evidence. Yours's is simply the acknowledgement of doubt, which is always a given, because the probability for error will always exist. Your method allows for even unfalsifiable claims to have merit. When you are dead, there is no doubt if you'll be rejoining the living again. There is no uncertainty or margin for error, if you will only be in a permanent state of nonexistence. Can we be certain that no one can live forever? Or, are we just 99.99999% certain?

I think we're on the same page now. I agree it's highly improbable an afterlife exists. I think we were simply disagreeing over the definition of "certainty."