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Coherence proofs

From Aware Theory

There are several types of coherence that superimmortality produces. There is coherence with science, coherence with experiments, internal coherence, meaning that the principles of superimmortality do not contradict each other, and coherence with the principles of logic and mathematics. There is also the concept of being more coherent than other theories about consciousness and immortality. Soul theories of the self or of immortality are not coherent with science and experimentation because there is no evidence of a soul, no way to experiment with souls to find out their properties, no way to test for internal consistency or with logic or mathematical principles.

Superimmortality is coherent with science because it needs no supernatural objects, definitions, event, or processes. The structure and functioning of the body and or brain that superimmortality is based on is founded on the chemical and physical laws of physics and chemistry. There can be an endless number of experiments that can be carried out dealing with the structure and functioning of brains and bodies, and the behavior that they produced can be compared in many different ways. So far there have been found no contradictory or illogical predictions or principles within the science of superimmortality. The concept of the multiplicity of self however, seems counter intuitive to many.

The body theory of the self can not explain why the self disappears permanently when the body dies. The body theory assumes that there is something unique in the body that can not be duplicated in another body. But what is this unique thing that only exists in one body. They say it is the uniqueness of the body itself. Two bodies are different, but structure and functioning of matter that a body produces is a property of a body and can be duplicated in other bodies. Consciousness is another property that a body produces that can be identical to that produced by another body. This is because it is produced by the structure and functioning of that body not by some unique property of the body. The newer concept of ixperiencitness is also a property of a body that can be duplicated in another body by producing one of a set of physapaths that produce an awarepath that is in the same ixperiencitness grouping of consciousnesses.

See also: Why the self does not permanently disappear at the death of the body