Examples of Intermittent Immortality

Your life is intermittently conscious. There are periods of time in your life that you do not remember anything consciously happening to you. For instance, when you wake up and do not remember anything happening while you were asleep. We however know that part of the time that we are asleep we are consciously dreaming But we often do not remember these dreams. Other cases are when drunk or after using certain drugs. You can also have periods of non consciousness when in a coma of various durations. These are cases of intermittent consciousness with the same body and within the same life time.

Intermittent Immortality is a form of superimmortality. The science of superimmortality predicts that what produces your consciousness, that you experience right now, is the specific structure and functioning that your body is producing right now. The body appears to holds together consciousness because the body usually holds together the structure and functioning of matter that it produces. This means that the structure and functioning that the body produces does not radically change in many cases from one moment to the next during most of your life time. When you die it changes so much that it no longer produces a structure and functioning of matter that can produce consciousness. When you are in a coma the functioning of the brain changes often to the point where you either are not conscious or do not remember being conscious after you wake up.

The science of superimmortality predicts that since the structure and functioning of your brain keeps changing from moment to moment yet you continue to experience the consciousness it produces you are actually not just one structure and functioning point in time but a number of different changing structures and functioning of matter. When what you experience is based on the structure and functioning of the body and not the body itself other bodies with the same structure and functioning can produce the same consciousness and ixperiencitness as your body does when it produces these structures and functioning.

Since different bodies can produce structures and functionings that your body does at different places and times than your current body does, consciousnesses that you experience can be spread out through space and time. Some types of intermittent immortality are extended, repeated, enhanced, degraded, and variational.

What appears to be your one continuous life with what appears to be your one current body can be created again or even now by combining the intermittent sections of many different body's structure and functionings into an intermittent physapaths producing what appears to you to be a continuous awarepath.

Another body's physapath can extend your conscious life after the death of your current body by extending the physapath (structure and functioning) that your body could have produced if it has not died. Even if the original body did not die another body can produce an extension to your current consciousness that can be either identical to what your current body produces or a variation of this consciousness. This extension will be intermittent because there may be a period of time between the existence of the original body and when this conscious extension of you is produced.