IPhone video analogy for superimmortality
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"Video analogy for superimmortality" is also called the "IPhone/ video analogy for superimmortality"
The "video analogy for superimmortality" is one of the analogies used by the science of superimmortality for the purpose of explaining and teaching the concepts and principles of superimmortality. The "video analogy for superimmortality" is not a perfect or complete analogy for superimmortality but it is a useful early analogy. Many religious people and others believe in supernatural concepts like souls, spirits, ghosts, heavens, hells, etc. They believe that their body are some how tied to these concepts. Even though the body may die, they believe that something supernatural survives the death of the body that can continue the conscious existence of the body after death. The scientific view point is that none of these supernatural entities exist because no real or scientific evidence for their existence exists. The consequential belief is that you consciously are tied to your body and when your body dies there is nothing about your conscious self that survives death and you are thus never able to experience anything ever again. Death is thus the permanent end of conscious life.
Imagine your iPhone or the equivalent that has the ability to produce videos. In this analogy the iPhone is analogous to your body. When the cell iPhone no longer works this is analogous to the death of the human body. Many religious people that believe in life after death believe in a soul that continues to exist after death of the body that can continue to produce a consciousness some time after death. There are no iPhone souls to continue the "iPhone self" after the death of the iPhone. The destruction of the iPhone is the permanent end of this iPhone ability to produce videos just like the death of person is the permanent end of a person's body being able to produce consciousness and ixperiencitness.
But there is an alternate way of looking at death using the video analogy. You are like the video that the iPhone produces through its structure and functioning. Usually a video is much shorter than a human life but a video can be imagined to be any length.
- Identical structure and functioning in two or more iPhones will produce identical videos.
- Identical structure and functioning in two or more human bodies will produce identical behaviors, identical consciousnesses, and identical ixperiencitnesses, in those bodies.
- The structure and functioning of iPhones can become more or less alike. As a result each video that an iPhone produces can become more or less alike.
- The structure and functioning of Human bodies can become more or less alike. As a result the behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness, that different human bodies produces can become more or less alike.
- Many different iPhones can produce the same video by producing the same structure and functioning.
- Many different Human bodies can produce the same behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness, by producing the same structure and functioning.
- iPhones that produce a particular video can exist through out space and time.
- Human bodies that produce a particular behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness, can exist through out space and time.
- The same IPhone can produce many different videos.
- The same human can produce many different videos.
- The structure of each IPhone of the same type are not exactly identical.
- The structure of each human of the same type are not exactly identical.
- If one or more IPhones gets destroyed there can be other IPhones than can produce the same video.
- If one or more humans gets destroyed there can be other humans than can produce the same video.
- There are many different versions of the same video.
- There are many different versions of the same video.
- Some IPhones will produce better quality in the video than others.
- Some humans will produce better quality in the video than others.
- The IPhone can play part of the video starting at any point in the video.
- The human can play part of the video starting at any point in the video.
- Different IPhones can play the video at different points in the video at the same time.
- Different humans can play the video at different points in the video at the same time.
- Before a video every existed the IPhone could still have produced the video by producing one of many different structures and functioning by a random but video producing process of producing random structures and functioning in the IPhone.
- Before a consciousness and ixperiencitness every existed the human could still have produced the video by producing one of many different structures and functioning by a random but video producing process of producing random structures and functioning in the human.
- iPhones can be enhanced in many different ways thus the videos that they produce can be enhanced as well.
- Human bodies can be enhanced in many different ways thus the that they produce can be enhanced as well.
- There can exist through space and time an endless amount of iPhones producing an endless amount of versions of a video.
- There can exist through space and time an endless amount of human bodies producing an endless amount of versions of a behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness.
- From each IPhone's perspective only one part of the video is produced at a time when one video is produced at a time by the iPhone.
- From each human's perspective only one part of the of their behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness is produced at a time when one is produced at a time by the human body.
- One type of enhancement of a IPhone would be an IPhone that produces more than one video at a time.
- One type of enhancement of a human would be an human that produces more than one behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness at a time.
- Another type of enhancement of a IPhone would be a IPhone that produces the audio and visual from many different points in a video at the same time.
- Another type of enhancement of a human would be a human that produces the behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness, from many different points in a behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness at the same time.
Is the video the object that produces it? Is behavior the object that produces it? Is consciousness the object that produces it? Is ixperiencitness the object that produces it? The object can exist without producing the video, behavior, consciousness, or ixperiencitness. These concepts need change over time to be produced.
Can a video produced by a different iPhone be identical? Can the same video produced by the same iPhone at a later date be identical? Can the same video produced by the same iPhone with different parts be identical? Isn't it a simpler, more technically useful, more scientifically based theory to predict that identical structure and functioning in the iPhone will produce an identical or very closely identical video. This is falsifiable because another iPhone or even the same iPhone duplicating or repeating identical structure and functioning the same video could produce a different video, static, or no noise at all
Imagine the body theory of mortality that says that when you die that is the permanent end of your self ever experiencing anything ever again that is like saying that if a video in produced on a smart phone and the smart phone gets destroyed that video can never exist again. What physical laws would allow this to be the case? What natural analogy exists for such a thing happening. For this to apply to a physical thing it actually requires some magical or supernatural
See also:
TV analogy for superimmortality, VCR analogy, Spectrum analogy, Story analogy for what we are, Book analogy for awaretheory concepts,
iPhone song analogy, iPhone song analogy for superimmortality, iPhone video analogy for superimmortality,