Property argument for superimmortality
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The property argument for superimmortality is that consciousness and ixperiencitness are not physical objects but produced over time properties of physical objects.
Properties of objects exist that are themselves not the object itself. These properties can be shared among many different object For instance red is a property that many physical objects can have. A red object means that an object is giving off certain groupings of wave lengths of light. What evidence is there that consciousness and ixperiencitness is a property of mater and not the matter itself?
- If the body is frozen in time where no neuronal functioning is occurring the body still exists but there is no consciousness or ixperiencitness is produced.
- If the body's structure and functioning changes enough then the consciousness and ixperiencitness changes as well.
- If the body's structure and functioning changes enough in the right ways then no consciousness or ixperiencitness is produced but the body can still be alive.
- If the body dies the body still exists but no consciousness or ixperiencitness is being produced by this body.
The consequences of consciousness or ixperiencitness being a produced property of a body and not a necessary part of the body is that it can be duplicated in other bodies. Whatever physical processes that produced the specific consciousness and ixperiencitness in one object is reproduced in another object or body the same consciousness and ixperiencitness will be produced in this other object. One proof of this is that identical structure and functioning of a body will produce identical behavior in that body.