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Song analogy for superimmortality

From Aware Theory

"Song analogy for superimmortality" is also called the "IPhone/ song analogy for superimmortality"

The "song 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 "song 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 bodies 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 smartphone or the equivalent that has the ability to produce songs. In this analogy the smartphone is analogous to your body. When the cell smartphone 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 smartphone souls to continue the "smartphone self" after the death of the smartphone. The destruction of the smartphone is the permanent end of this smartphone ability to produce songs just like the death of person is the permanent end of a person's body being able to produce consciousness.

But there is an alternate way of looking at death using the song analogy. You are like the song that the IPhone produces through its structure and functioning. Usually a song is much shorter than a human life but a song can be imagined to be any length.

  1. Identical structure and functioning in two or more smartphones will produce identical sounds including songs.
  2. The structure and functioning of smartphones can become more or less alike. As a result each song that an smartphone produces can become more or less alike.
  3. Many different smartphones can produce the same song by producing the same structure and functioning.
  4. Smartphones that produce a particular song can exist through out space and time.
  5. The same smartphone can produce many different songs.
  6. The structure of each smartphone of the same type are not exactly identical.
  7. If one or more smartphone gets destroyed there can be other smartphone than can produce the same song.
  8. There are many different versions of the same song.
  9. Some smartphones will produce better quality in the song than others.
  10. A smartphone can play part of the song starting at any point in the song.
  11. Different smartphones can play the song at different points in the song at the same time.
  12. Before a song every existed the smartphone could still have produced the song by producing one of many different structures and functioning by a random but music producing process of producing random structures and functioning in the smartphone.
  13. Smartphones can be enhanced in many different ways thus the songs that they produce can be enhanced as well.
  14. There can exist through space and time an endless amount of smartphones producing an endless amount of different versions of a song.
  15. From each smartphone's perspective only one part of the song is produced at a time when one song is produced at a time by the smartphone.
  16. One type of enhancement of a smartphone would be a smartphone that produces more than one song at a time.
  17. Another type of enhancement of a smartphone would be a smartphone that produces the music from many different points in a song at the same time.


Is the song 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 song, behavior, consciousness, or ixperiencitness. These concepts need change over time to be produced.

Can a song produced by a different smartphone be identical? Can the same song produced by the same smartphone at a later date be identical? Can the same song produced by the same smartphone 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 smartphone will produce an identical or very closely identical song. This is falsifiable because another smartphone or even the same smartphone duplicating or repeating identical structure and functioning, the same song could produce a different song, static, or no noise at all.


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,