I didn't mean soul as in a religious thing, but a seat of consciousness, for lack of a better term. And you are right, because following his logic, how the hell does your consciousness end up in the new body?? Space magic?

Ignore lavardera, just a dumb troll. You are totally correct.

lol that sounds about right

I agree fully, and fear you may be right about brain transplants producing insanity. That was going to be my choice of trans-humanism. Darn.

Agreed! But try explaining that to some of these 'quality thinkers' on here. I have tried. Like talking to brick walls the lot of them. Suits me fine, let them all go commit their super expensive suicide. More room and resources for the rest of us.

How is reincarnation a fact? In what lab or journal has this been proven conclusively?

Thing is, electrical activity persists in the brain long after the body is well and truly dead. Who knows what a dying brain may dream? Who knows how much time dilates to a dying consciousness. It could well seem like forever. Like falling towards a black hole's event horizon.

Some scientists now claim that because of the quantum foam continuously generating subatomic particles out of nothing, that even with heat death it would only take 100 to the 10th to the 123rd power in number of years before an entire universe would pop back into existence and copies of you and everyone else would…

Well said!

Only if you can transfer that ghost from the original shell to the new one. To do that, you first have to find it, which I'm willing to bet is somewhere deep in the brain.

There you go, you got the right idea.

You are messing up like a lot of folks on here by failing to keep in mind the 'continuity of consciousness'. Your memories are a record of your personality, not your personality itself. This is what we are saying is left behind in the old shell during a copy. Unless you transfer that seat of consciousness, you are…

I'm not sure which side of the case you are arguing here. I think i have read you elsewhere supporting the idea of your self being preserved only in the case of a transfer, and not a copy. In this post though you seem critical of the concept of a human soul. Is that because of its religious origins and the idea that…

The 6th Day does nothing to support your idea.

I'm all on the side of transfer versus copy. But, in the case of a metamorphosis, how much is changed? I'm fine with the body being transformed, but get skittish when it comes to the brain. The old philosopher's example of a ship being restored, plank by plank, comes to mind. If you have replaced every plank of wood…

Indeed! The human eye is 'natural', but we still turn to telescopes to study the stars, because the 'natural' human eye is too weak for this purpose. Same goes for a lot of other things 'natural'.

Dont bother, lavardera is beyond reasoning with. He is all over this article professing his view as if it is gospel. At the end he just pulls out of the argument never once having back up his points with any logic while dismissing your own as ridiculous. I happen to think you are totally correct. I say, let lavardera…

" Is it a soul? No, because souls don't exist. "

Looks like I'm not the only one on here trying to hammer home to the others about the 'continuity of consciousness' issue. Bravo, madame. I fully subscribe to your point of view here. To my mind, until we isolate and manage to transfer the nexus of what is 'US' (soul, ego, consciousness, etc.) then any exercise…

you kill them with a book! i've seen your movies :)