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https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/84512/Defence-7-May-2021.pdf Well, it's not for us, not until Scotty has had a chance to spin ...

Ah, I see you've met him.

Oooo I have a problem with that. Perhaps we are conscious before saying anything... Consciousness isn't used; it is what uses... Edit: Or "We use 'con...

Consciousness? Like any word, we learn to use it by using it; we develop an understanding of its use by making use of it. It's not as if a baby knows ...

There's always room here for someone who wants to argue that all arguments are fallacious. Unfortunately.

See also and So awareness is a word more suited to private issues.

In order to bring out the aspect of mutuality, mentioned in the text. The example from first aid shows that consciousness is something we see in other...

Not all progress is linear. And see Causality, Determination and such stuff.

Somethings lie that.

Just pointing to the progression... that'll do me.

Well, I think they actually are; but given that it is your thread and you are so adamant, i'll let it go for now. I've considerable sympathy for the m...

...he typed on his laptop...

Nice, So all the other problems are the solved ones.

...then the problem lies here: You need to read more. Aristotle, perhaps.

The thing about philosophical problems is, once solved, they are no longer philosophical. Some examples: Physics, psychology, linguistics, mathematics...

Argumentum ad populum. Yep; just wrong. Edit: No, I take that back - you are also vacillating, "self or soul" as if they are the same.

I did, in the only way that I can see that is sensible...

So the question was "What is it that is reincarnated", your answer is which is...and... ...but when one tries to track it down, ...and this is suppose...

Nor I. Best, not only. It's the one that is clearest; the one with which no one will disagree... Or not.

...whichever garden path we are being led up.

Me. Damn, their on to me. Yep, nothing deep.

Nope.

Sure. I just listed three.

It was your answer, so I'm asking you to share the definition you chose - the one that answers the question "what is it that is reincarnated?"

Maybe. But keeping one eye on the practicalities might be useful as the conversation proceeds. How'r the rock and tree getting on?

Oh, I picked it up, thought about it and left it behind. What is the soul?

All three are covered by the first aid test.

Not so much meaningless as wrong.

George is my favourite Beatle, and as a starving student I was not at all reticent in Chanting the Names of the Lord in return for what was always a w...

It's ill-defined, the definitions being inadequate or incoherent... I haven't ruled it out either, because it is so unclear what "it" is.

I did.

The best answer is to be found in a First Aid course.

Besides, this thread has it's little moments... did you notice: ??

...simple...

I do on occasion imbibe a certain herbal tea...

Curious that you might mention this, since it lead in to my answer to When you die, your memories, experiences, desires, intentions - all that stuff -...

Oh, indeed, my time here has been an utter failure. I've not been able to prove reincarnation does not exist; nor have I been able to elicit a clear n...

I don't find that at all satisfactory, and would be disappointed if you did. But perhaps you can see the problem.

How do you know?

Well, go on then - present us with large doeses of idealism. Follow one mistake with another. :wink: That, my friend, is exactly the question. Are you...

What is "You"?

So the soul is one's personal identity? Then all the problems of personal identity are summoned by reincarnation. Persistence, evidence, population, o...

What is reincarnated? The Soul. What is the Soul? That which is separate from the body and functions and endures without it - ie, that which is reinca...

... so the ontology is atoms and fields... not just atoms.

Materialism - the world consists of bits of matter banging into each other. All causal explanation is in terms of billiard balls. Think Descartes and ...

I'm going to quote myself: There's apparently an imperative in being convinced of something. One expects others to be similar convinced.

I can live with atheist; materialism went out with newton; Communism - I'm reading Slavoj Žižek, maybe. No one. Think I made that plain enough.

Mind your language - who you callin' a materialist?

Cheers. It pleases me that you agree. Yes, I agree with what you say about the notion that mind is biological. It's not so much an assumption as a con...

AH. The head-in-the-sand response. What is it that is reincarnated? If it is the soul, then what is the soul? The answers so far amount to the circula...