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> As far as I can tell, there isn't anyone on the face of the planet trying to build anything like C in order to replace it.

Yeah because it would be a bad idea.

Woo is merely the output of 100+ fireside retellings of a theory by someone who tried to construct a metaphysical theory without the woo.

Sort of a if-everything-can-happen-it-will-happen scenario. But not what I was talking about.

Sure. But concurrent consciousness is too advanced for me to think about. All I know is serial consciousness.

There are all kinds of possibilities, but that barrier of Death is a clear cut-off from my perspective. What’s beyond that? I for sure could imagine annihilation, too. After all I can be knocked unconscious.

This only says that consciousness is ever-mutating. Most would agree on that. But most would disagree on the death question: afterlife, another life, or annihilation.

I didn’t mention the self or omniscience.

I didn’t say that this was good or bad.

I think it’s bad and hope that the Fourth Noble Truth of Buddhism is true.

Yeah. Like really, you can’t see eyes well up at dusk? Or hear sniffling?

He didn’t even interpret the reason for it. Just that a woman may be disgusted.

You covered some reason for it on the woman’s part. While he (OP) seemed to only be talking about the man’s reason (motivation) to not act like that.

Yep, something like that!

The mind-body problem sounds too Cartesian. A dualism that is a bit too outdated.

I personally have a weird intuition considering my cultural background: it makes sense to me that my consciousness would be “born” somewhere else when I die. This in contrast to most people of my cultural background, who either believe in annihilism or an ever-lasting afterlife. I don’t really understand why a little more people don’t at least find it philosophically (what’s the word?) plausible, or something.

I didn’t intend to brag!: it was only a means to brag about my career success.

> Trotsky later claimed that Stalin amassed power as a bureaucratic mediocrity, but it was actually Yakov Sverdlov, assisted by Elena Stasova, who ran the Party machine. Stalin was not a born bureaucrat at all. He was a hard worker utterly dedicated to politics; indeed everything with Stalin was political, but he worked in an eccentric, structureless, unbureaucratic, almost bohemian, style that would not have succeeded in any other government, then or now. Lenin’s trust was won in the bank robberies and intrigues of the early years and, later, on the battlefields of the Civil War: Stalin was hardly in his office before 1920.

Young Stalin