re: Constraints on the aferlife

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The fact humans have subjective experience isn't evidence of an aferlife.

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It very clearly IS evidence.

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That's an absurd argument.

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evidence =/= argument

It's not the full argument of course, but it is generally accepted as the basic starting point.

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We have subjective experience...therefore there is an aferlife.

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There is a chain of arguments here that I'm leaving out, and in any case, it's not possible to prove them with purely rational analysis, which is fine because rationality is just an abstract category that we create to model the truth, and as I'm sure you realize, all models are inaccurate.

In other words, no matter how you slice it, the full argument will always involve emotion and motivation. There's no way to get around that.