I see, thanks. So you are looking at the subjective flow of consciousness and the "blanks" during physical time are of no consequence. So if my "awakening" somewhere in my early childhood is the continuation of a prior life ...?
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Continuation of subjective time, because we cannot continue anybody's life. Only to be precise.
Mankind has always had a pre-ontological concept of etertnity. Psychological or evolution-based explanations do not make it insignificant. I think Heidegger was right: we have forgotten that we exist.
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What is the "I" that is another person. Why can't the other person simply be another rather than an extension of someone else's "I"?
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If there is no link between my being and another's being, there is nothing after my death. Not for me. Which says the same as nothing in general. Because in that case there is no me, which is an essential part of the fundamental subject-object relation. And this is paradoxical, as I have "proved" elsewhere. But if someone sees that there is no paradox or that the paradox can be solved in another way, that is fine, and I would be happy to hear other opinions about what death really is. I mean opinions that are not as superficial as they mostly are.
It is the present, the "here and now" that is in question and that is on the border of being and non-being. Without the present there is nothing, and this concerns being in general, not "only" my personal being.
The link that connects my being to being in general in the mode of others' being is subjective time as such, abstracted from its content: that after this "now" ther will be a next "now", whatever that "now" may be like. This is my version of the concept of eternity that we have always had in our minds in various forms, sometimes vaguely, sometimes more clearly.
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How would you reconcile these ostensibly contradictory statements?Tamminen wrote: ↑March 25th, 2018, 3:46 amIf there is no link between my being and another's being, there is nothing after my death. Not for me. Which says the same as nothing in general. Because in that case there is no me, which is an essential part of the fundamental subject-object relation. And this is paradoxical, as I have "proved" elsewhere. But if someone sees that there is no paradox or that the paradox can be solved in another way, that is fine, and I would be happy to hear other opinions about what death really is. I mean opinions that are not as superficial as they mostly are.
It is the present, the "here and now" that is in question and that is on the border of being and non-being. Without the present there is nothing, and this concerns being in general, not "only" my personal being.
The link that connects my being to being in general in the mode of others' being is subjective time as such, abstracted from its content: that after this "now" there will be a next "now", whatever that "now" may be like. This is my version of the concept of eternity that we have always had in our minds in various forms, sometimes vaguely, sometimes more clearly.
... there is nothing after my death. Not for me, and
... after this "now" there will be a next "now", whatever that "now" may be like.
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You misquoted the first line. It says:
If there is no link between my being and another's being, there is nothing after my death. Not for me.
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It is not misquoted, just abridged, and the comments remain ostensibly contradictory.
So my question still stands. If there is nothing after death how can there be more "nows"?
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andThere is nothing after my death.
But there is no contradiction between these sentences:After this "now" there will be a next "now", whatever that "now" may be like.
andIf there is no link between my being and another's being, there is nothing after my death.
And therefore, to your questionAfter this "now" there will be a next "now", whatever that "now" may be like.
the answer is, obviously: There cannot.If there is nothing after death how can there be more "nows"?
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Sorry Tamminem, I misconstrued your comments earlier.
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