SDA 5

Question 1

What areth three ways of existing after death?

Answer 1

• Physical Continuity
• Metaphysical Continuity
• Psychological Continuity

Question 2

What are the physical Continuity ways of after death?

Answer 2

Physicalism- Everything can be explained through terms of matter. Same as materialism, no life after death due to decomposition

Functionalism- Considers mind in relation to its functions (what it can do).

Cryogenics- Freezing body so went science develops they may be able to b brought back to life. E.g walt Disney

Christianity- Catholucs believ in boily resurrection and others belive in spiritual resurrection where body stays on earth but way we go to heaven or hell.

Hicks replica theory- find out after death, we go to a plane of existence, a replica is made of us by God as he is the only one divine enough to do so but it’s only smilar s humans arefully individuals and cannot have a clone.

Question 3

Wat are the ways metaphysical Continuity areshown after death?

Answer 3

H.h price embodies souls- mind based theory where we all communicate through telepathy, issue in afterlife as its nit actually you but just your soul

Plato- soul is naturally immortality

Swinburne light bulb analogy- soul=light bulb mind= socket they work together, can be disembodied aswell as embodied, when you die you could be resurrected in another way e.g plugged into anither socket.

Reincarnation- Come back in a new bodily form, Hindu

Near death experiences- would goes somewhere else while your out of body.

Question 4

What are ways physcological Continuity is shown ater death?

Answer 4

Parfitts bundle theory- live on through th minds of other e.g through your sayings and the way u act can be reflected onto other people ater you die, you love on through them

Dennets mainframe theory- upload brain onto computers as its a physical process than a physical substance

Dua aspect monism, Process theodicy