We are bound by these rules, as far as we're aware (we're limited to only what we perceive and are capable of understanding).
The self you say is illusory is not illusory in my opinion. As I said previously, it depends on the parameters by which we measure ourselves. Feelings, ideas, thoughts etc. are real, even if they are subject to causality and can be attributed to neurons and electricity. In other words the 'abstract' details that make up the self are not abstract at all.
I agree that we are part of something eternal (as far as we're aware - we can't know for certain that the universe is continuous), but as I said before with my cake analogy, a part of a whole can still be distinguished from the whole. That single process is one made up of innumerable processes.
Death is a transition of an arrangement of matter into a different arrangement no longer identifiable to us as alive. Life is a label we attribute to certain arrangements of matter that fulfil a specific criteria.
I don't think this is a case of true or false, it's more a case of perspective. Thanks for the discussion, by the way, I've found it interesting.
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We are bound by these rules, as far as we're aware (we're limited to only what we perceive and are capable of understanding).
The self you say is illusory is not illusory in my opinion. As I said previously, it depends on the parameters by which we measure ourselves. Feelings, ideas, thoughts etc. are real, even if they are subject to causality and can be attributed to neurons and electricity. In other words the 'abstract' details that make up the self are not abstract at all.
I agree that we are part of something eternal (as far as we're aware - we can't know for certain that the universe is continuous), but as I said before with my cake analogy, a part of a whole can still be distinguished from the whole. That single process is one made up of innumerable processes.
Death is a transition of an arrangement of matter into a different arrangement no longer identifiable to us as alive. Life is a label we attribute to certain arrangements of matter that fulfil a specific criteria.
I don't think this is a case of true or false, it's more a case of perspective. Thanks for the discussion, by the way, I've found it interesting.