JON MIKEL
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Jon Mikel

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Life & Death
03/08/2008

I think that this question can lead to multiple unrelated responses if the following concepts are not agreed first:

  • What is you/i?
  • What is life/death? 

If you define death as the fact of you giving up existing. Nothing else can happen related to you.

Some could say that "you" is your physical body. Everybody has an idea of what happens to it.

Another approach: if you define "you" as "something" that is alive. You can only consider that things can happen to you if you are alive. The answer would be nothing. If you don't agree on that, then the definition of "you" or "being alive" necessarily must be wider.

The only thing I can say is very few:

 "i/you" is something that is unique and that cannot be perceived externally. It is the only property of a human being that cannot be perceived by another human being.

So I have added another characteristic, "i/you" is a property human beings have. But I am not saying that it can uniquely exist as a property of a human being. I am not  saying the contrary either.

Life can be defined in several ways. But I doubt if everything that is considered to be alive has necessarily to have a "you/i" property.

I think that there is no point on answering the question itself. It would be the same case, if I created a question that asked "What are you seeing around yourself?" trying to find a common agreement. It would be impossible because each one would have its own meanings for the concepts in the questions.

 

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