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    By analogy, one may experience jogging down the street or... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Death is not itself an experience.

    By analogy, one may experience jogging down the street or the cup in front of one, but neither jogging nor the cup is itself an experience—experiences are in one's mind, while jogging and cups are not.

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    analogy(Contrasted with homology, which concerns correspondence due to common ancestry.)
    A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
    experience(The sense in which experience can help account for knowledge of an order of nature)
    Consciousness of events as a related series
    mind(Spinoza's metaphysics; 'objective reality' is Descartes's terminology for the representational content of an idea)
    The ideas — or objective reality — of bodies; the same thing as a body conceived in a different way

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    Now, regardless of whether a person experiences her death, that death is not itself an experience. (Compare: I may experience jogging down the street, and I may experience the cup that is in front of me, but neither jogging nor the cup is itself an experience. My experiences are, so to speak, in my mind. Cups are not.) Let us add this observation to the argument:

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