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    It is not the case that Mind-body dualism does not guarantee survival after death.

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    • 1.A 'simple' soul, which cannot be dissolved into its constituent parts, might still fade away gradually until it has completely disappeared.
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    • 2.The old arguments from the simplicity and alleged indestructibility of souls are out of favor.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Descartes himself acknowledged in the Meditations that God's continuous sustaining power is required to preserve the soul's existence across time.
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    • 2.If the soul's persistence depends on divine conservation rather than intrinsic indestructibility, dualism alone cannot guarantee survival without a separate theological premise.
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    • 3.A philosophical thesis requiring supplementary theological commitments to entail survival is insufficient by itself to establish that survival occurs.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume argued in the Treatise that personal identity consists in a bundle of perceptions with no underlying simple substance, compatible with dualism about mental events.
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    • 2.Even granting immaterial mental substance, the bundle theorist can coherently hold that the causally unified pattern constituting a person dissolves at death.
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    • 3.Dissolution of the person-constituting pattern suffices for non-survival regardless of whether the underlying substrate is physical or immaterial.
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