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    It is not the case that We cannot rationally rule out the possibility of an afterlife for human persons.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The identity of a person is constituted by specific physical brain states, as Parfit and materialist philosophers argue.
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    • 2.The irreversible destruction of these brain states at death eliminates the substrate necessary for personal identity to persist.
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    • 3.Without a persistent subject of identity, there is no coherent 'person' who could inhabit an afterlife.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Rational belief formation requires proportioning credence to evidence, per Clifford's evidentialist principle.
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    • 2.All empirical evidence about consciousness shows it is entirely dependent on and ceases with biological neural function.
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    • 3.The absence of any verified mechanism for post-mortem survival renders afterlife beliefs rationally impermissible, not merely unverified.
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    Reasons Against

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    • We do not know that we are not in a human-friendly universe.
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