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    Challenges→It is difficult to argue that it is known that the annihilation of the body entails the annihilation of the person.

    When the physical substrate that causally sustains a phenomenon is destroyed, the burden of proof lies with those who claim the phenomenon persists.

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    • 1.Causal dependence is empirically verifiable; absence of substrate removes the mechanism for phenomenon generation.
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    • 2.Default assumption should follow parsimony: entities cease when their sufficient conditions are destroyed.
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    • 3.Burden of proof on persistence claims prevents unfalsifiable claims from evading scrutiny.
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    • 1.Multiple realizability shows phenomena can transfer to different substrates, making substrate destruction insufficient.
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    • 2.Information or patterns may persist independently of physical implementation (abstract structures, records, copies).
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    • 3.Burden assignment is pragmatic, not ontological; it shouldn't determine what actually exists after destruction occurs.
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