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We know what we are, from the inside. In the language of philosophers, our most humble experience is drenched in qualia—the intimate subjective feelings or qualities that no Positron Emission Tomography scan will ever detect.
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A few scientists and philosophers strongly defend an afterlife (and before-life as well). Different views are canvased in Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) by emeritus professor Stephen E. Braude. In much of the non-Western world, it is taken for granted.
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See Broderick and Goertzel , 2015.
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Cited in Waldrop , Complexity .
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Broderick, D. (2018). The Machine in the Ghost. In: Consciousness and Science Fiction. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00599-3_1
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