I feel that some of this hinges on the meanings of “dead” and “afterlife”.
Since “dead” means I cannot experience anything, there is absolutely no way I could be convinced that I am dead—the mere idea is self-contradictory and logically impossible. No one can ever convince me I am currently dead.
“Alive, but in an afterlife” is different. This I think I could be convinced of, in principle, but I’m not yet sure how I would go about distinguishing this from the dream hypothesis.
I feel that some of this hinges on the meanings of “dead” and “afterlife”.
Since “dead” means I cannot experience anything, there is absolutely no way I could be convinced that I am dead—the mere idea is self-contradictory and logically impossible. No one can ever convince me I am currently dead.
“Alive, but in an afterlife” is different. This I think I could be convinced of, in principle, but I’m not yet sure how I would go about distinguishing this from the dream hypothesis.