“Afterlife” encompasses a very wide variety of beliefs, especially if you are speaking of 99% of humanity. That’s sort of like saying “trees” is incompatible with “pines”.
No, it’s like not using the word ‘God’ to describe a super-intelligent AI. The two concepts have some things in common, but a physical, man-made computer program just isn’t what people mean when they say “God”. Likewise, their brain getting reconstructed some decades after their death isn’t what people mean when they say “afterlife”.
When people say “afterlife”, what they mean is living after they die. It’s words with fairly general meaning. (By the way, inability to generalize or use general concepts is a big autism stereotype)
“Afterlife” encompasses a very wide variety of beliefs, especially if you are speaking of 99% of humanity. That’s sort of like saying “trees” is incompatible with “pines”.
No, it’s like not using the word ‘God’ to describe a super-intelligent AI. The two concepts have some things in common, but a physical, man-made computer program just isn’t what people mean when they say “God”. Likewise, their brain getting reconstructed some decades after their death isn’t what people mean when they say “afterlife”.
Yet.
X-D
I think God would fit in many places where people on LW say Omega.
When people say “afterlife”, what they mean is living after they die. It’s words with fairly general meaning. (By the way, inability to generalize or use general concepts is a big autism stereotype)
more like saying search trees are the same thing as pine trees