Sure, if you want to put it this way. I see it more as making a commitment to analyzing a single afterlife model vs the no-afterlife version “consciousness is a process in a living brain”. Committing to analyzing a single clearly defined model helps against inadvertently moving the goalposts if a contrary evidence is found. An explicit goalpost moving is fine, as long as it is of the form “we have found this model to be invalid, but we can construct an alternative model which does not suffer from the same weakness, so let’s reject the original model and consider this one instead”. I see it done in Physics all the time, by the way. So, please do pick a model. (Also, I wasn’t the one who downvoted your reply. Downvoting a living conversation is one sure way to end it.)
So you’re asking me to pick some hypothesis to privilege.
Sure, if you want to put it this way. I see it more as making a commitment to analyzing a single afterlife model vs the no-afterlife version “consciousness is a process in a living brain”. Committing to analyzing a single clearly defined model helps against inadvertently moving the goalposts if a contrary evidence is found. An explicit goalpost moving is fine, as long as it is of the form “we have found this model to be invalid, but we can construct an alternative model which does not suffer from the same weakness, so let’s reject the original model and consider this one instead”. I see it done in Physics all the time, by the way. So, please do pick a model. (Also, I wasn’t the one who downvoted your reply. Downvoting a living conversation is one sure way to end it.)