Do you mean Eliezer said that in an author’s comment or something? If so I concede the point, though the text of MoR doesn’t appear to me to support the existence of either souls or afterlife (even ghosts are less sapient than they are in canon).
I’m also doubtful about it from a story-telling standpoint, since if spiritual immortality for humans exists by default, it would make all of Harry’s stated ambitions to achieve transhuman immortality in the material universe, for everyone, a bit pointless and perhaps even restrictive (that’s a whole new world you never get to explore, if you never die). Also, since MoR has a certain didactic function, for Eliezer to establish spiritual immortality in the Rationality!verse would kind of take away from the impact of his anti-death and pro-cryonics sentiments.
As regards your comment about Rowling, I think in canon there’s at least one piece of evidence strongly supporting the existence of an afterlife. In Deathly Hallows, during the “King’s Cross” scene when Harry is AK’d into Limbo by Voldemort, Harry ostensibly meets the departed soul of Dumbledore, who tells him all manner of things (regarding his own past and the Deathly Hallows) that only the true Dumbledore would know. If one is particularly skeptical, one can write this off as total delusion on Harry’s part (thus rendering suspect everything “Dumbledore” tells him), but that would go completely against the spirit of the story.
I see, thanks for the link. Honestly though, va gung abgr Ryvrmre frrzf gb pbzr evtug bhg naq fnl gung va ZbE gurer vf ab nsgreyvsr: “Pu. 39 vf nyfb gur ynetrfg punatr V arrqrq gb znxr gb Ebjyvat’f ynjf bs zntvp, rzcunfvf ba arrqrq—bgurejvfr, lbh creprvir, punenpgre zbgvingvba tbrf bhg gur jvaqbj.” Ol punenpgre zbgvingvbaf V vzntvar ur jnf guvaxvat bs gur fnzr pbapreaf V zragvbarq jura V gnyxrq nobhg gur “fgbel-gryyvat fgnaqcbvag” nobir.
Do you mean Eliezer said that in an author’s comment or something? If so I concede the point, though the text of MoR doesn’t appear to me to support the existence of either souls or afterlife (even ghosts are less sapient than they are in canon).
I’m also doubtful about it from a story-telling standpoint, since if spiritual immortality for humans exists by default, it would make all of Harry’s stated ambitions to achieve transhuman immortality in the material universe, for everyone, a bit pointless and perhaps even restrictive (that’s a whole new world you never get to explore, if you never die). Also, since MoR has a certain didactic function, for Eliezer to establish spiritual immortality in the Rationality!verse would kind of take away from the impact of his anti-death and pro-cryonics sentiments.
As regards your comment about Rowling, I think in canon there’s at least one piece of evidence strongly supporting the existence of an afterlife. In Deathly Hallows, during the “King’s Cross” scene when Harry is AK’d into Limbo by Voldemort, Harry ostensibly meets the departed soul of Dumbledore, who tells him all manner of things (regarding his own past and the Deathly Hallows) that only the true Dumbledore would know. If one is particularly skeptical, one can write this off as total delusion on Harry’s part (thus rendering suspect everything “Dumbledore” tells him), but that would go completely against the spirit of the story.
V oryvrir ur zrnaf rivqrapr gung pna or bognvarq ol aba-qrnq crbcyr. Urer’f gur yvax.
I see, thanks for the link. Honestly though, va gung abgr Ryvrmre frrzf gb pbzr evtug bhg naq fnl gung va ZbE gurer vf ab nsgreyvsr: “Pu. 39 vf nyfb gur ynetrfg punatr V arrqrq gb znxr gb Ebjyvat’f ynjf bs zntvp, rzcunfvf ba arrqrq—bgurejvfr, lbh creprvir, punenpgre zbgvingvba tbrf bhg gur jvaqbj.” Ol punenpgre zbgvingvbaf V vzntvar ur jnf guvaxvat bs gur fnzr pbapreaf V zragvbarq jura V gnyxrq nobhg gur “fgbel-gryyvat fgnaqcbvag” nobir.
V guvax lbh znl or pbeerpg ba obgu cbvagf, npghnyyl. V’yy tb onpx naq rqvg zl cbfgf, V thrff.