Lemmywinks

What you’re saying isn’t the ‘current best guess’ though, it’s a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).

We don’t know what consciousness is, that’s my point. It’s called ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ for a reason, there is no consensus.

For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.

Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn’t help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of “you” could exist concurrently.

Again, you have no evidence for any of that.

Right, but even if everything did work as intended there is still the possibility that it might not have done, and that possibility helps us understand what is actually happening, which is that you are killed and a copy of you is created somewhere else. There is absolutely no reason to believe that your experience would magically transfer over to that copy.

You have absolutely no reason to believe that.

What happens if there’s a malfunction in the machine and the copy is made at the other end without the original version being destroyed? Do you think you would experience both perspectives simultaneously?

Race isn’t a real thing, scientifically speaking, it is a social construct (like ‘justice’, or the ‘Easter Bunny’). ‘Racism’ is actually a shorthand for ethnocentrism.

Who tf said anything about scientology?

The image that you posted, obviously.

It appears to claim that scientology was influenced by Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, which is a pretty ridiculous claim.

Commonly used by who? It can’t be that common, because it seems like most people have never heard of it.

they also believe god meant for the existence of poor people. blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (while the rich and famous go to heaven)

Which is extra funny when you remember that Jesus explicitly stated that rich people don’t get into heaven.

Ancient Irish and Welsh ‘pagans’ worshiped entirely different pantheons from each other. ‘Celtic’ paganism is a pretty meaningless term.

Also, everything we know about the druids was written down by Julius Caesar, and - given that he wrote it as a justification for annihilating them - there is absolutely no reason to believe he was even attempting to tell the truth.

It’s funny how eugenics is widely accepted to be a bad thing when applied to humans, but for some reason “genetic purity” is still lauded for plants and animals.

The real threat to wildcats comes from humanity destroying their habitat (which is why the European wildcat, once endemic to the whole of Britain, is now only found in the north of Scotland). I’d personally imagine that hybridization is preferable to genetic extinction, as far as the wildcats themselves are concerned.

Also, like I said, Scottish wildcats are no longer found in the vast majority of Britain (through no fault of the domestic cat), so unless OP is in a particularly rural area of northern Scotland it’s a completely moot point either way.

Outdoor domestic cats and wildlife: How to overrate and misinterpret field data

It’s worth mentioning that Alan Watts was a chronic alcoholic who drank himself to death in his 50s. Maybe he should have picked that phone back up from time to time.

Shroom’s don’t even need to be dried. In fact, fresh shrooms are more potent - they just don’t store very well and are less pleasant to chew.