Right, sorry. You say (presumably jokingly) that there’s no “legitimate” evidence for your mortality, but surely the fact that you’re human and humans have been known to die eventually is probabilistic evidence that you are mortal. I was trying to hint at this by indicating that there were hidden assumptions in the word legitimate, but on reflection I might have been misusing/overloading the taboo terminology. Do downvote the grandparent.
Perhaps I should have dispensed with the word “legitimate”. In retrospect it was redundant. If evidence is not legitimate, it is not evidence.
Again, I don’t know if I am human, in the generally accepted sense. I don’t know that I’m going to die. Even if I am a normal human being, however, I can’t accept that what has purportedly happened to any other human being must happen to me. Especially, given the fact that I don’t know what actually happened to the vast majority of people that were ever born. Far more people have “disappeared” out of my life (after having briefly entered it) than have apparently died (to my satisfaction, evidence-wise). So, for me, individually, the evidence would suggest that most people disappear (go on living elsewhere in the world—out of my ken), rather than die.
Where did anyone get the idea that the preponderance of evidence shows, to the satisfaction of any individual, that most human beings die? Isn’t that just hearsay, based on very small evidence samples?
Is it possible that only human beings who maintain close relationships with other human beings die? Could it be that many loners are immortal? Is there any global agency that is matching deaths to births, and investigating all anomalies?
Right, sorry. You say (presumably jokingly) that there’s no “legitimate” evidence for your mortality, but surely the fact that you’re human and humans have been known to die eventually is probabilistic evidence that you are mortal. I was trying to hint at this by indicating that there were hidden assumptions in the word legitimate, but on reflection I might have been misusing/overloading the taboo terminology. Do downvote the grandparent.
Perhaps I should have dispensed with the word “legitimate”. In retrospect it was redundant. If evidence is not legitimate, it is not evidence.
Again, I don’t know if I am human, in the generally accepted sense. I don’t know that I’m going to die. Even if I am a normal human being, however, I can’t accept that what has purportedly happened to any other human being must happen to me. Especially, given the fact that I don’t know what actually happened to the vast majority of people that were ever born. Far more people have “disappeared” out of my life (after having briefly entered it) than have apparently died (to my satisfaction, evidence-wise). So, for me, individually, the evidence would suggest that most people disappear (go on living elsewhere in the world—out of my ken), rather than die.
Where did anyone get the idea that the preponderance of evidence shows, to the satisfaction of any individual, that most human beings die? Isn’t that just hearsay, based on very small evidence samples?
Is it possible that only human beings who maintain close relationships with other human beings die? Could it be that many loners are immortal? Is there any global agency that is matching deaths to births, and investigating all anomalies?