- This pseudo-Paper is intended as the mechanism to record time spent on the Note 'Physical Continuity1' during my Thesis research, as from 2011.
- For the actual time recorded, click on "Paper Statistics" above.
Write-up2 (as at 14/07/2019 18:05:46): Physical Continuity
Plug Note3- In addition to considering just what contiguity and causal4 conditions a physical object needs to satisfy in order to persist, I need to consider a couple of related issues:
- Intermittent Objects5: can things go in and out of existence? Does the disassembled bicycle still exist in a dispersed state?
- Mereology6: is the content of any region of spacetime – whether spatially or temporally contiguous or disconnected – or a thing?
- What do decisions here have to say about the possibility of resurrection7 or reincarnation8? Is a physicalist able, even in principle, to allow the possibility of disembodied9 survival, resurrection or reincarnation, given the need for a continuing physical substance to which the individual is identical? Some Christians are physicalists10, and Peter Van Inwagen has (as a wild speculation - see "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Possibility of Resurrection") God miraculously swapping out and preserving our corpses so he can resurrect the same individuals in due course.
- I need to consider (but expect to reject) such suggestions.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read11, include the following:-
- TBA.
- A reading list (where not covered elsewhere) might start with:-
- TBA.
- This is mostly a place-holder12. Currently, just see the categorised reading-list.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 2: - This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (14/07/2019 18:05:46).
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