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> It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU Buddha would like a word with you

• linker3000 2mo ago
  So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'? /Is that a transporter energizing I hear?
  • neonstatic 2mo ago
    A buddhist would tell you that a person is not an object, but a process, that consists of 5 aggregates, of which only one is the body. So the objection here is to the use of the word 'you'.
    • cobbzilla 2mo ago
      it’s a loose usage. necessary but not sufficient type of thing. if all your DNA instantly disintegrated, the process ends quickly, you are not you in many senses of the word. to preserve the artifact of DNA is to ensure (some of) the process continues uninterrupted; at least a few major failure modes of “the end of you” are mitigated. but gotta love me some Buddhist pedantry y’all can spar with the best
      • neonstatic 2mo ago
        > “the end of you” Then I will entertain you with another Buddhist objection - there is also no "end" since the conditioned "you" exists in the beginningless, endless cycle of samsara, while the unconditioned you (Nibbana) is unborn, unbecome, unmade, unfabricated.
        • cobbzilla 2mo ago
          > but gotta love me some Buddhist pedantry y’all can spar with the best above comment == Q.E.D.