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I've related my experience with a ghost…

I just realized. Half, or so, of your posts are in the genre of "deepity".
 
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The matter & energy that constitutes my body may continue in a more disorganized state, but the patterns of information that it currently maintains will no longer persist, and so I as an entity will no longer exist in any meaningful way.
 
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The matter & energy that constitutes my body may continue in a more disorganized state, but the patterns of information that it currently maintains will no longer persist, and so I as an entity will no longer exist in any meaningful way.

Be skeptical here. Of these thoughts…
 
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Strawman argument.

"It never will cease to amaze me, John, of those who are so single minded in their application of their views that they cannot differentiate between an argument and a jest". From an email sent by GW to John Adams, 21 April 1775.
 
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