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by imtringued 2419 days ago
I've thought about these things a lot. There are so many logical problems with an afterlife. Heaven/Utopia doesn't make sense because it would have to be based on your current life. (do you arrive old or young in heaven etc) Reincarnation is problematic because you would have to stand in a queue while waiting for your soul to be assigned to a new body. My theory with the least amount of logical flaws is assuming that there is a global soul which is reading the "standard input" from all philosophical zombies simultaneously or it only selects one philosophical zombie.

None of this really matters because only depressed people worry about the "meaning" of life, primarily because they have been denied all other sources of "meaning" and therefore cling to the one thing everyone (including themselves) has: a life. It's only human to grow attached to things and our lives are our most priced possessions after all.

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> My theory with the least amount of logical flaws is assuming that there is a global soul which is reading the "standard input" from all philosophical zombies simultaneously or it only selects one philosophical zombie.

Can you expand on the only selects one philosophical zombie? I don't really understand what you're attempting to express.

I think all people "think" about existence at some point. Maybe sad people think about it more than others.