Randian Objectivism is devoutly atheist, yet could expanding identity to fit physics generate insight about the afterlife? Why? How?
My answer: yes because Ayn Rand’s logic, that any contradiction means premises are not adjusted enough, could be applied to consciousness as an individual’s identity, thus, revealing POTENTIALLY exactly the afterlife(if one exists). For example, “It is suggested that the concept of identity be widened to accommodate the probabilistic nature of quantum phenomena”(Gibson 2013). Common knowledge in physics is that energy cannot be destroyed. Consciousness is both energy and an individual’s identity. Thus, POTENTIALLY, the widening of the concept of identity could highly enlighten living humans about the afterlife beyond simply faith.
Work Cited
Warren C. Gibson. “Modern Physics versus Objectivism.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2013, pp. 140–59. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.13.2.0140. Accessed 23 Nov. 2023.
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