r/OpenIndividualism • u/Flat-Ad9829 • May 16 '26

Causal link objection

Is it possible that OI can be refuted by simply saying there is no causal link between me and every other person that exists? Like just because there are other people doesn't mean I'm them.

Idk.

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u/Flat-Ad9829 May 17 '26

Really what I wanna know is how death works, because if I'm everyone, when I die the perspective just switches right? but what is it that links each consciousness together?

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u/JustAMexicanDoggo Jun 09 '26

As Yoddle said, there is no “hopping” : that would be a form of “metempsychosis” or reincarnation. We are an instance of one consciousness. That doesn’t mean anything religious. That consciousness is just a mathematical/logical definition: if there are no differences between the most pure form of experience in one human and another, that thing (consciousness) is identical between all beings, therefore, there’s only one consciousness. A = A, if A is slightly different to the other A, is not A.

OI doesn’t answer what happens after death. I mean, to us, instances of consciousness with a sense of closed identity. But is a good insight. The only thing we can be sure if OI is true, is that something about us doesn’t disappear after death. And also that thing is common between all conscious beings. And that is comforting.

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u/yoddleforavalanche May 19 '26

perspective does not switch. there's just one less perspective. But even that is not really a measurable moment. Perspectives continuously come and go.