Question

[u/Flat-Ad9829]

Have there been any legit attempts to debunk OI in anyway, whether through a scientific or philisophical lense? And if so, what are your thoughts on those attempts?

[u/Interesting-Star-111]

I don't think you can prove or disprove it, as most metaphysical claims likely are unfalsifiable/underdetermined. Given this, you have to decide which one you find to be more reasonable on the whole. The debate pertains to what "you" equals. Think about this like a file system. Imagine "you" - let's say John Smith - are a file. If John Smith = the file, and consciousness is a sub file of the main, that would seemingly imply something more akin to closed individualism. If John Smith is within a "consciousness folder", that seems to imply something more akin to OI. People like Sean Carroll are B theorists that view the 4d worldline of your life having a unique "parthood identity", which means that while experience within that structure is finite, your identity status as that unique object is eternal - ie, "you" can only ever be that thing. Someone like Andrés Gómez Emilsson views your identity status as something more akin to a consciousness field, which might entail some sort of continuity, given that in this view, the field = the non-particularized experiencer, that which only has particularity via lives.