More Good News About Reincarnation
(The first good news was that persons are reincarnated. The present news is actually just about _my paper_ on reincarnation.)
1. My paper on reincarnation was accepted for publication by Nous! (The real Nous, not the Fake Nous.) So soon, everyone will be able to read about it. ?
2. I will also present the argument in the NYU Philosophy Dept colloquium series, on Friday, in 2 days! (http://as.nyu.edu/philosophy/events.html) ?
Here is an abstract, in case you missed my earlier post on it:
The universe plausibly has an infinite future and an infinite past. Given unlimited time, every qualitative state that has ever occurred will occur again, infinitely many times. There will thus exist in the future persons arbitrarily similar to you, in any desired respects. A person sufficiently similar to you in the right respects will qualify as literally another incarnation of you. Some theories about the nature of persons rule this out; however, these theories also imply, given an infinite past, that your present existence is a probability-zero event. Hence, your present existence is evidence against such theories of persons.
Edit: These are pictures from my trip to Manhattan: