If you're a blunt extinctivist -- as well as a believer in simple or uncomplicated presentism -- then of course the answer is Michael Shermer's. Although I'd refine that to not even being a presentation of nothingness, silence, etc. Since the latter would still be a form of blank manifestation, as well as systematic recognition that such emptiness "was there".
Though it has zilch to do with preferring it over other fantastic (but unlikely) options, my pick would be the view that Michelle Thaller expresses. I was a little amazed that it was the first one, or even included at all. Even if you had a magical information copy of your lifetime identity whisking off to new adventures elsewhere, your original "worm" of co-existing body differences or temporal developments would remain.
OTOH, few possibilities could be ruled out if the world was akin to a video game, or a metaverse conference where everybody forgot that they were in a virtual meeting. But a prior-in-rank level responsible for this one is allowed to be radically different (i.e., not that Matrix stuff involving computer simulators). Since otherwise recursively explaining _X_ with a repeat of the nature of _X_ opens the door to Matryoshka dolls all the way up.
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https://youtu.be/ipiewC3QP-k
Is there life after death? (Sam Harris, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, & more)
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ipiewC3QP-k
Though it has zilch to do with preferring it over other fantastic (but unlikely) options, my pick would be the view that Michelle Thaller expresses. I was a little amazed that it was the first one, or even included at all. Even if you had a magical information copy of your lifetime identity whisking off to new adventures elsewhere, your original "worm" of co-existing body differences or temporal developments would remain.
OTOH, few possibilities could be ruled out if the world was akin to a video game, or a metaverse conference where everybody forgot that they were in a virtual meeting. But a prior-in-rank level responsible for this one is allowed to be radically different (i.e., not that Matrix stuff involving computer simulators). Since otherwise recursively explaining _X_ with a repeat of the nature of _X_ opens the door to Matryoshka dolls all the way up.
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https://youtu.be/ipiewC3QP-k
Is there life after death? (Sam Harris, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, & more)