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The fact is that we don't know what life is, or death, and it's a fallacy to say that simply because you don't have any memories prior to the age of 2 that you didn't exist until you were born or that you won't have some experience after you die.
Well, since that is empirical evidence: Yeah. I make that argument
Just because one can come up with two scenarios doesn't make them more likely. You look at a box in the street and then one goes "probably empty" and the other goes "no, there's a magical fairy inside"...doesn't make the two alternatives equally likely.
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'I don't know, but I'm open to the possibility'
Just because the box may not be empty I'm not automatically open to it containing fairies. Are you? Just because something is thinkable doesn't add one bit of probability to it.
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You don't believe there is anything?
I have absolutely no shred of evidence to the contrary. I find holding an opinion without evidence to be simply wishful thinking. as long as there is no evidence I'll go with the ground state (i.e. nothing)
In any case: What does it matter? If there is nothing after death you won't find out. If there is something after death you will find out. So you
don't lose either way. I just find it pointless wasting time thinking about "fairies in the box".