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How the Afterlife Matters
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This comment questions Scheffler’s account of how and why the collective afterlife matters to us. Many things that matter to us, in particular those things whose mattering to us depends on their intrinsic features, might well continue to matter to us even if we believed there was no collective afterlife. And to the extent that the afterlife does matter to us, it is not because it matters to us that humanity has a future, but instead because it matters to us that others are aware of us, whether in the future or present.
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This comment questions Scheffler’s account of how and why the collective afterlife matters to us.
Many things that matter to us, in particular those things whose mattering to us depends on their intrinsic features, might well continue to matter to us even if we believed there was no collective afterlife.
And to the extent that the afterlife does matter to us, it is not because it matters to us that humanity has a future, but instead because it matters to us that others are aware of us, whether in the future or present.
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