Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia, Michael Shermer

Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song Heaven is a Place on Earth It s actually scientifically accurate. American public intellectual Michael Shermer says that any idea of the afterlife makes zero sense: your mind and therefore your memories are beholden to your body and that any version of you that made it into heaven, should there actually be one, would just be a copy of you and unable to register that they were actually in heaven. Likewise, should you be able to scan your brain and live forever by being uploaded to a body in the future, it still wouldn t be you, just a copy. Confused The explanation makes more sense from the mouth of Sherm