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Reply to Smook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Antony Flew
Antony Flew*
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University of Reading
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I feel most flattered by the careful attention which Dr. Roger Smook has devoted to my paper “Is There a Case for Disembodied Survival?” and I am duly grateful to him.

We certainly agree that the most important thing in his reply is his response to my challenge “to show: (a) that there can be a coherent notion of an incorporeal personal being, and (b) that a being of this sort could significantly be said to be the same person as he was when he was a creature of flesh and blood” (p. 139). Smook's response runs: “By a conscious being (henceforth abbreviated ‘CB’) I understand any entity which has an ongoing conscious life of however rudimentary a sort …. I begin by assuming 1.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , March 1975 , pp. 495 - 497
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Copyright © The Authors 1975

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