Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
I think the essence of his argument, however poorly stated, is more like "No evidence has been found for dualism, which is the only means for continuity between your brain and any other existence, so therefore (because continuity cannot be maintained) nobody can have an immortal existence."

And I agree with you that anyone who believes they have an immortal soul isn't going to be impressed by anything this guy has to say.
Why this whole run-around with discussing connectomes and memory and continuity? None of it addresses his initial charge, that the dualism argument he sees in society is wrong. Just who is he trying to convince? Sure sounds from his argumentation that he's trying to argue with followers of Nikolos Daru Ede or some weird transhumanist collective rather than the actual group he explicitly took issue with.