Is survival after death possible as disembodied souls or minds?
Price’s question is not about whether post-mortem disembodied conscious existence is true, but only whether it is coherent, non-contradictory, or intelligible. Although this appears to me a modest goal, many of the objections to existence as a disembodied mind are objections to the coherence of such idea. Price’s argument is therefore highly relevant. • Price’s Model and Argument: Postmortem survival as a disembodied mind is analogous to a dream world. If the latter is coherent, so is the former. • Post-mortem perceptions will be built up from mental images acquired during our embodied existence and stored up in our memories, in much the same way that our dream worlds are constructed from imagery acquired during our waking state. The imagery would include auditory, smell, visual, and tactual. • Similar to dreams, the events that occur in the next world will be fashioned by our desires or wishes (including those that are suppressed in this life). Conflicting desires or bad desires will
