Posted: Nov 13, 2014 4:36 pm
surreptitious57 wrote:The spectrum therefore is more nuanced than you are allowing for.
I've been pretty clear in my posts that there are no empirical measures of suffering and that this is very much a personal experience. I've also covered that people can experience similar "suffering scenarios" in very different ways because of mental attitude. I've got the nuances covered thanks.
surreptitious57 wrote: Since zero is the default setting for the dead too then in this scenario the living experience no more suffering on average than the dead.
No. The dead are not at zero on the scale of experiencing, as they cannot experience anything. Therefore they cannot experience zero suffering, as they have no means of doing so.
All that can be said about the dead is that they cannot experience suffering. They are therefore not on the scale.