I noticed the Sean Carroll quote: "there is no life after death". And I must agree, except [nonsense]. So, a particular form-pattern could in principle be reconstituted, just as computers can copy & paste data. I wouldn't organize my life around the expectation of a better life in the hereafter (bird in hand . . .). But it's a possibility that philosophers could argue endlessly about. — Gnomon

This might be so for "philosophers" ignorant of Conservation Laws¹ (modern physics > Noether's theorem²). You're right, Gnomon, not hang your tinfoil hat on "form-pattern ... reconstituted" à la miraculously un-scrambling eggs, perpetual motion woo-woo, etc. Sean Carroll is right, of course, insofar as complete dissolution of a dynamic system – death – in effect, randomizes the system-pattern (i.e. information processes) as per maximum entropy.³

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law [1] (re: information is not conserved)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem [2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) [3]

Is the artwork yours? — Gnomon

Yes, my digital compositions, not drawn, or AI, or chatgpt 4o improvements to my art.

I told chatgpt: Rubaiyat era image: improve quality, make realistic, make bright, use a young man or a young woman character from old Persia when needed, and add many creative details and elements; medium vibrant; keep text as it is; use 3:2 aspect ratio always.

Now there's another book in the Lounge - my attempt at illumination:

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15929/book-illuminated-rubaiyat-of-austin-fitzomar