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>>11112416

>We can't conceive of multiple perspectives

I don't know what you mean by this. Are you saying I can't conceive of what it's like to be a different person? Because I don't agree.

> also can't conceive of death and sleep unless negations of our present state so these are incoherent concepts too right.

Nope, because those concepts involve, respectively, the continued existence of the rest of the universe and of my sleeping body. Same for the concept of the world before your own birth. Those concepts do not require the attempt to think of the negation of absolutely everything. And, maybe more importantly, they are ordinary features of natural experience; if we were instead intelligent organisms with no examples of unconsciousness (though such organisms don't seem biologically possible) then the intelligibility of the concept might seem very suspicious, and we might have no reason to accept it. In that case, we would be incorrect about the concept's coherence, owing to proper epistemic caution that is, nonetheless, more often reliable than not.