These are articles of faith. Either position is metaphysically and ontologically loaded, and *unfalsifiable* by current means.
You may as well say God is real (or dead).
Also, they are not the only two possible interpretations.
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No "seeming" relative in claims that are totally contradictory. That's a red herring.
(Non)continuity of the existence of you after the death of the body is nothing if not a metaphysical claim (under our current understanding of physics, at any rate).
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Yes, I'm more interested in the entailments than the core.
Descartes realizes cogito ergo sum. (Can be shortened to "sum" and achieve the same point, but I digress.)
Then he goes out and tries to construct an entire metaphysics. It seems to me like these are not equally true.
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Similar attitude. I will experimentally believe things and instrumentally believe things, but I am very agnostic about most anything, fundamentally.
Which is not to say I never buy into anything...