Your Digital Afterlives [electronic resource] : Computational Theories of Life after Death /
Steinhart, E.author.
Nagasawa, Y.editor.
Wielenberg, E.editor.
Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Preface and Acknowledgments; I Ghosts; 1 Digital ghosts; 2 Your Facebook timeline; 3 Your totally quantified self; 4 Your ghost brains day by day; 5 Replaying your mental life; 6 The eternal return of the same; 7 Beyond digital ghosts; II Persistence; 8 Pipelines; 9 The game of life; 10 The flight of the gliders; 11 Living in four dimensions; 12 There is no identity through time; 13 Fusion and fission; 14 Bodies are stages of lives; 15 Your counterparts in other times; 16 Attachment breeds suffering
17 Your ghostly counterpartsIII Anatomy; 18 Our finite earthly cells; 19 Cells have minds; 20 The form of the cell; 21 The life of the cell; 22 Digital cells; 23 The brain computes; 24 The nervous system computes; 25 The immune system computes; 26 The body computes; 27 Our finite earthly bodies; 28 The form of the body; 29 The life of the body; 30 Digital bodies; 31 Persons are bodies; 32 Personal impermanence; 33 The soul is the form of the body; 34 Naturalism; IV Uploading; 35 Body scanners; 36 Digital replication; 37 Terrestrial simulators; 38 Teleporting into cyberspace
39 Processes joined by pipes40 One life piped into another; 41 Spans contain many lives; 42 Stages of spans are counterparts; 43 Uploading is resurrection; 44 Resurrection is self-actualization; 45 Uploading into utopia; 46 Designing utopian physics; 47 Designing utopian biology; 48 Designing utopian society; 49 Beyond uploading; V Promotion; 50 Digital physics; 51 The Engineers; 52 The higher universe; 53 The simulation hypothesis; 54 Promotion is resurrection; 55 All forms of human wickedness; 56 Moral enhancement; 57 Life in the resurrection universe; 58 The iterated simulation argument
59 From the finite to the infinite60 The infinite engine argument; 61 The heavens above the heavens; 62 Obligatory promotion; 63 Iterated resurrection; 64 Spans of promoted lives; 65 Life in the higher universes; 66 Beyond promotion; VI Digital Gods; 67 Our Designer; 68 Earthly organisms evolve; 69 Divine organisms evolve; 70 Evolution by rational selection; 71 The growth of the Great Tree; 72 Complexity is logical density; 73 Logical density is intrinsic value; 74 Complexity is intrinsic value; 75 Endless progressions of gods; 76 The limits of progressions of gods; 77 The epic of theology
78 The gods above the gods79 Earthly designers evolve; 80 Divine designers evolve; 81 Digital gods are creative engines; 82 Recursive self-improvement; 83 The epic of cosmology; 84 Relations between universes; 85 Against mere hedonism; VII Revision; 86 Design constraints; 87 The Divine Algorithm; 88 The optimistic principle; 89 The epic of physics; 90 Physical structure; 91 Biological structure; 92 Anthropic structure; 93 Prosperous structure; 94 Infinite structure; 95 The epic of biology; 96 Guides carry clients; 97 Spans of revised lives; 98 The epic of you; 99 Biological transcendence
100 Revision is not resurrection
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death.
Philosophy.
Science
Self.
Computer science.
Information theory.
Philosophy of Religion.
Philosophy of Science.
Self and Identity.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Theory of Computation.