Your Digital Afterlives : Computational Theories of Life After Death

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. "Cover"--"Half-Title" -- "Series" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "Series Editorsâ#x80;#x99; 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 counterparts" -- "III 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 pipes" -- "40 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." Our digital technologies have inspired new ways of thinking about old religious topics. Digitalists include computer scientists, transhumanists, singularitarians, and futurists. Writers such as Moravec, Bostrom, Kurzweil, and Chalmers are digitalists. Although they are usually scientists, rationalists, and atheists, digitalists they have worked out novel and entirely naturalistic ways of thinking about bodies, minds, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives starts with three digitalist theories of life after death. It examines personality capture, body uploading, and promotion to higher levels of simulation. It then examines the idea that reality itself is ultimately a system of self-surpassing computations. On that view, you will have infinitely many digital lives across infinitely many digital worlds. Your Digital Afterlives looks at superhuman bodies and infinite bodies. Thinking of nature in purely computational terms has the potential to radically and positively change our understanding of life after death Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Ghosts....Pages 1-11 Persistence....Pages 12-29 Anatomy....Pages 30-54 Uploading....Pages 55-76 Promotion....Pages 77-105 Digital Gods....Pages 106-141 Revision....Pages 142-172 Superhuman Bodies....Pages 173-196 Infinite Bodies....Pages 197-210 Nature....Pages 211-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-259