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Your digital afterlives :computational theories of life after death /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Your digital afterlives :Eric Charles Steinhart.
Reminder of title:	computational theories of life after death /
Author:	Steinhart, Eric Charles,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	DeathReligious aspects.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137363862
ISBN:	113736386X (electronic bk.)

Your digital afterlives :computational theories of life after death /
Steinhart, Eric Charles,

Your digital afterlives :computational theories of life after death /Eric Charles Steinhart. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ghosts -- 2. Persistence -- 3. Anatomy -- 4. Uploading -- 5. Promotion -- 6. Digital Gods -- 7. Revision -- 8. Superhuman Bodies -- 9. Infinite Bodies -- 10. Nature.

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.

ISBN: 113736386X (electronic bk.)

Source: 699638Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

318969
Death
--Religious aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BD444

Dewey Class. No.: 128/.5

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