Your Digital Afterlives
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Your Digital Afterlives

Computational Theories of Life after Death

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eBook - ePub

Your Digital Afterlives

Computational Theories of Life after Death

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781137363855
eBook ISBN
9781137363862
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Computer Science General
Index
ℵ0 (aleph-nought), 122, 154, 208
ω (omega) 94, 122, 154, 198, 202, 208
absolute perfection, 126
abstract backbround, 211, 213
abstract objects, 52, 60, 211, 223
acceleration, 198, 200
accumulation, 104, 108, 110, 128, 148, 215
actual god, 108
actualism, 54
alcoholism, 168
aleph-nought (ℵ0), 122, 154, 208
Algorithm
– Dawkinsian, 113–15, 124, 130, 133, 143
– Divine, 143
Algorithm for Divine Evolution, 112
Algorithm for Divine Innovation, 133, 142
Algorithm for Earthly Innovation, 129
algorithms–evolutionary, 111, 130, 133, 175
aliens, 47
alleles, 174
Alpha, 114, 121, 133, 134, 147, 204, 216
anatta, 49, 165
angelic artillects, 74, 91
animal worlds, 139
animat, 46, 56
Anselm, 126, 214
anthropic universes, 150
Aquinas, 77
archons, 209
Argument
Axiological, 146, 169, 214
Cosmological, 54, 77, 94, 226
Design, 54, 79, 106, 130
Fine Tuning, 79
Indispensability, 52, 211
Infinite Engine, 94
Network, 43
Ontological, 54, 214
Proportionality, 80
Simulation, 79
Success, 47
Argument for Accumulation of
Perfection, 120
Argument from Artifacts, 106, 130
Ar...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures and Tables
  6. Series Editors’ Preface
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. I. Ghosts
  9. II. Persistence
  10. III. Anatomy
  11. IV. Uploading
  12. V. Promotion
  13. VI. Digital Gods
  14. VII. Revision
  15. VIII. Superhuman Bodies
  16. IX. Infinite Bodies
  17. X. Nature
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index

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