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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Your Digital Afterlives
• Author: Eric Charles Steinhart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 259
• EAN: 9781137363855
• ISBN: 1137363851
• ID: 02767455
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 137 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. February 2014

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