Your Digital Afterlives

Table of Contents

Preface

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

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

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

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

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 Infinite
• 60. 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

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. Enuless Progressions of Gods
• 76. The Limits of Progressions of Gods
• 77. The Epic of Theology
• 78. The Gods above the Gods
• 79. 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

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
• 101. Revision is Not Reincarnation
• 102. Revision is Rebirth
• 103. The Advantages of Revision
• 104. Universal Salvation
• 105. Determinism and Freedom
• 106. Moral Struggle

Superhuman Bodies

• 107. Optimized Universes
• 108. Enhancing your own Genes
• 109. Bodies with the Best Human Powers
• 110. Idealized Universes
• 111. Universal Genetic Logic
• 112. Bodies with the Best Earthly Powers
• 113. Extended Universes
• 114. Genes for Deep Fractal Organs
• 115. The Way of All Flesh

Infinite Bodies

• 116. Subtle Physics
• 117. Subtle Physiology
• 118. Writing an Infinite Book
• 119. Eating an Infinite Feast
• 120. Seeing an Infinite Picture
• 121. Thinking Infinite Thoughts
• 122. Making Infinite Love
• 123. Playing Infinite Games
• 124. Subtle Social Bodies
• 125. Mechanical Archons

Nature

• 126. Abstractness
• 127. The Eruption
• 128. Concreteness

References

Index