Eric Steinhart
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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
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