Tag: Medicine

Philosophy

Technological Immortality

Seven years ago I published a paper arguing against afterlife beliefs and various other kinds of โ€œdeath denialโ€ titled โ€œThe Incoherence of Denying My Deathโ€. The denial of death in this sense is not a denial of physical or biological death so much as it is a denial of annihilation. In that paper I distinguished two ways of denying death, which are distinguished essentially by which word in the short proposition โ€œI dieโ€ they deny. Strategy 1 denies the dying part โ€“ that is, it argues that I somehow (can) survive my physical/โ€‹biological/โ€‹bodily death. Strategy 2 denies the โ€œIโ€ in...