Technological Immortality
Seven years ago I published a paper arguing against afterlife beliefs and various other kinds of โdeath denialโ titled โThe 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 โI dieโ they deny. Strategy 1 denies the dying part โ that is, it argues that I somehow (can) survive my physical/โbiological/โbodily death. Strategy 2 denies the โIโ in...