Infinite Flesh

After you die, your life cannot continue in any way. Since death is the end of your life, it is not logically possible for your life to go on. Your life is over. Although logic does not allow your life to continue after death, it does allow your life to be repeated. After you die, another body can live your life - as in the eternal return of the same. And while that other body won't be identical to your body, its life will be identical to your life. Logic also allows your life to be revised. After you die, another body can live an improved version of your life. If the life of some other body is an improved version of your life, then that other body is one of your resurrection counterparts. It is one of your better selves.

We're going to argue that for every way your life can be improved, you have a better self whose life is improved in exactly that way. Your earthly self is followed by a plurality of better selves. Each of your better selves lives out, from birth to death, a revised and more perfect version of your life. For any negativity - disease, injury, or misfortune - that you suffer in your earthly life, you have a better self who does not suffer from that negativity. And yet your better selves may still suffer from some negativities of their own. Some of their positive potentials may be unrealized. Their lives can also be improved. Your better selves have better selves of their own. They too are resurrected an improved. You are the root of a branching tree of resurrection counterparts. From revision to revision, your counterparts grow more and more perfect. All their positive potentials are eventually realized. They approach and achieve infinite perfection. But not alone.

Each one of your better selves lives its life in another and more excellent version of our society, on another and more excellent version of our earth, in another and more excellent version of our universe. Just as your life is followed by a plurality of improved resurrection counterparts, so our universe is followed by a plurality of improved resurrection universes. We will argue for a plurality of actual physical universes linked by a computational law: for every way to improve any universe, there exists a universe that is improved in exactly that way. Any way to improve the life of any body in a universe is a way to improve that universe. Just as your body is the root of a branching tree of resurrection counterparts, so our universe is the root of a branching tree of resurrection universes.

We refer to the theory of perfection through endless revision as the revision theory of resurrection (the RTR). The RTR involves no miracles. The RTR is consistent with our best science. But it is more than merely scientifically possible. The RTR is supported by empirical arguments. It is scientifically plausible. It has real explanatory power. The RTR is further supported by many arguments from philosophical theology. It is a part of a highly rational theology. At the logical origin of all things, there is a maximally powerful goodness - maximally creative benevolence. At the logical end of all things, there is a maximally perfect being. And between the origin and the end, there is a maximally rich process that actualizes all the positive potentials of all possible things.