Your Digital Afterlives

Preface

Persistence

1. Against Endurance

1.1 Human Change

1.2 There is No Identity through Time

2. Lives and Lifemates

2.1 Computational Continuity

2.2 Bodies are Stages of Lives

2.3 Temporal Counterpart Theory

Capture

3. Technical Possibility

4. Survival as a Digital Ghost

5. The Generations of Ghosts

5.1 First Generation Ghosts

5.2 Second Generation Ghosts

5.3 Third Generation Ghosts

5.4 Fourth Generation Ghosts

6. Beyond Digital Ghosts

Anatomy

7. The Logic of the Cell

7.1 Cells are Finitely Complex

7.2 Cells are Networks of Nanites

7.3 The Form of the Cell

7.4 Bions are Digital Cells

8. Physiological Computation

8.1 The Central Nervous System Computes

8.2 The Nervous System Computes

8.3 The Immune System Computes

8.4 The Body Computes

9. The Logic of the Body

9.1 Bodies Run Programs

9.2 Animats are Networks of Bions

10. Bodies and Souls

10.1 Persons are Bodies

10.2 The Definition of the Soul

Uploading

11. Digital Replication

11.1 Scanning

11.2 Body Simulators

11.3 Terrestrial Simulators

11.4 Teleporting into Cyberspace

12. Spans and Spanmates

12.1 Lives in Succession

12.2 The Temporality of Spanmates

13. Uploading is Resurrection

13.1 The Definition of Resurrection

13.2 Resurrection is Self-Actualization

13.3 The Who Cares Objection

14. Utopia

14.1 Designing Utopia

14.2 Designing Utopian Physics

14.3 Designing Utopian Biology

14.4 Designing Utopian Society

15. Beyond Uploading

Promotion

16. An Artificial Universe

16.1 Building Artificial Universes

16.2 The Parable of Promotion

16.3 The Proof of Promotion

17. The Simulation Hypothesis

17.1 Digital Physics

17.2 The Simulation Argument

17.3 The Design Argument

17.4 The Nature of the Higher Universe

18. Promotion is Resurrection

18.1 The Engineers Will Promote Us

18.2 The Logistics of Promotion

18.3 The Resurrection Theory of John Hick

18.4 Universal Salvation

18.5 Life in the Resurrection Universe

19. The Iterated Simulation Hypothesis

19.1 The Iterated Simulation Argument

19.2 From the Finite to the Infinite

19.3 The Iterated Cosmological Argument

19.4 The Iterated Design Argument

19.5 The Natures of the Higher Universes

20. On Serial Resurrection

20.1 Obligatory Promotion

20.2 Some Pareschatology

20.3 Spans with Many Lives

20.4 Life in the Higher Universes

21. Beyond Promotion

The Tree of Engines

22. Some Theistic Arguments

22.1 The First Cause Argument

22.2 The Design Argument

23. Beyond Theism

23.1 From God to Gods

23.2 Recursive Self-Improvement

23.3 All Degrees of Divinity are Positive

23.4 From Gods to Deities

23.5 From Deities to Engines

24. The Ascent to the Infinite

24.1 The Endless Procession of Finite Engines

24.2 The Existence of Limit Engines

24.3 The Nature of Limit Engines

25. Transfinite Engines

25.1 The Transfinitely Extended Chain of Numbers

25.2 Axioms for the Creation of Engines

25.3 The Transfinitely Extended Chain of Engines

25.4 The Transfinitely Ramified Tree of Engines

25.5 The Tree of Engines is Atheistic

26. Ontology

26.1 The Platonic Hierarchy

26.2 The Abstract Universes

26.3 The Tree of Concrete Universes

26.4 Physical Relations between Universes

27. Being and Value

27.1 The Abstractness of Evil

27.2 The Best of All Possible Worlds

Revision

28. The Epic of Physics

28.1 The Cosmological Hierarchy

28.2 The Emergence of Physical Structure

28.3 The Emergence of Chemical Structure

28.4 The Emergence of Biological Structure

28.5 Possible Lives of Simple Souls

29. The Epic of Biology

29.1 The Biological Hierarchy

29.2 The Initial Generation

29.3 The Improvements of Universes

29.4 Individuals in Collectives

29.5 The Successor Generations

29.6 The Improvements of Progressions of Universes

29.7 The Limit Generations

30. Revision is Resurrection

30.1 The Epic of Resurrection

30.2 Trees of Revised Lives

30.3 The Emergence of Humanity

30.4 Trees of Revised Human Lives

30.5 Your Future Flourishing

31. Spreads and Spreadmates

31.1 Spreads of Lives in Branching Trees

31.2 Spreads of Bodies in Branching Trees

31.3 On Continuity through Revision

31.4 On Who You Are and Who You Will Be

31.5 The Advantages of Revision

32. An Illustration of Revision

32.1 Possible Lives of Human Souls

32.2 The Many Lives of One Person

32.3 The Ascent to Personal Perfection

32.4 Resurrection in Another Universe

32.5 Resurrection Over and Over Again

32.6 The Progress of the Self

33. On the Flourishing of Nature

Finite Bodies

34. Bodies Beyond Bodies

35. Earthly Bodies

35.1 Earthly Universes

35.2 Earthly Genotypes

35.3 Earthly Phenotypes

35.4 From the Earthly to the Optimized

36. Optimized Bodies

36.1 Optimized Universes

36.2 Optimized Genotypes

36.3 Optimized Phenotypes

36.4 From the Optimized to the Idealized

37. Idealized Bodies

37.1 Idealized Universes

37.2 Idealized Genotypes

37.3 Idealized Phenotypes

37.4 From the Idealized to the Extended

38. Extended Bodies

38.1 Extended Universes

38.2 Extended Genotypes

38.3 Extended Phenotypes

38.4 From the Extended to the Countably Infinite

Infinite Bodies

39. From the Finite to the Transfinite

39.1 The Progression of Zeno Fractions

39.2 Zeno Compression and Acceleration

40. Transfinite Physical Complexity

40.1 Infinite State Machines

40.2 An Infinite Driving Game

40.3 Infinite Networks of Infinite State Machines

41. Transfinitely Complex Organisms

41.1 A First Example of a Super-Organism

41.2 A Second Example of a Super-Organism

41.3 A Super-Organism Makes an Infinitary Drawing

42. Subtle Bodies

42.1 Subtle Universes

42.2 Subtle Genotypes

42.3 Subtle Phenotypes

42.4 Your Subtle Resurrection Counterparts

43. Transfinitely Complex Minds

43.1 Cognitive Supertasks

43.2 Transfinite Intentionality

44. Some Cognitive Powers of Superminds

44.1 Super-Perception

44.2 Super-Thought

44.3 Super-Will

44.4 Infinitary Athletic Contests

44.5 Some Simple Social Superminds

45. Bigger Infinities

45.1 Uncountable Infinities

45.2 Uncountably Infinite Minds

45.3 Uncountably Infinite Activities

Brightness

46. The Bright Forest

47. Salvation in Brightness

48. The Beatific Vision