Technological Immortality
Seven years ago I published a paper arguing against afterlife beliefs and various other kinds of βdeath denialβ titled βThe Incoherence of Denying My Deathβ. 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 βI dieβ they deny. Strategy 1 denies the dying part β that is, it argues that I somehow (can) survive my physical/βbiological/βbodily death. Strategy 2 denies the βIβ in...