Tag: Technology

Philosophy

Technological Immortality

Seven years ago I published a paper arguing against afterlife beliefs and various other kinds of β€œdeath denial” titled β€œThe Incoherence of Denying My Death”. 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 β€œI die” they deny. Strategy 1 denies the dying part – that is, it argues that I somehow (can) survive my physical/​biological/​bodily death. Strategy 2 denies the β€œI” in...