Overview
- Presents major moral dilemmas associated with human immortality, something which seems imminent due to rapidly progressing biomedical research
- Touches on big questions: is it acceptable that the immortal generation will be the last? How much life do you want? What is the purpose of life if life never ends?
- Will trigger your imagination by putting a new spin on free will, current concepts of time and eternity, the possibility of multiple universes and multiple yours
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Science (POPS)
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
Keywords
- Atemporal versus everlasting
- Choosing how long you live
- Free will and the multiverse
- Immortality on Earth
- Last generation of humans
- Much longer life or immortality?
- Quantum mechanics and eternal life
- Spacetime and immortality
- Uploading your mind on a computer
- Was god created?
- Why do we fear death?
- You in many universes
About this book
This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable.
It looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration and personal development it possibly could.
What If We Don’t Die?
- Presents major moral dilemmas associated with human immortality, something which seems imminent due to rapidly progressing biomedical research.
- Touches on big questions: is it acceptable that the immortal generation will be the last? How much life do you want? What is the purpose of life if life never ends?
- Will trigger your imagination by putting a new spin on free will, current concepts of time and eternity, the possibility of multiple universes and multiple yous.
What If We Don’t Die? draws extensively on philosophical and religious thought on the purpose of life and introduces novel perspectives on existence, personality and immortality based, for instance, on quantum mechanics and multiverse theory.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What If We Don't Die?
Book Subtitle: The Morality of Immortality
Authors: Peter Hulsroj
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19093-8
Publisher: Copernicus Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19092-1Published: 24 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19093-8Published: 09 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Sociology of Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology