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About the Book & This Site

A companion site for You Never Die by Mark Douglas. A scientific case for immortality without gods, souls, or the supernatural.

The Book

You Never Die: A Scientific Case for Immortality Without Gods, Souls, or the Supernatural is Mark Douglas's full-length argument that permanent death is logically impossible for a conscious being, even under strictly materialist assumptions. The book develops the theory from three premises mainstream science already accepts, then follows those premises to a conclusion almost no one has been willing to state plainly.

It is published by Zasder Publishing, an imprint dedicated to long-form books that take ideas seriously. The book is available in paperback and ebook.

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This Site

volney.co is a companion site for readers of the book. It offers:

• A Start Here page that walks through the whole argument in five minutes.
• Reading paths: curated sequences through the theory.
• Topic hubs: thematic collections of concepts.
• A concept library with 97 focused articles.
• Chapter-by-chapter previews with key terms cross-referenced to the concept library.
• A glossary of the specialized vocabulary developed in the theory.
• An A–Z index of every page on the site.
• Full text search (press /) across everything.

Three Sources of More

• The book itself. The full, rigorous argument, every chapter.
• awaretheory.com. The underlying theory wiki, with thousands of pages of technical detail developed over decades.
• zasder.com. Mark Douglas's publisher, with research on consciousness, AI, infrastructure, and systems thinking.

The Author

Mark Douglas has spent decades developing the theory of structure-and-functioning consciousness, ixperiencitness, and superimmortality that the book presents. You Never Die is the definitive popular statement of that work.

How This Site Was Built

volney.co is a static site generated from two sources: the book manuscript and a curated subset of the awaretheory.com wiki. The build pipeline produces about 150 pages with custom SVG diagrams, light and dark themes drawn from the book cover, full-text client-side search, and per-page structured data. Source code is private. No analytics, no trackers, no third-party scripts beyond Google Fonts.