The Book

Table of Contents

A chapter-by-chapter map of You Never Die with previews and links to the concept library.

Front Matter

THE QUESTION THAT WON'T GO AWAY2 min

PART ONE: THE PROBLEM

1Death is Not What You Think3 min
2The Three Premises — and What Science Says About Them5 min
3Why Your Intuitions Are Wrong3 min

PART TWO: THE THEORY

4You Are Not Your Atoms3 min
5The Ship of Theseus — Applied to You4 min
6Your Brain is Already Proving the Theory5 min
7The Awarepath: Your Conscious Lifetime4 min
8Ixperiencitness: What It's Like to Be You5 min
9The Hard Problem — Honestly4 min
10The Multiplicity of You3 min

PART THREE: THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

11The Identical Replica2 min
12The Continuing Replica and the Paradox it Creates2 min
13The Teleporter Problem3 min
14The Anesthesia Argument2 min
15The Philosophical Zombie Meets the Ixperiencitness Zombie3 min
16The Test for Originalness2 min
17Experience Machines and Designed Consciousness5 min

PART FOUR: THE STRONGEST OBJECTIONS

PART FIVE: WHY YOU ARE IMMORTAL

21Why Continuity Doesn't Matter2 min
22You Have Already Survived Death — Many Times2 min
23Superimmortality: Beyond Ordinary Survival6 min
24Enhanced Versions of You2 min
25The Fragmented You: Consciousness Distributed Across Billions4 min
26Convergence and Divergence: How Conscious Paths Split and Merge2 min

PART SIX: THE BIG PICTURE

27What Superimmortality Offers — and What it Costs4 min
28Compared to Religion, Atheism, and Everything Else1 min
29Silicon Minds: AI and the Future of Consciousness8 min
30Pascal's Wager, Reversed1 min
31The Awakening: Consciousness Expanding Through the Universe4 min

PART SEVEN: IMPLICATIONS

32The Veil of Ignorance and Why Every Life Matters3 min
33The Dark Side: Abhorrent Realities2 min
34What Death Feels Like — and Why It's Not What You Think4 min
35The Significance of You2 min
36What This Means for How You Live1 min
37The Science We Need to Build1 min
38Your Infinite Future1 min
A LETTER to the READER1 min
TAXONOMY of REPLICA TYPES1 min