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Part One: The Problem

The book opens by precisely defining the question almost no one asks: what exactly ends when you die? The five existing answers all fall short. The book then turns the materialist worldview against the usual assumption that ordinary materialism implies final death. It finds that it does not.

Chapters in this Part

  1. 1Death Is Not What You ThinkHere is a question almost no one asks: What exactly ends when you die?
  2. 2The Three Premises — And What Science Says About ThemBefore we go further, we need to establish what science actually knows about consciousness, because the entire argument that follows rests on scientific premises, not speculation.
  3. 3Why Your Intuitions Are WrongThere is a powerful argument against everything I have just said, and it goes like this: "That can't be right. It just doesn't feel right. I know I am this body, this brain, these atoms. A copy of me