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Part Seven: Implications

If you accept the conclusion, what changes? The veil of ignorance, the dark side, what death actually feels like, and how to live now.

Chapters in this Part

  1. 32The Veil Of Ignorance And Why Every Life MattersThe philosopher John Rawls proposed a famous thought experiment called the "veil of ignorance." [18] Imagine you are designing the rules for a society, but you don't know what position you will occupy
  2. 33The Dark Side: Abhorrent RealitiesIntellectual honesty requires acknowledging that superimmortality is not entirely a comforting theory. Alongside the promise of enhanced existence and infinite possibility, it also predicts the possib
  3. 34What Death Feels Like — And Why It'S Not What You ThinkWe have spent most of this book talking about what happens after death. But let me address the question that haunts most people: what does death itself feel like?
  4. 35The Significance Of YouIf you believe — as many materialists do — that you have only one short conscious life in a universe that may be infinite in size and exists forever, then you are, by any honest reckoning, very insign
  5. 36What This Means For How You LiveIf superimmortality is real, what does it mean for your life right now?
  6. 37The Science We Need To BuildSuperimmortality is a consequence of what we already know, but realizing its full potential requires scientific progress in several areas.
  7. 38Your Infinite FutureLet me close with a vision of what superimmortality means for your future. This chapter is the most speculative in the book, and deliberately so. Everything here follows from the premises and the logi
  8. NoneAfterword: A Letter To The ReaderThank you for reading this book. What I have presented here is an expanded but still incomplete summary of ideas I have spent decades developing. Ixperiencit Theory encompasses thousands of concepts,
  9. NoneAppendix: Taxonomy Of Replica Types"Another version of you" is not a single concept. There are many different ways another body can relate to your consciousness, and the differences matter. The following are the most important replica