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PART SIX: THE BIG PICTURE
The theory placed against religion, atheism, AI, and Pascal's wager. What does the conclusion mean for the universe?
Chapters in this Part
- 27What Superimmortality Offers — and What it CostsHow does superimmortality compare to what religions have promised about life after death? Most people assume the trade-off is straightforward: religion offers comfort, science offers cold truth. But i
- 28Compared to Religion, Atheism, and Everything ElseIxperiencit Theory occupies a unique position among ideas about death and consciousness.
- 29Silicon Minds: AI and the Future of ConsciousnessCan a machine be conscious?
- 30Pascal's Wager, ReversedIn the 17th century, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal proposed a famous argument for believing in God. The argument goes like this: if you believe in God and He exists, you gain infinite reward
- 31The Awakening: Consciousness Expanding Through the UniverseLet me paint a picture of what superimmortality could look like on a cosmic scale. We are now in territory where the premises do the heavy lifting, where the established science of how consciousness i