Reading Guide
You Just Read Part Four: The Strongest Objections
Steelmanning the opposition
Part Four takes the strongest objections seriously. Can consciousness really be reduced to structure? What about the hard problem? What about causal continuity? The book works through each one honestly, showing where the theory bends and where it holds firm.
Read the arguments
2=2 argument
Two identical things can be the same as concepts while different as objects. That gap is why consciousness, which is a pattern, can recur even though a...
ArgumentsAdjective argument
Consciousness behaves like an adjective, not a noun. It is a property of physical structures, not a separate substance. The argument draws out what follows for...
ArgumentsCosmic justice argument
A discussion of whether superimmortality, if true, is fair. The question turns out to be harder than it looks, once you stop treating one lifetime as the whole...
ArgumentsCourage and cowardice argument
An argument about the moral weight of taking superimmortality seriously. Refusing to follow the premises to their conclusion is its own kind of intellectual...