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5 After Death Theories
The five existing answers humanity has proposed to the question of what happens at death: reincarnation, heaven and hell, death-as-illusion, death-as-final, and the born-again déjà-vu theory. The book
Core ConceptCitoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a cidentireplica. It is your "you-ness" as experienced through a body that stays structurally identical to yours over time.
Core ConceptComboixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a body that mixes replica types. Most realistic cases of survival combine features of several types at once.
Core ConceptConscious survival
Survival defined from the inside. A future moment counts as your survival if you experience that moment as yours, regardless of which body produces it.
Core ConceptConsciousness
Your inner experience of being a particular body: what it is like to be you. The book treats consciousness as something brain structure produces, not as a separate kind of thing.
Core ConceptCorixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by "cori" replicas. One of the specialized variants in the theory's full taxonomy of bodies that produce your consciousness.
Core ConceptEnhaimmortality
Immortality realized through enhanced versions of you. The bodies that produce your ixperiencitness in the future may be more capable than the one you started with.
Core ConceptEnhaixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by an enhanced replica. Your you-ness, but with augmented mental or physical capacity.
Core ConceptFitoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a fragmented replica. Portions of your you-ness distributed across other bodies, such as children, students, or anyone you have deeply shaped.
Core ConceptIdoimmortality
Immortality through "ido" (identity-of-original) replicas. A specific class of bodies in the theory's full inventory.
Core ConceptIdoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by an ido-class replica. A body whose structural relationship to you preserves a particular identity property of the original.
Core ConceptImmortality
The condition of having no future point at which you cease to experience consciousness. The book argues this follows logically from the production premise. It is not a supernatural claim.
Core ConceptInsixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by an instantaneously formed replica. A body that comes into being already structured like you, with no causal chain to the original.
Core ConceptIsoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by an iso-material replica. Your structure realized in different matter than the original: silicon, simulation, or alternative biology.
Core ConceptItoimmortality
Immortality through any body that produces your ixperiencitness. The broadest form of the theory's immortality claim.
Core ConceptIxperiencitness
The quality of subjective experience that makes it yours. Coined from "I experience it" plus the suffix "-ness." This is the central new word the theory introduces.
Core ConceptLife after death
The continued occurrence of your ixperiencitness in some body, after the death of your current one. The book argues that once you accept how brain structure produces consciousness, this is not optiona
Core ConceptMusixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by "mus" replicas. A particular variant in the theory's full inventory of body types.
Core ConceptNrgixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by "nrg" (energy-based) replicas. Consciousness arising from an energy pattern rather than from ordinary matter.
Core ConceptOrixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by an "ori" (original) body. The specific version of you that started this lifetime, before any copies.
Core ConceptPrinciples of superimmortalism
The principles that follow once you accept superimmortality: how it changes ethics, identity, and the way to live.
Core ConceptPrinciples of superimmortality
The core principles of the theory itself: production, substrate independence, recurrence, and the conclusions they force about death and identity.
Core ConceptProductional itobody Immortality
Immortality made possible because some body that produces your ixperiencitness will be produced again. The active version of the recurrence claim.
Core ConceptScience of superimmortality
The scientific framework for studying superimmortality. Covers its premises, its predictions, the conditions under which it could be falsified, and what empirical work would test it.
Core ConceptSimixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a simulated replica. A body whose structure is realized in a computational substrate rather than physical biology.
Core ConceptSuperimmortalism
The philosophical position that follows from accepting superimmortality. A worldview, a set of values, and a practical stance.
Core ConceptSuperimmortality
The theory's central claim: your ixperiencitness will be produced again and again by different physical systems across space and time. Stronger than ordinary immortality, because it includes enhanced
Core ConceptTotal consciousness
The complete set of all conscious experiences across all bodies that produce your ixperiencitness. Not just one lifetime, but every one of them taken together.
Core ConceptTritoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a truncated replica. A body derived from your structure but with portions removed.
Core ConceptTypes of life after death
The different forms life-after-death can take under the theory: continuation in a replica, fragmentation across many, enhancement beyond your current capacities, or re-emergence in a body that arose i
Core ConceptVitoixperiencitness
The ixperiencitness produced by a "vito" replica. A body that shares your structure but has been allowed to drift naturally over time.