LEADER 05608nam 22007455 450 001 9910485032403321 005 20200919060709.0 010 $a3-319-19093-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-19093-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000474266 035 $a(EBL)4099107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001585648 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16263184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001585648 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14864077 035 $a(PQKB)11506198 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-19093-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4099107 035 $z(PPN)258849339 035 $a(PPN)190530731 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000474266 100 $a20150909d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat If We Don't Die?$b[electronic resource] $eThe Morality of Immortality /$fby Peter Hulsroj 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Copernicus,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 225 1 $aPopular Science,$x2626-6113 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-19092-X 327 $aForeword -- 1. Immortality again? -- 2. Is that really a question? -- 3. Choices, choices -- 4. What is eternity? -- 5. The timeless and the ageless -- 6. Time and existence -- 7. Pantheism and spirit as substance -- 8. Communitarian happiness -- 9. Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas.- 10. Immortality through parallel universes -- 11. Death of compassion? -- 12. Identity and infinity -- 13. God, spacetime and the mathematical universe -- 14. Winston decides not to die! -- 15. God is and is not -- 16. Linear and non-linear logic -- 17. What is immortality? -- 18. Is anything forever existing? -- 19. The limits of you! -- 20. The mind/body problem resolved? -- 21. So why we were not created immortal? -- 22. Loss and value -- 23. Ego, Todestrieb and immortality -- 24. Why immortality is death -- 25. Why seize the day? -- 26. Are the gods immortal? -- 27. Immortality of the devil -- 28. The immortality of not being born -- 29. Oh, Jerusalem! -- 30. In the twilight zone between death and immortality -- 31. Movement and immortality -- 32. So, what is so horrible about death? -- 33. Lust for life, or fear of non-existence? -- 34. Immortality and intergenerational justice -- 35. A return to immediacy? -- 36. Personal relativity and time -- 37. A world of immortals -- 38. Natural selection and immortality -- 39. The tragedy of the longest life! -- 40. Choosing life! -- 41. Humans and humankind -- 42. Immortality for humanity, Darwin for everybody else? -- 43. Gaia and dystopia -- 44. Beyond the limits of rationality -- 45. Longer life or immortality? -- 46. Birth undone -- 47. The medicated good death -- 48. Death elective -- 49. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed -- 50.  So ?. -- 51. An afterthought ? the fifth dimension. 330 $aThis book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality, and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. The book looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive, and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration and personal development it possibly could.  What If We Don?t Die? -   Presents major moral dilemmas associated with human immortality, something which seems imminent due to rapidly progressing biomedical research. -  Touches on big questions: is it acceptable that the immortal generation will be the last? How much life do you want? What is the purpose of life if life never ends? -  Will trigger your imagination by putting a new spin on free will, current concepts of time and eternity, the possibility of multiple universes and multiple yous.  What If We Don?t Die?  draws extensively on philosophical and religious thought on the purpose of life and introduces novel perspectives on existence, personality and immortality based, for instance, on quantum mechanics and multiverse theory. 410 0$aPopular Science,$x2626-6113 606 $aEthics 606 $aCulture 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aAstrophysics 606 $aEvolutionary biology 606 $aEthics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E14000 606 $aSociology of Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22100 606 $aPhilosophy of Mind$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E31000 606 $aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22006 606 $aEvolutionary Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L21001 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aAstrophysics. 615 0$aEvolutionary biology. 615 14$aEthics. 615 24$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Mind. 615 24$aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Biology. 676 $a100 700 $aHulsroj$b Peter$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064159 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485032403321 996 $aWhat If We Don't Die$92597680 997 $aUNINA