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Naturalistic Theories of Life after Death
Author(s) -
Steinhart Eric
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12193
Subject(s) - immortality , dualism , naturalism , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , persistence (discontinuity) , psychology , philosophy , biology , engineering , theology , biochemistry , geotechnical engineering
After rejecting substance dualism, some naturalists embrace patternism. It states that persons are bodies and that bodies are material machines running abstract person programs. Following Aristotle, these person programs are souls. Patternists adopt four‐dimensionalist theories of persistence: Bodies are 3D stages of 4D lives. Patternism permits at least six types of life after death. It permits quantum immortality, teleportation, salvation through advanced technology, promotion out of a simulated reality, computational monadology, and the revision theory of resurrection.