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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) , philosophy , psychology , biology , theology , biochemistry

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.

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