Description

• Title:
  Transhumanist immortality: Understanding the dream as a nightmare
• Creator:
  García-Barranquero, Pablo
• Description:
  This paper offers new arguments to reject the alleged dream of immortality. In order to do this, I firstly introduce an amendment to Michael Hauskeller’s approach of the “immortalist fallacy”. I argue that the conclusion “we (normally) do not want to live forever” does not follow from the premise “we (normally) do not want to die”. Next, I propose the philosophical turn from “normally” to “under these circumstances” to resolve this logical error. Then, I review strong philosophical critiques of this transhumanist purpose of immortality in the literature. There are two key questions related to the possibility of fulfilling this goal: the hard problem of consciousness and the personal identity dilemma. Finally, I defend a specific type of indefinite life and justify that it is more desirable than our current limited life.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Scientia et Fides
• Date:
  2021.03.14
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021); 177-196;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 9 Nr 1 (2021); 177-196;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2021.006/28742
• Subject:
  Immortalist fallacy;
  immortality;
  indefinite life;
  transhumanism.
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2021.006
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text