Prospects for Immortality

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 A Bird's-eye View Upcoming Chapters

CHAPTER 2 Personal Survival after Death
The Saved Consciousness Hypothesis
The Case for Life After Death
Saved Memory
The Subatomic Quantum World
Regenerating Consciousness
Continuous Transfer
Recall After Alzheimer's
Speculations
A New Body
New Dimensions
Resequencing
Other People
Conclusion

CHAPTER 3 Meet the Grim Reaper
The Death and Rebirth of the Body (A Thought Experiment)
The Death and Resurrection of the Cell
(An Actual Experiment)
Body Freezing
Fear of Death

CHAPTER 4 Postponing Death
Extending the Life Span
Aging
Stop-Gap Measures
Freezing
The Necessity of Death
Ticking Time Bomb

CHAPTER 5 The Elimination of Death
The Final Common Pathway
Transfer and Playback
Questions

CHAPTER 6 What, Where, Why?

CHAPTER 7 How Did I Come into the World? Who Am I?
Life's Beginnings
Darwin
Mutations and DNA
The Subjective Part of Me

CHAPTER 8 Where Am I? What is This Thing
Called the World?
The Big Bang
Stars
Red Giants
White Dwarfs
Neutron Stars
Black Holes

CHAPTER 9 Why Was I Not Consulted?
Where is the Manager?
Judaism
Christianity
Hinduism
Reincarnation
Buddhism
Islam
Contrasting Views of the Soul
Anticipating Death

CHAPTER 10 A Chat with Kierkegaard

APPENDIX I Recycled Life versus New Life

APPENDIX II Making Protein

APPENDIX III The Saved Consciousness Hypothesis

APPENDIX IV Random Assortment & Crossover

APPENDIX V Cell Energy

APPENDIX VI Tweaking the Consciousness Wave

Additional Readings

Index