Video debate: Is there life after death?

Video debate: Is there life after death? http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/05/07/is-there-life-after-death-a-debate/

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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

Boston Review — Alex Byrne: Cheating Death

Boston Review — Alex Byrne: Cheating Death:

Star Trek–style teleportation may one day become a reality. You step into the transporter, which instantly scans your body and brain, vaporizing them in the process. The information is transmitted to Mars, where it is used by the receiving station to reconstitute your body and brain exactly as they were on Earth. You then step out of the receiving station, slightly dizzy, but pleased to arrive on Mars in a few minutes, as opposed to the year it takes by old-fashioned spacecraft.
But wait. Do you really step out of the receiving station on Mars? Someone just like you steps out, someone who apparently remembers stepping into the transporter on Earth a few minutes before. But perhaps this person is merely your replica—a kind of clone or copy. That would not make this person you: in Las Vegas there is a replica of the Eiffel Tower, but the Eiffel Tower is in Paris, not in Las Vegas. If the Eiffel Tower were vaporized and a replica instantly erected in Las Vegas, the Eiffel Tower would not have been transported to Las Vegas. It would have ceased to exist. And if teleportation were like that, stepping into the transporter would essentially be a covert way of committing suicide. Troubled by these thoughts, you now realize that “you” have been commuting back and forth to Mars for years . . .

What goes where after death

From SMBC:

The Mind Uploading Home Page

Mind uploading is a hypothetical process whereby one might achieve life after death in a way that is consistent with versions of physicalism such as functionalism. The Mind Uploading Home Page contains info on relevant scientific research.

Excerpt:

The Mind Uploading home page is dedicated to the putative future process of copying one's mind from the natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans. This technology will radically alter society in many ways, as science fiction authors have begun to illustrate. Through this server, explore the science behind the science fiction!

See also, this article: "Uploading the Mind".