Internet afterlife : virtual salvation in the 21st century /: virtual salvation in the 21st century. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kevin O'Neill.
• Authors: O'Neill, Kevin, 1941-
• Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction: Journeying into New Worlds of the Dead2. Beginnings: Online Memorialization and Haunted Social Media3. The Rise of the Avatar4. Can the Mind Be Portable? Theories of Mind from Plato to Turing5. Moving Minds: Transhumanism and the Path to Internet Afterlife6. Martine Rothblatt and the Virtually Human7. The Truths of Terasem8. Dmitry Itskov and the Immortality Button9. Itskov and Neo-Humanity10. The (Post)Human Future?NotesBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 306.9; Religion -- General; Death; Future life; Internet; World Wide Web; Information technology; Theological anthropology; Ethical & social aspects of IT
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216104032
• Related ISBNs: 9781440837968
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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