Episode Notes and Links

Pete Mandik talks to philosopher Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University) about his book, Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death. They dig deep into the computational and value-theoretic foundations of all existence. Other topics tackled include atheistic neopaganism, the cognitive science of hyper-arousal trances, the prudential self-concern of mind-uploads, entheogenic drugs, and Roko’s basilisk. Get comfy with a hot bowl of monads and enjoy the show while an infinite army of zombie-Leibnizes tear up the town.

(The audio for this episode is drawn from the video chat viewable here: @YouTube.)

Links:

• Eric's webpage: ericsteinhart.com

• David Auerbach - The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

• Eric Steinhart - Axiarchism and Paganism 

• Eric Steinhart - The Evolution of Naturalistic Gods

• God’s God by DarkMatter2525