1st Edition
Prospects for Immortality A Sensible Search for Life after Death
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
Biography
J Robert Adams (Author)
