Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : journeying into new worlds of the dead -- Beginnings : online memorialization and haunted social media -- The rise of the avatar -- Can the mind be portable? : theories of mind from Plato to Turing -- Moving minds : transhumanism and the path to Internet afterlife -- Martine Rothblatt and the virtually human -- The truths of Terasem -- Dmitry Itskov and the immortality button -- Itskov and neo-humanity -- The (post)human future?
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