Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death (Death, Value and Meaning) [Hardcover]

J. Robert Adams (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0895032287 | ISBN-13: 978-0895032287 | Publication Date: January 2003

What happens to us when we die? Is it the end of us? If consciousness is the part of our life that we would like to preserve, then our wish may be closer to the truth than is commonly considered.

Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its ultimate fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness. Readers of this volume will be prompted to think about the basic concepts of life, death, and consciousness in a unique way. Written in a style that entertains and informs, author J. Robert Adams speculates on how the transfer of memory and consciousness into the hereafter occurs in conjunction with the physical, chemical, and historical facts already established by science.

Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its ultimate fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness. Readers of this volume will be prompted to think about the basic concepts of life, death, and consciousness in a unique way. Written in a style that entertains and informs, author J. Robert Adams speculates on how the transfer of memory and consciousness into the hereafter occurs in conjunction with the physical, chemical, and historical facts already established by science.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 170 pages
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895032287
• ISBN-13: 978-0895032287
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,357,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Hypothesis--I hope the author reads my review., February 20, 2006

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This review is from: Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death (Death, Value and Meaning) (Hardcover)

This was a great read. I gave it 5 stars for the hypothesis alone but, in my humble opinion, the author did not address an interesting paradox associated with "copying" consciousness: If I am to believe that I am a unique individual in the entire universe(s), then copying can only be acheived if the original is destroyed--otherwise, how could there be multiple versions of me if I am unique? I have had insights that have led me to consider the possiblity that the brain is a type of transmitter/receiver, and that the physical body a type of remote operated vehicle (ROV) like a Mars probe or deep sea submersible. In this context the actual Self could already be located in subatomic space and living out a perfect vitual reality via the physical body. Transfer of data is all that occurs, and physical death merely means and end to the data stream, just like when a Mars probe goes "dead". The virtual reality of this system is so convincing that the Self actually relates/identifies with the physical body in its environment and fears death, pain, etc. This is a mere sketch of my thoughts on this matter and I am nowhere near finished thinking about it. I thank the author for this inspirational book that has accelerated my own thinking. And if I misunderstood what he said in his book and there is no paradox to address, then I humbly appologize to the author.