In my ever after : immortality and its critics /

In my ever after : immortality and its critics /

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Author / Creator:	Geis, Robert J.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
Description:	x, 226 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Immortality (Philosophy) Consciousness -- Philosophy. Consciousness -- Research. Consciousness -- Philosophy. Consciousness -- Research. Immortality (Philosophy)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8358131

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Varying Form of Title:	Immortality and its critics
ISBN:	9780761852650 0761852654
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-216) and index.
Summary:	"An argument against a current school, neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Without exposing the equation's weaknesses, the question of immortality, is moot. Part I identifies many epistemic and scientific grounds for a real world outside consciousness and self-refutational flaws in quantum physics. It employs the phenomenological method to situate "consciousness" and "other" in their relations. Part II sets forth why consciousness cannot be electrical in origin, and then how partibility and subjectivity, in tandem with the power of conceptualization, evince reasons for accepting immortal consciousness as a condition of all human awareness. A discussion of why pharmacologic explanations for the OBE and NDE are wanting, plus neurologic arguments for memory's non-localizability, and how animal sentience adds to the philosophic conviction coordinate with Scripture on animal existence beyond the grave, concludes the argument"--P. [4] of cover.
Other form:	Online version: Geis, Robert J. In my ever after. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010

Table of Contents:

Preface
I. More than Consciousness
Quantum Theory and Realities of Distinction
Methodology
Consciousness
Other
Color and Objectification
The Extralinguistic Object
II. Consciousness Immortal
Disintegration and Partibility
Death and Purpose
Indivisible Sensation and "Zombie" Theory
Coherence, Percept, Qualia
Other Difficulties for Neurophilosophy
Conceptualization, Memory, Immateriality
Anecdotal or Evidential?
Sentient Immortality
Another World
Notes
Index
About the Author