Do you really think we need religion to believe in an afterlife?

[StayHungry]

If there exists an afterlife, it exists inside each individual who thinks one up. A lot of people these days I think fantasize about a technological eutopia, the ultimate extension of humanity. Whether this is possible only time will tell.

[CrayZee]

If I upload my brain into a super chip, a split second before I die, does that count as an afterlife?

[FortunaMaximus]

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If I upload my brain into a super chip, a split second before I die, does that count as an afterlife?

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Technically, no. That'd be one transhumanist outlet.

Cybernetic immortality is not an afterlife, but you could plausibly construct scenarios to ease the transition, and create Heaven and Hell and Gahanna and Valhalla if you wish.

But why stop there? For most individuals you would have to though. They couldn't handle it.

[einbert]

You don't need religion to believe in the possibility of an afterlife, but if you are quite certain of an afterlife that you have specific information about you would have to be said to be religious (and nutty imo).