{"id":124,"date":"2014-05-07T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:42:18","slug":"chris-belshaw-wins-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Chris Belshaw wins immortality\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026or the next best thing, a grant to study immortality for six months. A number of philosophers have asked whether it might be good if we could live forever, and have offered diverging verdicts. Assuming living forever isn&#8217;t going to be possible, Chris instead explores how differences in our powers of memory and anticipation might lead to a simulated immortality and whether in particular, having a good memory is overrated. The award is funded by the Templeton Foundation and administered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimmortalityproject.com\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.sptimmortalityproject.com');\">Immortality Project<\/a> at the University of California, Riverside. It runs from September 2014, will lead to a couple of papers and a book chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026or the next best thing, a grant to study immortality for six months. A number of philosophers have asked whether it might be good if we could live forever, and have offered diverging verdicts. Assuming living forever isn&#8217;t going to be possible, Chris instead explores how differences in our powers of memory and anticipation might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","tag-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}