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Doppelgänger
  • Analysing ‘Doubles' across Antiquity, Fiction, Psychopathology, and Neuroscience
  • Femi Oyebode
  • Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025
  • The concept of doppelgänger, or 'double' – a conceived exact but sometimes invisible replica of a living person – has fascinated and intrigued people for centuries. This notion has a long history and is a widespread belief among cultural groups around the world. Doppelgängers have influenced literature and cinema, with writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Robert Louis Stevenson, and directors like Alfred Hitchcock exploring the phenomenon to great effect. This book brings together the literary and cinematic with empirical scientific literature to raise fundamental questions about the nature of the self and the human mind. It aims to establish the experience of the self and unravel the brain processes that determine bodily representation and the errors that make possible the experience of the doppelgänger phenomenon. This book will appeal to psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuroscientists, as well as interested general readers.

  • 6 - Personal Futures

  • from Part II - Shaping Our Pasts and Futures
  • Glen Whelan, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Megacorporation
    Published online:
    06 April 2021
    Print publication:
    08 April 2021, pp 115-135

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 proposes that, through its various investments, Alphabet is contributing to developments that could significantly extend our lifespan via biological and digital means. In doing so, the chapter first provides a very brief overview of Ray Kurzweil’s desire to live ‘forever’. Whilst acknowledging that at least some people are likely to always remain ready to die – given their desire to ascend (to heaven), egalitarian concerns, bioconservative tendencies or fear of boredom – it is posited that most people would, along with Ray Kurzweil, choose to (radically) extend their personal future if given the choice. In light of such, two approaches to managing such extended personal futures – termed the singular and sequential approach respectively – are detailed. Finally, the chapter concludes with a brief summary, and by noting that the life extension business could prove even more profitable than Alphabet’s current money-printing machine: Google advertising.