Todas las muertes

There is no single definition of death, not a single interpretation, although there is a common thread based on our scientific understanding of mortal reality. It could be said that there is not one, but many deaths. The physicist, biologist and ICREA researcher Ricard Solé offers us an approach to some of these extinctions: from the thermal death of the universe and inanimate systems to that of cities and civilizations, the oceans or robots, passing through that of our own body and mind. Because writing and reflecting on the end of life allows us to better understand the nature of that basic and inevitable beginning, which has shaped our culture and molded our fears ever since consciousness and our ability to imagine the future arose.Collecting the legacy of those who, from literature, cinema, theater, philosophy or science, have written about death, All deaths uses a scientific, critical and open look to rethink the various scenarios in which we can talk of death in strict terms. This exploration allows us to offer some answers and new contributions on essential questions about the existence of immortality, about the possibility of avoiding death, about how the idea of a finite human life arises and evolves, about whether a conscious machine can be eternal or about if we can manipulate the cell rules to prevent our demise.