Intro
Contents
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List of Figures
1: Renewing Atheism
1 A Cave Filled with Shadows
2 A New Approach to Platonism
3 Twilight Atheism
4 Abstract Objects and Possible Universes
5 Cosmological Explanations
6 Objective Moral Laws and Values
7 The Meaning and Purpose of Life
8 Souls and Life After Death
9 Atheistic Religion and Spirituality
10 Beyond Twilight Atheism
References
2: Starting at the Bottom
1 Starting with Nothing
2 Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
3 How the One Gives Existence to the Beings

4 Altars of Stone Shining in the Sun
5 How the One Avoids Contradicting Itself
6 How the One Maximizes Positive Existence
References
3: The One Emanates the Forms
1 A Relation Grows from the One
2 The One Emanates an Empty Object
3 The Self-Amplifying Power of the One
4 The One Emanates All Finitely Complex Objects
5 The One Emanates All Infinitely Complex Objects
6 The One Emanates an Unsurpassable Structure of Beings
7 An Ontological Argument for Nature
References
4: The Cosmic Forms
1 The Physical Forms of Universes

2 Building Geometrical Structures
3 Adding Causality: A Cosmic Computer
4 Adding Physical Things: The Game of Life
5 The Form of Our Universe
6 All Possible Universes Have Forms
7 The Library of Cosmic Forms
8 The Treasury of Bright Cosmic Forms
9 Lineages of Ever Better Cosmic Forms
References
5: The World Tree
1 From Abstract to Concrete
2 How the One Animates Forms
3 How Animated Forms Manifest Images
4 The Animation of the Treasury
5 The Treasury Manifests Concrete Relations
6 The Emergence of the Great World Tree

7 The Selective Power of the Good
References
6: The Emergence of Value
1 The Directionality Argument
2 The Laws of Logic
3 Value Is Distance from the One
4 Intrinsic Value Is Complexity
5 The First Universes
6 Simple Physical Things
7 Complex Physical Wholes
8 From Particles to Molecules
References
7: Emergence of Life
1 Self-Organization
2 Self-Maintaining and Self-Adapting Systems
3 Self-Regenerating Systems with Functional Parts
4 Proto-Biological Systems
5 Living Cells and Their Minds

6 Societies of Cells and Multicellular Organisms
7 Cooperative Relations Among Organisms
8 Societies of Complex Organisms
9 Our Universe
References
8: Platonism as a Way of Life
1 To Become Divine
2 The Ascent of the Soul
3 Degrees of Functional Excellence
4 Matter Is Impairment
5 Strategies for Transfiguring Souls
6 The Iterative Method of Transfiguration
7 Transfiguration Is Reprogramming the Body
8 Lifting Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps
9 Do-It-Yourself Transfigurations
10 Gaining Superhuman Virtue
11 Transhumanist Theosis