#PennedPossibilities 1161: Do you have any mythology around the afterlife in your universe?
Current WIP is a far future interstellar setting, where there is no true AI, no brain upload simulation afterlife, and no singularity.
Nevertheless there are a plethora of religions who believe in all of the above *and* in manifest destiny and the day of superintelligent-AI-mandated resurrection. Basically imagine TESCREAL as the equivalent of 1st century Christianity. There are a LOT of holy wars …
Charlie Stross
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