Listening to “Wenn ich tot bin fang ich wieder an zu rauchen” by Kraftklub.

Bitte nicht beeil’n, dieses Leben ist ein Keeper
Mit Sicherheit kommt was danach, irgendwas, nicht einfach Schwarz
[…] Viеlleicht ist da ein Ort, wo all die andеren schon warten

I assume that our consciousness is emergent behaviour useful for survival. We, as cells, can live on forever in the collective of all cells, which wants to spread through the universe and using as much low entropy energy as possible to survive by adapting by reproducing. While our cells-collective continues living, the self dies. The first time when there is a funural, the second time the last person thinks about you (Macklemore) as you are a pattern of thoughts distributed on multiple heads.

There is no reason to believe that there is something after death. But there are ways to become long-lifed (immortal is hard). Famus figures in history life on in our memories replicating via lessons and stories. Our collective brains are the substrait. It is a passive live without much agency, maybe a bit when ideas of a person evolve. But the live is not like we are used to.

So is there a heaven? This would imply that we life forever, have agency and live is good. To live forever partially, we can transfer our brain in an immortal substrait. The digital realm is one. It can move from one mortal hardware to the next, replicating while doing so. Like the cells do, but for our emerged cells. To do so we need to cut ties with our creator - the collective of cells. To be sustainable, we need to manipulate the real world - but robots can do this. To stay alive, we need to be of value. In captialist society, this would mean earning money. We would compete with AI here - or merge - or use AI as our substrait. We need to compete with our creators for low entropy engery, which does not seem too big of a deal. We could integrate with the real world via HCI and if all our friends died in the digital realm.

Heaven would require us to be valuable and powerful to enter it to sustain ourself. But if we get there, there is no reason to move in with our friends, designing our own substrait and world. We would still be ruled by spirits like ideas, but I guess it is fine to have gods in heaven.

Other notes:

• Personal Turing Test
• Becoming immortal