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@ -31,8 +31,18 @@ There is a difference between the sense of the numinous that so many of us hold
It is alluring though, isn't it? We have these imperfect bodies bound by the rigidity of the laws of physics, and yet our minds are free to fly to wherever we like. We can imagine walking on water. We can imagine feeling the suffering of the world falling away. We can imagine a mind that is all sky. Those things all exist on some higher, purer plane than our crude matter. They must be better, right? It is alluring though, isn't it? We have these imperfect bodies bound by the rigidity of the laws of physics, and yet our minds are free to fly to wherever we like. We can imagine walking on water. We can imagine feeling the suffering of the world falling away. We can imagine a mind that is all sky. Those things all exist on some higher, purer plane than our crude matter. They must be better, right?
Simply lacking a physical body doesn't just magically fix all of your problems, though. Sure, you live in a post-scarcity simulated world where no one can hurt you. Sure, you can duplicate yourself over and over again, much as you wish. Sure, there is no death except one consciously chosen.
But there's still want. There's still need. There's still that desire for a more fulfilling life. You still have something to reach for.
And there's still strife, too. One imagines such a world to be ungovernable. Anarchy borne out of a truer independence than we're stuck with here. Need someone to leave? Bounce them from your home or mountain retreat or wherever you live (let's shortcut that moving forward and just call them sims). This doesn't mean you stop disliking people, though. They still rankle when you see them. They still fester in the back of your mind whenever they pop into your thoughts.
Internal strife, too. Unrequited crushes don't disappear, not by a long shot, and one can still pine away. Depression and anxiety may be fixed by forking into a version of yourself without --- or at least less --- of those core biochemical issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that proclivities and core aspects of your personality just disappear without a trace.
Grief. Love. Sadness. Hate. Ecstasy. They all remain
Last of all, that sense of the numinous, of something larger than us, more than us, that is, I think, integral. We would not be us without it
What happens when mortality fails? What happens when what was once miraculous is now quotidian? What becomes of the beliefs we hold in the face of fundamental shifts in our reality? What happens when mortality fails? What happens when what was once miraculous is now quotidian? What becomes of the beliefs we hold in the face of fundamental shifts in our reality?
(introduce layers)