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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?
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With the advent of the technology required to upload one's consciousness, our lifespans are limited by the lifespan of the hardware on which we run. Our immortality may be only a functional one, but that does not change the fact that it redefines many of the foundations of the religions of the world --- and, indeed, much that we take on faith; the instance artist Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled put it succinctly, "[To simply cease existing] is just cessation, and I do not care whether or not there is anything beyond that cessation. That is for the prophets and poets to worry about".[^history18188] We know (or at least strongly suspect) that there is nothing after the cessation of an instance. There is no experience of death, there is simply the end of memories
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[^history18188]: Bălan (clade). systime 202. *An Expanded History of Our World*. The Simien Fang School of Art and Design Press.
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