From a510235fea70e05f7e4c5da8311f4e2cb6b0e2b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:32:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/intro.md | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/intro.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/intro.md index 6868fab7..50fe5590 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/intro.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/intro.md @@ -35,7 +35,4 @@ It is alluring though, isn't it? We have these imperfect bodies bound by the rig 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? -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 - -[^history18188]: Bălan (clade). systime 202. *An Expanded History of Our World*. The Simien Fang School of Art and Design Press.