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<p>and, of course, did the same with the music?</p>
<p>I was a sucker for it all. Anything I could do to find a lynchpin upon which to hang an idea, so that I could just sit back and watch it play out like some magnificent pitch-drop experiment.</p>
<p>The same wound up playing out in my writing when I moved my focus to words. What if I wrote a memoir as a conversation between myself and a mirror image of myself? What if I used the strict form of the romance caduceus but made the character who&rsquo;s in love not actually want to be in love?</p>
<p>And, most critically for this exercise, what if I set up a fantastical world of uploaded consciousnesses? One where you could duplicate yourself, as many as you want. As long as anything can be consensually imagined, it&rsquo;s possible; what does that do for miracles? Does functional immortality change one&rsquo;s thoughts on the afterlife?</p>
<p>And, most critically for this exercise, what if I set up a fantastical world of uploaded consciousnesses? One where you could duplicate yourself as many as you want. Want to let that duplicate quit as soon as the task is finished? Fine! Want to let them stick around and diverge into someone new and yet also still you? Great! And hey, as long as anything can be consensually imagined, it&rsquo;s possible; what does that do for miracles? Does functional immortality change one&rsquo;s thoughts on the afterlife?</p>
<p>I imagine so.</p>
<p>The world itself becomes a frame in which the art is hung, it becomes that lynchpin. The &lsquo;post-self age&rsquo;, one of the characters calls it, asking all sorts of similar questions: <em>&ldquo;What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you have split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>So, here is our framing device: founded in 2115 CE, the construct containing uploaded personalities commonly known as the System has exploded in population to an estimated twenty-seven billion individuals with countless more instances forked from those core identities. A world that is stable, beyond scarcity, and beyond even death, appeals to a great many people, and through incentives provided by political entities phys-side, transition from physical to uploaded life has been made as smooth as possible. </p>
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<p>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?</p>
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