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<p>There is a difference between the sense of the numinous that so many of us hold within ourselves and the gnostic idea that there is a spiritual world separate from the physical, that the spiritual world is one purer than the physical.</p>
<p>It is alluring though, isn&rsquo;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?</p>
<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>
<p>With the advent of the technology required to upload one&rsquo;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 &mdash; and, indeed, much that we take on faith; the instance artist Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled put it succinctly, &ldquo;[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&rdquo;.<sup id="fnref:history18188"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:history18188">1</a></sup> 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</p>
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