It could be argued that advances today are already taking meaning out of our lives (thus for some people utopia is already getting too far). One example of this is teenagers that suffer more from depression but less from other diseases. This post also reminded me of a blog post by philosopher Mike Huemer in which he argues that the best afterlife is reincarnation https://fakenous.net/?p=2491
3. Reincarnation > Heaven
What might God do instead?
It would make more sense for a god to send us back into the world, to live this sort of existence again. Each life involves meaningful struggles in the face of adversity, the exercise of free will, and the opportunity to exhibit virtue. It never gets old, because we forget everything at the end of each lifetime. It can go on for eternity in that way.
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It could be argued that advances today are already taking meaning out of our lives (thus for some people utopia is already getting too far). One example of this is teenagers that suffer more from depression but less from other diseases. This post also reminded me of a blog post by philosopher Mike Huemer in which he argues that the best afterlife is reincarnation https://fakenous.net/?p=2491
You might be interested in my effort to characterise utopia.