That seems like a powerful vision, actually outside the realm of possibility because of its contradictions of how humans function emotionally, but seductive nonetheless, literally, a heaven on Earth.
I don’t see how you get past limitations of essential identity or physical continuity in order to guarantee a life that allows hopes and dreams without a life that includes worry or loss, but it could involve incomplete experience (for example, the satisfaction of seeing someone happy even though you haven’t actually seen them), deceptive experience (for example, an illusion that makes sad people look happy to you), or virtual experience (you exist in a solo world, a virtual construction where nothing exists except you and the AI that creates your experience of a solipsistic world with happy, worry-free people). Those all have some appeal to me, I confess.
That seems like a powerful vision, actually outside the realm of possibility because of its contradictions of how humans function emotionally, but seductive nonetheless, literally, a heaven on Earth.
I don’t see how you get past limitations of essential identity or physical continuity in order to guarantee a life that allows hopes and dreams without a life that includes worry or loss, but it could involve incomplete experience (for example, the satisfaction of seeing someone happy even though you haven’t actually seen them), deceptive experience (for example, an illusion that makes sad people look happy to you), or virtual experience (you exist in a solo world, a virtual construction where nothing exists except you and the AI that creates your experience of a solipsistic world with happy, worry-free people). Those all have some appeal to me, I confess.