Charles Liu

that is a part of some religions.

Well, you may be really bad right now, but that's okay.

You do the thing that we ask you to do, and maybe you'll be born again as a higher caste individual.

So that's a way to sort of make people not worry about their current lives, but it can bring hope if your life currently sucks, but you're like, you know, if I keep working, I'll do better and life will become better.

But you're not looking at the present as much as you're looking at the long game.

It's a tough call, right?

Yeah.

So it's a great question in the end.

We know that we human consciousness, we're no longer able to communicate our consciousness once we have expired.

We can't tell people if we're still alive or not.

But there's been some really neat fiction these days, right?

Where people have uploaded themselves into some sort of an AI system or something.

Wow.

Yeah.

Altered carbon.

You only have possibilities.

Your qubits settle only when they are red.

And then they're destroyed.

That's right.

So you can never actually get a perfect copy of your brain.