Catphish
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I have no idea why this thought is in my head...
but nonetheless, it's in there, and I have single-handedly (brainedly?), singularly, non-plussed myself.
That is to say, I'm stumped. I can't chose. Or at least, I haven't chosen yet. You try.
Option 1: Your life continues as is, same as it ever was.
Option 2: You can be truly free, in that you can go anywhere --anywhere-- at any speed, see and hear anything you wish, at any location you desire, anywhere in the entire Universe, but... you're disembodied. So no touch, no taste, no smell.
(Yes, we can argue about the right to any sensory function if you're disembodied, but let's not.)
So it's like, a 1:1 Universe Sim in VR with infinite resolution and really good sound. Except that it's the real Universe, not a sim, and it's your actual disembodied being (soul?), and not a digital device.
The catch is: if you chose option 2, your earthly body goes comatose --that's it. lights out-- and remains that way until its final passing, whenever and however that may arrive. Never to return. So you don't get to share what you've discovered. Your knowledge dies with you.
Further, the passage of time in your free state is equivalent to your comatose state.
And when the body dies, so does the journey.
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Since I'm a father, and have a teenage child depending on me, I think I'd put it off a decade or two. But hooboy. That's some tempting shit.
Howboutchoo?
(I'm probably a dork for spending this much time on this, but I won't be sad. This is just how it works out sometimes.)
but nonetheless, it's in there, and I have single-handedly (brainedly?), singularly, non-plussed myself.
That is to say, I'm stumped. I can't chose. Or at least, I haven't chosen yet. You try.
Option 1: Your life continues as is, same as it ever was.
Option 2: You can be truly free, in that you can go anywhere --anywhere-- at any speed, see and hear anything you wish, at any location you desire, anywhere in the entire Universe, but... you're disembodied. So no touch, no taste, no smell.
(Yes, we can argue about the right to any sensory function if you're disembodied, but let's not.)
So it's like, a 1:1 Universe Sim in VR with infinite resolution and really good sound. Except that it's the real Universe, not a sim, and it's your actual disembodied being (soul?), and not a digital device.
The catch is: if you chose option 2, your earthly body goes comatose --that's it. lights out-- and remains that way until its final passing, whenever and however that may arrive. Never to return. So you don't get to share what you've discovered. Your knowledge dies with you.
Further, the passage of time in your free state is equivalent to your comatose state.
And when the body dies, so does the journey.
---
Since I'm a father, and have a teenage child depending on me, I think I'd put it off a decade or two. But hooboy. That's some tempting shit.
Howboutchoo?
(I'm probably a dork for spending this much time on this, but I won't be sad. This is just how it works out sometimes.)
