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Last night when I came home I was coming off a high. I thought last night's show was an amazing show.

Matthew James Bailey is always interesting and when he talks about the ethics of AI and the ethics of AI generated heaven or hell.

I just thought, you know, this would be a barn burner.

It certainly was because I wanted to explore more before I went to bed. And one of the things I thought of as I was

doing my studies before bedtime I I started thinking about natural death.

You can't avoid talking about that when you're talking about the idea of

dying and being preserved in a computer, right?

Or not having to taste death because you're being downloaded into it. preserved in a computer, right?

Or not having to taste that because you're being downloaded

into a compartmentalized case in or an avatar.

And so I got to thinking about the natural aspects, you know, the things that, you know, we as we have grown into adulthood have learned about and have always been told that happens when we die. And since death is one idea that has no

history except that it's an idea. It's not really a reality. I mean it it's a reality that none of us have experienced, okay?

We have not experienced it yet.

And so it's the most frightening idea, but it's a quite simple idea. It's the ultimate unknown. And it's always

haunted me. It haunts human beings whether consciously or unconsciously.

Some people put in the back of their head, they don't think about it, or they're not afraid of it.

Because they say, well, I know where I'm going, I know what's going on, I know what my God has in store for me.

But the thing about death is that

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