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If she is choosing to spontaneously give up these life goals, relationships, and love, perhaps she is not experiencing them fully. I understand that posthuman life isn't necessarily a bed of roses, but at the point that you are able to create these new realities at will, shouldn't we also expect these new realities to be pretty good? At least good enough that we won't feel any need to abandon everything and start anew very often. Of course, it might be that the human brain needs a refresh every century or so, so I won't take any bets against never wanting it.
Well, creating new realities at will and switching between them is an example of Hub World. And I expect that would indeed be the first thing the new posthumans would go for. But this type of existence is stripped from many restrictions, which in a way make life interesting and give it structure. So I expect some of the posthumans (amongst them - me in the future) to create curated copies of themselves, which would gather entirely new experiences, like Waker's subjectivity. (it's experiences would be reported to some top-level copy)
You see, a Waker doesn't consider waking abandoning everything, the way we do. She doesn't feel abandonment, the same way we don't feel we have abandoned everything and everyone in the dream. She has the perfect awareness of current world and a world to be feeling exactly as real.
One other way to state it - staying in a one reality forever is for a Waker feels like (to us) staying in a dream and never waking up to experience the actual reality.