A little fiction on related topics: "Hell Is Forever" by Alfred Bester-- what if your dearest wish ts to create universes?You're given a pocket universe to live in forever, and that's when you find out that your subconscious keeps leaking into your creations (they're on the object level, not the natural law level), and you don't like your subconscious.

Saturn's Children by Charles Stross. The human race is gone. All that's left is robots, who were built to be imprinted on humans. The vast majority of robots are horrified at the idea of recreating humans.