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Comment author: MugaSofer 15 December 2012 03:10:52PM 0 points [-]

Well, it's not as bad as it sounds, anyway. It's forced relocation, not murder-murder.

As I said, that's debatable; most humans historically believed that's what "death" consisted of, after all.

That's not to say it's wrong. Just debatable.

Modern Judaism is very vague about the afterlife - the declassified material just mumbles something to the effect of "after the Singularity hits, the righteous will be thawed and live in transhuman utopia", and the advanced manual can't decide if it likes reincarnation or not.

Eh?

Do we have sources from back when?

Google "sheol". It's usually translated as "hell" or "the grave" these days, to give the impression of continuity.

Comment author: MixedNuts 15 December 2012 03:44:40PM 2 points [-]

There's something to be said against equating transhumanism with religious concepts, but the world to come is an exact parallel.

I don't know much about Kabbalah because I'm worried it'll fry my brain, but Gilgul is a thing.

I always interpreted sheol as just the literal grave, but apparently it refers to an actual world. Thanks.

Comment author: MugaSofer 15 December 2012 03:55:07PM 0 points [-]

There's something to be said against equating transhumanism with religious concepts, but the world to come is an exact parallel.

Well, it is if you expect SAIs to be able to reconstruct anyone, anyway. But thanks for clarifying.

I don't know much about Kabbalah because I'm worried it'll fry my brain, but Gilgul is a thing.

Huh. You learn something new every day.

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