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Comment author: jacob_cannell 30 June 2015 11:51:03PM 0 points [-]

That's possible given the sim argument. The eastern idea of reincarnation and the western idea of afterlife map to two main possibilities: in the reincarnation model all that is transferred between worlds is the architectural seed or hyperparameters. In the afterlife model the creator has some additional moral obligation or desire to save and transfer whole minds out.