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Are the stories in this image the plot fundamental? Excerpt from important part:
"...But to become truly IMMORTAL, you have to transfer the most precious thing you have (your identity) out of your body and into the realm of IDEAS.
In short: you have to create a story about yourself that's so compelling that it's carried virally in the mind of humanity forever, replicating your essence infinitely throughout the generations.
While your flesh is temporary, your legend can carry on forever. Genetic duplication is a dying man's game, contingent on the shelf-life of meat, but memetic chrono-travel is playing the long odds.
REALITY is divided into only two properties: Physical atoms, and Stories. Stories are just as real as physical reality, but they exist in a separate realm.
This is why your mind is so important– it's your one link to this world. The PHYSICAL WORLD creates and spreads stories, but the STORY WORLD controls the motives and thoughts of the Physical World.
In this way, the two create each other. REALITY creates FICTION which in turn creates REALITY."
"...But to become truly IMMORTAL, you have to transfer the most precious thing you have (your identity) out of your body and into the realm of IDEAS.
In short: you have to create a story about yourself that's so compelling that it's carried virally in the mind of humanity forever, replicating your essence infinitely throughout the generations.
While your flesh is temporary, your legend can carry on forever. Genetic duplication is a dying man's game, contingent on the shelf-life of meat, but memetic chrono-travel is playing the long odds.
REALITY is divided into only two properties: Physical atoms, and Stories. Stories are just as real as physical reality, but they exist in a separate realm.
This is why your mind is so important– it's your one link to this world. The PHYSICAL WORLD creates and spreads stories, but the STORY WORLD controls the motives and thoughts of the Physical World.
In this way, the two create each other. REALITY creates FICTION which in turn creates REALITY."
