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Non-Fungible Soul
by Antonio Rocco S. (Rocco Valentini)
Even if we gave it the benefit of the doubt
And said that heaven is real,
It's irrelevant since none of us will personally go there.
Human consciousness is a non-fungible,
Machine-bound software.
Once the body is gone, so is the ego.
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Replication is not transition;
It's replacement.
A spirit in the afterlife
Or an AI in a computer
Would be a clone,
And that clone would represent a new "I."
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The entity being uploaded to heaven by God
Or to the cloud by a programmer
Is not you
Because you are defined by your choices
And by your agency,
Not by your experience or data.
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You are working towards someone else's salvation.
You do not go to heaven.
A copy of you goes to heaven.
A gallery full of copies is not a museum - it’s a mausoleum.
Exist for the world;
Because the world is the only place you'll ever exist.
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It is better to die with authorship
Than to surrender your legacy to a ghostwriter.
When your pen runs out of ink, your book closes.
Perhaps that's what banishment from heaven is;
A closed book.
Perhaps damnation simply means deletion of consciousness.
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Perhaps the Luciferian position is the humanist position;
A final assertion of selfhood.
Maybe hell is for the virtuous.
Footnote: 01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 is binary code for Life.