Regarding blended/borderless minds losing identity, I don’t think this will necessarily eliminate the fear of death, or mean that death isn’t still happening: I’ve partaken in an egregore that feared its own dissolution more than I typically feared my own (albiet, that is not very much). The fracturing of groups can be quite a sad thing. I do think that a time will come (though, yes, probably a fair bit after we become post-human, quite a while, in subjective time) when death becomes more of a… re-arranging of parts, but it will still be the end of something. The admission that continuing this project could no longer be justified, yielding to the cries of the unborn.
(By the way, dear Richard, we’re planning a session of our podcast called The Steelman, about Death. It might be nice to have you along? I don’t know. The cryopets guy is on board for it, but hasn’t given a date. Must be busy.)
Regarding blended/borderless minds losing identity, I don’t think this will necessarily eliminate the fear of death, or mean that death isn’t still happening: I’ve partaken in an egregore that feared its own dissolution more than I typically feared my own (albiet, that is not very much). The fracturing of groups can be quite a sad thing. I do think that a time will come (though, yes, probably a fair bit after we become post-human, quite a while, in subjective time) when death becomes more of a… re-arranging of parts, but it will still be the end of something. The admission that continuing this project could no longer be justified, yielding to the cries of the unborn.
(By the way, dear Richard, we’re planning a session of our podcast called The Steelman, about Death. It might be nice to have you along? I don’t know. The cryopets guy is on board for it, but hasn’t given a date. Must be busy.)