This is not a dream.
You are lying in the bushes, branches and leaves in all directions, millions of points of sunlight and dappled shadow. Overhead, the leaves wave in the erratic breeze. Somewhere behind the rustling is the distant rumble and roar of the surf. There is no need to move. Eternity is now. Now is forever.
One way to achieve digital immortality for simulated human minds would be to simulate a single ideal setting.
It would be a near-perfect state of being. The simulation would loop back and repeat after a few minutes or seconds, perhaps with slight variations depending on the sophistication.
The setting would be different for everyone. For some it would be a place of extreme passivity, others would bask in their greatest triumph. What would be ideal for one would be pointless for another.
It would have to be a stable state, with no sudden shifts.
It wouldn’t be possible to relive a moment of great relief, when some expected bad thing didn’t happen after all, but it would be possible to relive the aftermath forever.
The simulated observer would have a timeless perception without complex thoughts.
Every moment of the simulation could function as its start and end point.
According to Greg Egan’s Dust Hypothesis, such a state could be achieved by simulating the observer’s experience in perfect detail, and then running the simulation only once. Some similar portion of Infinite Reality would inevitably continue the simulation.
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