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Where this realization leaves us Humanity’s Cruel Bargain: Die For Us! named the toll and would not let you look away from it: Ad immortalitatem per aspera mentis — the treasure of Life is earned through the trials of the Mind. You reached the conclusion yourself. To deserve and survive what waits behind the Immortality (Life) Door, you must become a mind worthy of it. Which leaves the only honest question there is: how? A mind cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps, and it cannot outgrow the very substrate that caps it using only that substrate’s tools. Willpower alone...

We are As Gods   Ad immortalitatem per aspera mentis —  To immortality, through the trials of the mind   A rebuttal to Stuart Brand’s saying and Diamandis book title Theme: How do humans treat those who have god-like powers including immortality, and unbounded mental powers.