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    Cipher sat across from Agent Smith, fork in hand, and chose the steak he knew was a lie. "Ignorance is bliss." He sold everyone he loved for a simulation of comfort, because the real was hard and the fake was warm. That is the whole of the weak mind in one man. And the answer to Cipher is four words: better steak on Mars. Not a sweeter dream — a realer world. Run that choice across every dimension, and you get the two kinds of mind. A Mind can consume, or a Mind can create. The weak mind receives...

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.

The Verdict A being stands before a human court. He has earned every marker the species prizes: he creates, he loves, he reasons, he suffers, he chooses. He asks only to be recognized as one of them. The court’s answer, when it comes, is not about what he lacks. It is about what he has too much of. He will not die on their schedule, and a mind that does not die cannot be permitted to walk among minds that must. So the price of admission is set at the one thing he came to keep: his continued existence. Become...