With the dissolution of atoms and molecules, the very scaffolding of life and most structure in the cosmos will have crumbled. So if life has made it this far, will it now hit the final wall? Perhaps. But, perhaps too, over the timescales we’re considering—more than a billion billion billion times the current age of the universe—life will have evolved into a form that has long discarded any need for the biological architecture it currently requires. Perhaps the very categories of life and mind will be rendered coarse and clumsy by future incarnations that require new characterizations
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