Computer processes are portable. Simulators may be able to transfer simulated brain processes from one simulated world to another (heaven?), or even connect them to a body in the simulators’ own world (reincarnation?). Perhaps that will happen in some simulations, especially in personal entertainment simulations, and perhaps for truly exceptional beings in batch simulations. Doing this routinely for most simulations would come with many costs, however. If those costs are prohibitive, we shouldn’t hope for a simulation afterlife. On the other hand, perhaps ethics review panels for simulators
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