Status Updates From Schild's Ladder

Existential representations and meditations on continuity and preservation of identity over millennia and the nature of human souls.

Lots of hand waving quantum physics.

Still really cool, almost 20 years later.

Life had still arisen here, thirty orders of magnitude up the length scale, as heroic and miraculous as some hardy plant on a frozen mountain peak, but all the while, infinitely richer possibilities had been buzzing through the superposition that the dead vacuum concealed.