• Infynis
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    1 year ago

    If we actually had this ability, our lives would be crazy. You can just beam yourself an entire lifetime as your D&D character, or in your favorite video game or novels. And then just be back.

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      1 year ago

      Not learn multiple skill sets/languages, develop hobbies, and find inner peace. Kept strictly to good the stuff. I like where your head’s at.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Alistair Reynolds goes into this in the Revelation Space universe. It’s a mechanism that triggers when you’re dying so you can live a whole second life in the interval between body death and brain death.