Heaven and Hell: Possible in theory?

Monday 25 September 2023

Contemplating fiction and virtual reality, this occurred to me: Heaven doesn’t have to be eternal. One day is sufficient. After the first blissful day passes, the individual in question only needs to be deleted during sleep (after a pleasant dream, perhaps?).

Another point I previously considered is that Heaven actually can’t be be eternal. People would need to be altered in such a way that they won’t go mad from boredom (for instance, by regularly modifying their memories) and would also need to be modified so that they can never do harm (because otherwise, Heaven wouldn’t be heavenly anymore). What remains then is no longer human. What is something with a fake memories and no free will? A robot?

But isn’t our memory already completely unreliable? And do we not already lack free will? The only difference is that we can do harm...