Firewood Dusk

The moment you connect your consciousness to the web, are you still you? If memory can be copied perfectly, is there a technological gap between "remembering" and "experiencing", or is it the essence of existence? If you still remember that you love your wife, but you can no longer feel that love - if emotions can be repaired but cannot be restored, is the repaired "love" healing, or is it a more cruel fake? When the conversion rate of neural signals reaches 99.7%, What is lost in the 0.3% Loss is noise or soul? If immortality means being remembered, then do those who choose to be forgotten gain true freedom? A civilization can sell its soul in order to survive, but who will prove it - the one who survives is "us"? When all mankind upgrades themselves to gods, is the only mortal who has not upgraded the last night watchman, or the biggest bug in the history of civilization evolution? If "Dusk" has calculated all probabilities, then the only thing it cannot calculate - the flesh-and-blood body holding the black box, suffering from pain, death and hesitation - is it a fish that has slipped through the net of physical rules, or is it an observation window that it deliberately left? Twelve scientists sealed the exit and died calmly. If death itself becomes the final rebellion, then do those who reject immortality prove that "human beings" once existed? When a mechanical god has ruled the solar system for seventy years, a mortal who refuses to become a god declares war on it - is he challenging the authority of gods, or the final qualification of all mankind to choose their own destiny?