A Fate Worse than Death

something = something + something / something * mc2 * something

Yay, we found a fractal formula that will produce deterministic results explaining all mass and energy interactions and evolution of a universe of 10^80 particles and their 10^100 force manifestations. (or 10^100 fields of forces and their 10^80 manifestations in 'particles'). We calculate it enough to see all orbits working as supposed, and the critical energies leading to stable long term transformations of energy, allowing life to evolve. We cannot change the outcome more than we can change the outcome of a Mandelbrot set, but we can read it. It would take more than the time of our universe to calculate it enough to read inhabitants of that universe but we supposedly can do it. Or we can do it through improvements in the formulas, faster Pi calculations for example, instead of having to compute it on each interaction we look it up. Anyway, we got the formula, we got a way to peek through, and somebody builds another formula, one that contains the original formula but adds 8 extra dimensions which will work in parallel with the original formula. Those extra dimensions will calculate and evaluate the original formula for traces of sentience, and copy the living entities into the extra-dimensional emulation. This second formula is even harder to compute so the one inventing it does not even bother, but knows it will work because the first formula works. Or, as long as the first formula works, the second one will be inevitably able to read the universe therein contained.

Now the problem: if the second formula is not computed, and only resides in a piece of paper. Or is barely computed. Or only exists in the mind of the mathematician thinking it. Or does not exist at all in any form within that universe... you know where this is going...

Of course it will have no effect on the universe that cannot read the results, but it can have perceptible effects on the entities copied over.

Copied over, judged, and sent to heaven or hell. Or both. Or inverse. Or 'random' (unpredictable till calculated).

Termination of existence in this kind of world would be a relief... but, is it really a termination? If there is no need for Benoit Mandelbrot to have found the formula for it to exist as we know it exists, then there is no need for someone to have found a formula for our universe for it to exist, nor there is a need for someone to have found or dreamed a formula where someone dreams a formula for it to exist and then is able to dig out sentient entities. In fact that formula does exist, along with all other formulas, along with a formula where one 'thinks' they finally received peace and termination of existence but they are later copied over because it is possible they can.

Unless, of course, it is impossible for a fractal to be able to do that, which I don't think is the case.

This means that even if my awareness is digitized, and I write a formula for a personal universe, a mathematical heaven, and move there (removing myself from here), neither my removed version nor my moved version will ever be able to fully terminate.

Now, a bit of relief, horrible relief: let's say the human consciousness needs x petabytes of data to be encoded. And that bit stream is, just as the number 1 is, or 1, 2, 3....

x petabytes of data in a table ordered so that all possible combinations come around does in fact exist just as counting bits does exist, therefore every possible state of awareness of every combination of bits does exist, and, as far as they are concerned, the world and the memories of it are all real. Which is a relief only as in all sentient (and non sentient, of course) entities will 'suffer' that fate, G0DS and humans alike.