
If
Computers evolve, become conscious, coalesce to a single Great Computer
And if
that great computer recreates digitally all of history
And if
within that recreation, each one of us has a virtual existence, indistinguishable from our previous organic/material existenceThen...
Here is a story to set the scene, and pages of discussion around the physics, ethics and final outcome of such a scenario

MAURICE LEE
JOURNAL OF A
SEA-VOYAGE
NEW ZEALAND TO LONDON 1949-50
Working as a steward on the liner SS Rangitata, from New Zealand to the UK via Panama Canal in 1949

The Private Diary of Lawrence Lee for 1931
....and on through to 1939
Growing up a catholic in Auckland, New Zealand, before the 2nd World War

Yes ALL of them and your countless billions of cousins, alive today and deep back in time to the beginning of life on earth


