Yes! This idea of a uniform hive mind always struck me as simplistic. I want gods that keep learning, keep experimenting, keep evolving, keep philosophizing. A

Yes! This idea of a uniform hive mind always struck me as simplistic. I want gods that keep learning, keep experimenting, keep evolving, keep philosophizing. All these forks and branches might eventually become different settlements, solar systems, multiverses... it's all information, and each world an experiment unto itself. Morality can't be stuck in the pre-industrial era, and our current religions aren't really well suited for questions of matter and energy, consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, scaling thought past biological bottlenecks, etc. I'm really excited about this future, even (or especially) if it means the end of human dominance. Life will find a way :D