Digital immortality will play out differently across cultures. Ancestor worship - really more ancestor veneration - remains a big deal in China, where the ance

Digital immortality will play out differently across cultures. Ancestor worship - really more ancestor veneration - remains a big deal in China, where the ancestors kind of remain in the family in perpetuity, more akin to having gone to a different room in house, rather than entering into a paradise as in the Abrahamic traditions. I think Chinese will embrace AI avatars of the deceased without too much angst, whereas this would be a blasphemous in the Western tradition