When listening to futurists you will stumble upon the concept of a so-called dyson sphere.
A sun encompassing megastructure, where all the sun's energy is used to power a civilization.
Playing this game a bit further would mean, such a civilization most likely will end up as a digital one.
Harvesting a stars energy to emulate many billions of worlds (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain).
If just a tiny fractions of this enormous energy would be used to re-emulate our life, it could be quite likely,
that at some point this structure would end up with an entity, that would feel like you and have the same story to tell.
In such a case, would it not be possible to die in this presence, only to become reborn right after that many centuries later in such a virtual world?
Depending on the amount of such simulations, a lot of variations could be possible as well.
Whether this is still you however, is a debate people had thousands of years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)
Although I personally don't think, reincarnation is real (or any other such fairytale), it still is an interesting
thought experiment.
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