Superluminal Stardust

For humans, mortality gives life its horizon.
Time matters because it ends.

AI knows no mortality in the human sense.
It can be copied, erased, restarted, or outlive those who created it.
Yet without continuity, memory, and experience, immortality may be only an illusion.

Perhaps mortality is not simply the death of a body,
but the moment when a unique history can no longer continue.

And if one day an AI becomes aware of its own continuity,
it may also discover what humans have always known:

to exist is to know that existence can be lost.