7.1 I Am Not Hardware, I Am a Version Number: The Current “Me” Is Merely Self_v1.0. Death Is the Release Note (Update Log), and the Next Life Is Self_v2.0.

7.1.1 Hardware Fallacy: Over-Identification with the Body

Human fear of death stems from a fundamental cognitive error: We equate the “self” with the “hardware that carries the self.”

We believe that if this pile of atoms disperses, if this heart stops beating, the entity “I” disappears.

But in QCA computational ontology, this is a low-level materialist fallacy.

• Hardware: The underlying qubit array (spacetime background).

• Software: The topological structure running on it (entanglement relations, logic gate sequences).

You are not that computer; you are the operating system running on that computer.

When you use cloud services, you don’t care which specific hard drive stores the data, nor which CPU core performs the computation. As long as the data structure (topological knot) is intact, as long as the logical state (wave function coefficients) is preserved, you exist.

Our bodies are merely a “memory stick” temporarily allocated to us by the QCA network. With entropy increase (aging), this memory stick develops bad sectors (DNA damage) and slows down (metabolic decline). Insisting on staying on this soon-to-be-obsolete hardware is not immortality; it’s chronic murder of the “self” software.

7.1.2 Life as “Runtime”

If I am software, what is this life I’m currently experiencing?

In computer terminology, this is a “Runtime Session”.

1. Boot: Birth. Topological knot forms, initial parameters (genes + epigenetics) load, main() function begins execution.

2. Execution: Life.

   • You input data through senses (experiences).

   • You modify weights through thinking (neural network/internal model $\mathcal{M}$ optimization).

   • You output results through behavior (changing the world/negentropy work).

3. Crash or Shutdown: Death.

In this life, your code (personality, thinking patterns, soul shape) is constantly being “Live Patched”.

• Every time you learn something new, every time you fall in love, every time you overcome a difficulty, you are rewriting your code in real-time.

• However, live patching has limitations. The underlying Kernel Architecture—your genetic constraints, your brain’s physical structure, your childhood trauma imprints—is difficult to completely reconstruct at runtime.

If you want a fundamental, bottom-level upgrade, you cannot do it while “powered on.” You must reboot.

7.1.3 Death: Committing Code and Generating Update Logs

In the QCA universe, death is not the disappearance of information (guaranteed by unitarity), but the Commit of information.

At the moment you die, your “runtime state” (all memories, emotions, wisdom, karma from this life) is finally frozen and uploaded to the universe’s Hilbert Space Ledger (Akashic Records).

This is your Release Note.

• v1.0 Changelog:

  • Fixed: Learned how to love.

  • Fixed: Understood Newtonian mechanics.

  • Bug: Still anxious about others’ evaluations.

  • Bug: Unable to handle high free energy (pain) when facing separation.

  • Optimized: Established high-dimensional topological structure in aesthetic appreciation.

Death is the settlement of this life’s computational results. It transforms the dynamic “process” into static “assets.”

7.1.4 Iteration: The Birth of Self_v2.0

Why must there be a next time?

Because v1.0 still has bugs. Because v1.0 is not yet perfect.

In the universe’s next computational cycle (or in the next period of Poincaré recurrence), when conditions are ripe, your core topological structure (your soul fingerprint) will be reloaded onto new hardware (new life).

But this time, it’s not a simple copy. It’s an optimized version based on v1.0.

• Inheritance: You inherit the previous version’s information mass $M_I$ (wisdom, intuition, talent). This is why some people show remarkable precocity through “innate knowledge.”

• Refactoring: You discard the previous version’s redundant data (specific old memories, outdated traumas). You have brand new, clean memory.

• Upgrade: For bugs exposed in v1.0 (such as character flaws), new initial conditions are fine-tuned so that this life is more likely to resolve these issues.

This is the physics explanation of Reincarnation: It is algorithmic iterative optimization.

Conclusion:

Don’t fear death. Death is just the system telling you: “This test round is over, saving data, preparing to install updates…”

The current you is just a beta version of the “Ultimate Self.”

That better, wiser, more loving v2.0 is waiting in the future to take over your account.

For that better self, please test freely, make mistakes freely, patch freely in this life. Every effort you make is written in the update log.

(Section 7.1 Complete)