Building a mindfile.
The actual daily practice: uploading video, writing, photographs and questionnaire answers into a personal archive, continuously, for decades, against the possibility of later reinstantiation.
The mindfile is the daily discipline and the closest thing Terasem has to a devotional practice: video diaries, photographs, writing, and long personality questionnaires, uploaded into a personal archive and added to continuously over a lifetime. The theory is that a sufficiently dense record of how a person responds to things constitutes the pattern that makes them who they are, and could later be run on adequate hardware. What is striking about it as a rite is its duration — it asks not for an hour a week but for decades of consistent self-documentation, which is a heavier ongoing demand than most religions on this site make of anyone. The scientific status of the underlying claim is unestablished, and Terasem's own materials present the archive as insurance rather than as a guarantee.
The same ground, other faiths
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