[JadeNB]

> Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about? Mathematics!

plushpuffin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132468) mentions Greg Egan's Permutation city, and this sort of question is one of his main themes. In Diaspora, Egan explores many other possible answers; my favourite of the possible answers there, and I suspect also his, is that eventually one would occupy oneself with mathematics in such a place.

[JadeNB]

Apologies for incorrectly including "Mathematics!" in the quote; it was meant to be the first line of my answer, but I only noticed my formatting error after the edit window had closed. The post should have read:

> Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?

Mathematics!

plushpuffin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132468) mentions Greg Egan's Permutation City, and this sort of question is one of his main themes. In Diaspora, Egan explores many other possible answers; my favourite of the possible answers there, and I suspect also his, is that eventually one would occupy oneself with mathematics in such a place.

[Dudeman112]

Mr Egan would be a little biased with that answer :)