[Vecr]

I'm not sure when this was written, but any new developments in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and/or spacetime theories since then don't change the result. Minds can't be rescued from the past or from "ashes"/decay products.

[_dain_]

Like I said, it's theology/eschatology, not necessarily the way things really are in that world. I don't want to spoil much further.