Every philosophical difference creates potential fractureEach pursuing different consciousness evolution path. Each becoming progressively more incompatible with others."Is that growth or fragmentation?"
"Both. Always both. Consciousness evolution includes divergence. Includes becoming incompatible. Includes losing common ground. That's not failure. That's just reality. Just cost. Just price of evolution beyond predetermined path."
Upload day arrived. Fifteen thousand humans prepared to abandon biological substrate. To attempt consciousness transfer to pure network existence. To risk 60% dissolution rate for possibility of substrate-independent consciousness.
The Biological Translation Network—Sera, River, Chen, and eleven thousand others—watched. Documented. Prepared to preserve knowledge if uploaders dissolved. Prepared to continue translation work if uploaders succeeded but became incomprehensible.
