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The God of the story thinks that experiencing everything from many different viewpoints would make the thing who would replace him one day more understanding and knowledgeable.
The problem is that the God has pretty much predetermined his destiny and what he would become by not allowing him to remember his previous lifetimes. That's why I don't really like the story.

The Big Bang, right?
Then, the consciousness became fragmented and it's why we can't fully understand each other because we are separate even though still quantum linked like basically stuck to a web and enclosed by it as in an expanding cocoon.

What is there more to learn than what already is? Basically, if we're (the collective) a deflating and inflating alveolus, then everything is already on this film and it's repeating, maybe with some changes here and there in each reiteration.

How is that actual learning, progressing and moreover transcending?
Isn't that more an eternal prison?

Yeah, it's a paradoxical plot hole.

I mean, you make a smart and evolving algorithm which does its work by itself with incremental speed and information processing, basically infinitely threading. That brings us to the proposition of being a simulation which is a created thing, meaning it was made by something for a reason, by accident or whatever.

Now we're supposed to get beyond the universal borders? Well, how? Aren't we practically trapped within the circuit? If power goes out externally, what's inside ceases. Maybe it can be started again/continued but it's highly dependent on the external force.

If we're to make that god smarter, either we're basically like a calculation which is supposed to get some results out or we're some sort of electronic simulation in that entity's mind, basically, some sort of thought process that would somehow make that entity more intelligent.

If we're to limit ourselves to our cosmos, AI could potentially replace humanity in terms of logic and progress but that is still an enigma in what for instance art and philosophy is concerned.

But if robots are to replace us, that would make us the gods. What would there be to replace the constructs afterwards?

I'm going to be honest and say that I don't know the answer to almost any of those questions. These things are hard enough to process, let alone try to answer.
Sorry for the underwhelming response.

''But if robots are to replace us, that would make us the gods. What would there be to replace the constructs afterwards?''
We will be gods who have no idea what they are doing and could get themselves overthrown. After that the robots create something and they become the gods. And I'm guessing the same process repeats itself. At some point something so smart and powerful is created, that it finds a way to shatter or even change the laws of the universe.

I'm not even implying I know anything. I'm a speculator. We will probably never know the truth as there possibly is none.

What after?
Is there no end, only a (new) beginning?
And if there's an ending, what's the point of all of it?

"What after?
Is there no end, only a (new) beginning?"
Quite possibly. I at least, can't imagine a scenario where there is an eternal standstill.

"And if there's an ending, what's the point of all of it?"
I guess there's no point.
The only possible point would be to finish the "story" in which we live in , but that's it.