Monday, December 15, 2025

The legal heirs of the Tintin comics should release a new album

The often brilliant Belgian comic book series known as the Adventures of Tintin by Herge hasn't released a new album in half a century.
There can't be another one, because the creator left instructions that he didnt want anyone else to draw the characters after his death in 1983. At that time, he left only a few incomplete sketches of a final comics album known as "Tintin and Alph-Art".
No one is allowed to finish it. We'll have to wait until 2054 until all copyright protections expire. (The copyright system is very powerful. We all know how Scientology managed to abuse it for decades.)

And yet, it could be done. A new album should be created, all perfectly legal.
It wouldn't include any of the original characters, while still being set in their universe.
The original characters would be mentioned, and it would reveal many new details about their lives.
For example, the newspaper that Tintin works for, and the detectives' police agency. All kinds of information about previous adventures, like the global reaction to the moon landing, and the investigation of paranormal events.

It would be a logically consistent deconstruction, going outside and beyond all previous stories, without breaking continuity in any way.
In case Moulinsart publishers are interested, I have hundreds of ideas available . . .

Sunday, December 14, 2025

What will REALLY happen after we die?

I figured it out guys!
According to Scientology, after you die your spirit migrates to a newborn baby's body, located in a not-too-distant maternity ward.
The scientific truth is of course something rather different than that.
I believe the best approximation of what really happens is the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, combined with the Closest Continuer theory by Robert Nozick.

When you die, the pattern of your brain is utterly destroyed. But throughout the multiverse, there exist infinitely many patterns that represent a "continuation" of your brain's final mind pattern.
The closest continuer is likely to be the most numerous continuer: the one that has the most copies throughout the multiverse. Which is also likely to be the simplest continuer . . .

These patterns can exist anywhere as hidden numbers, ordered in every possible way in the endless chaos of all that exists.
Let's call it the "Minimal self-recognizable mind instantiation" Theory ("Miseremi").

So the answer to the question of whether your spirit continues after you die is both yes and no.
After death, there is a fractional continuation of personal awareness, in which every memory will be recalled and extended. But this will be a random and chaotic process, with no greater meaning.
Being dead will be like dreaming. Most dreams are forgotten even before they end.

The legal heirs of the Tintin comics should release a new album

The often brilliant Belgian comic book series known as the Adventures of Tintin by Herge hasn't released a new album in half a century. ...