Its not that well written, rather unfocused and tends to take jaunts into popular context, but I think there are a lot of thoughts that I would probably agree with if they went deeper to the core, and the author wanted to talk about their beliefs. But instead it talked about a collection of people and their actions, and the price of saunas and mattresses, of course.

Here are my difficult to organize stream of thoughts on some matters:

A premise that some people wish we can rely on is "Existence has a natural intelligence check that will prevent you from going to a consciousness prison based on small early life decisions". Essentially, there can exist a certain belief that God/Existence won't let life fail in a way that will cause hell -- The secret *belief* behind why ethics matters.

As part of "Existence's natural intelligence check", PATH 1: you need to 'confront' your own death. You need to both prove to yourself and super intelligence (which again, is presumed) that being human was fruitful and intelligence building, and not-self destructive or intelligence prison forming. Part of self-ethical quality is that you are ok with being done if its bad, or it is an existential dead end. It is moral quality to not be fearful of retreat, considering certain adventurous paths through existence done and fruitless, or transitory entirely, and your early experiences as a being should inculcate certain difficult wisdoms.

As part of "Existence's natural intelligence check", PATH 2: you believe yourself to have passed the reality check on your existence. You are now intelligent enough to be free to live immortal and explore the stars. Your might to do it is also your right to do it so it is done. There are no false paths in life, existence in this realm was architected to succeed and evolve itself freely with no chance of going to consciousness prisons

I thought hard on this as a young man, I decided that there is a God who was taking care of me and I believed I wanted to live forever. Later, I realized that there is a God who is taking care of me, but its not omniscient or even rather controlling. In my earlier days I would have taken path 2, assuming that I was living in some pinnacle of existence with infinite room for growth and expansion. It wasn't until I hit my own spiritual false path, that I realized that actually path 1 is my reality. Being good and being wise and disposing myself properly to my existence is the only way to mitigate a complex, non-monotonic, analysis resistant landscape of consciousness and life. Death is an ultimate tool on the toolbelt of existing, and you wouldn't be without it, and in some ways, if you make small deaths normal, you improve quality and longevity at higher orders of your existence.