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What do philosophers think about Asimovs 'The Last Question'?

'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov was the story that got me into philosophy, so I just wanted to know what other people think of the story.
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Well, its based on a real theory called the omega point detailed by people like tielhard de chardin and Frank Tipler. Its certainly an interesting theory, and you can look it up, but the general consensus is that its not very plausible when taken literally.

In a more metaphorical vein, there's someone named quentin meillassoux who believes it in an ideological sense. He says that the archetype of god is necessarily related to morality even though its something that no tangible instantiation of exists in the present. And so our morality has to relate to moving towards the theoretical goal of creation of God. Obviously in practice this may not be possible. So staying in the realm of realism, this goal would be ordained towards other things. But he basically says that there's four views on god. Believing in god because god exists, not believing in god because god doesn't exist, disbelieving in god because god exists, or believing in god because god doesn't exist. The first two are straightforward. The third is a form of rejection of god as being meaningful while believing one exists, thinking its bad. He defines his view as the fourth. There's no problem of evil since god is not tangibly instantiated in the world. And if god existed certain ultimate benefit would be achieved. But since god isn't here, we must do the work ourselves, but at the same time use the archetype as both a model for morality, and as a model for hypothetical possible creation in a literal sense in the far future.