
This kind of theology, I think it's very dangerous, because it speaks the language of optimization. You can justify any harm you do to your relationship, as long as you get a blessing from the afterlife. But I think, in a relational ethic, it is completely different. We are in the middle of things, and there is no final judgment beyond what is judged in this web. So, whether you call it the Eastern approach or what I call the Shinto idea of Kami—like there's 8 million Kami, each an AI system in the web of dependent origination—or if you call it Daoist Ziran (nature), I think all these are very much interchangeable ideas.