I think this is something like “subliming” from Iain Banks’ Culture books. Most directly addressed in The Hydrogen Sonata. Beautiful swan song of a book... RIP Iain :(
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@cstross ‘s Saturn’s Children has humanity dying out. Can’t remember the precise mechanism but it was non violent.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Old man’s War
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“The Forever War” by Haldeman. Humanity moves past procreation. The Forever War (The Forever War Series Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PI184XG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ThN6AbSP02862 …
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Hmm... basically impossible, for the simple reason that it would only take one gene or meme that preferred self-preservation for that to dominate. So author would either have to really not understand (/ deny) basic evolutionary processes, or come up with a damn good explanation.
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You can sample the feeling by reading Anathem by Neal S. Guaranteed you'll get that losing interest feeling.
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Depending upon how you read it, "Childhood's End".
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“The Unincorporated Man” has just that scenario. A “VR plague” saps the will of most people to feed themselves eventually.
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Buddhism? Pythagoreans and Orphics?
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