u/CheapSuccotash3128

What I remember:

• Set billions/trillions of years in the future.
• Humanity/posthumanity no longer lives in physical bodies or on planets.
• Civilizations exist more like distributed minds/colonies in space.
• Because of the expansion of the universe, colonies are slowly moving beyond each other’s observable universes and losing the ability to communicate forever.
• The story involves what may be the last conversation between two such colonies.
• Minds within a colony are gradually merged together into a single consciousness.
• This may or may not be true but I vaguely remember a reveal near the end that the narrator had already merged/absorbed all the other minds in the colony and was effectively speaking as the colony

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

What I remember:

• Set billions/trillions of years in the future.
• Humanity/posthumanity no longer lives in physical bodies or on planets.
• Civilizations exist more like distributed minds/colonies in space.
• Because of the expansion of the universe, colonies are slowly moving beyond each other’s observable universes and losing the ability to communicate forever.
• The story involves what may be the last conversation between two such colonies.
• Minds within a colony are gradually merged together into a single consciousness.
• This may or may not be true but I vaguely remember a reveal near the end that the narrator had already merged/absorbed all the other minds in the colony and was effectively speaking as the colony.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

What I remember:

• Set billions/trillions of years in the future.
• Humanity/posthumanity no longer lives in physical bodies or on planets.
• Civilizations exist more like distributed minds/colonies in space.
• Because of the expansion of the universe, colonies are slowly moving beyond each other’s observable universes and losing the ability to communicate forever.
• The story involves what may be the last conversation between two such colonies.
• Minds within a colony are gradually merged together into a single consciousness.
• This may or may not be true but I vaguely remember a reveal near the end that the narrator had already merged/absorbed all the other minds in the colony and was effectively speaking as the colony itself.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?