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My bad, I shouldn't have said "civilization," I rather meant
humanity. My point is that after we attain immortality, we'll be able to become "superhumans," and at that point the evolution of humans as a species will stop, and we'll be able to grow intellectually and spiritually by living through countless scenarios in VRs.
Though it's possible that even then there will be a lot of ways for our consciousnesses to develop, or it might be possible that our biological brains will impose a limit to how much we can become transhuman (I don't like this option
:<). And things can get even more interesting if you subscribe to the 8-circuit model of consciousness.
And yeah, our civilization will still be able to advance, inventing superluminal travel or perhaps creating our own universe.