What survives is the gene - subject to mutations etc. We are already 'Borg' in the sense of mass assimilation. One's mind could be transposed to another substrate (nearish future) - our bodies are currently replaced every 5 years or so- and the new substrate could have nanobots that would allow minds to outlive Lee's 'hope'. Such substrated minds might link in super-intelligence and be able to re- transfer into more human-like bodies they learned to make. This would be a time beyond singularity. We don't know what such intelligence might invent or even discover - perhaps such intelligence would discover we are not as alone as we think. Being human or human being might be as irrelevant as a mitochondria wanting to live free again. We might be free of the tiny machines (genes) so much part of our behaviour now.
On 28 Nov, 14:40, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > T9 grrrrrrr > Allan > > Matrix ** th3 beginning light > On Nov 28, 2012 11:38 AM, "gabbydott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Ah! That's the extended version of 'possibly maybe' then (my grammar and > > spelling checker suggests 10 instead of 'then' though)! :) > > > 2012/11/28 James <[email protected]> > > >> I am an aspect of what was, is, and will be, coextensively. Maybe. > > >> On 11/27/2012 2:28 AM, RP Singh wrote: > > >>> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and the > >>> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an off-shoot of > >>> the instinct for survival. > > >>> -- > > >> -- > > > -- --
