On 1/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rafal Smigrodzki</b> <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
### I also see myself as a pattern, and I would prefer to grow up to<br>exist indefinitely in a state recognizably similar to present,<br>although much smarter and more powerful. And yes, I agree that<br>evolving beyond recognizable similarity with my current pattern would
<br>be a form of death, even if at each step the transformation was<br>ego-syntonic.<br><br>Still, as forms of death go, this is a magnificent one: aside from<br>happily staying alive forever, what could be better than going out in
<br>a blaze of supernatural, god-birthing glory?<br><br>The only thing even better than that is indefinitely staying alive,<br>happy and powerful *and* spawning off a copy that becomes an Old One.</blockquote><div><br>
Okay, these are good points!<br>
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- Russell <br>
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