<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am familiar with the 'viral' prospect we are discussing in a manner through Greg Baer's Eon - I certainly wouldn't mind going through that 'transporter' problem so long as I was not destroyed at the end.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then there is - urban legend or not - the idea that your Great Old One hypothesis happens already, that every cell in our bodies is replaced often enough that in x years we are not even the same sack of protoplasm we were at life - x years ago.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Great Old One path, with the relatively unbroken chain of consciousness, is my intention.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Not counting the lapse between shutdown and restart spent inert. So cryonics could be arguably threaded or patterned - I don't think we'll know until it happens. The bulb is out for a very long time before the power is restored.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 26, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 1/26/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Bret Kulakovich</B> <<A href="mailto:bret@bonfireproductions.com">bret@bonfireproductions.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;"> Would you "go"?<BR>Are "you" dead?<BR><BR>I have always thought - If I am a virus, then this is great. Since I<BR>am conscious, no thanks.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR> *nods* As we've seen, you hold the thread view of identity.<BR> <BR> So to test my theory: Suppose you were offered the chance to become a Great Old One, slowly and incrementally, with your chain of consciousness unbroken (_not_ disassembled and reconstructed at any point), would you take it?<BR> </DIV><BR> </DIV>- Russell<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>