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What happens to us when we die?
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I agree to some extent, although it depends on whether we perceive the body. Also, physical objects like books or recordings don't strike me as being analogous to minds. A bodiless mind seems more akin to the musical performance (that might be recorded) than the recording.
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Point taken - excellent!
Could the circle be turning? A bout 4bill years ago biology appeared - lithophiles that are rocks, increasingly turning rock into themselves. Then some of those lithotrophs started eating others rather than rocks, while the former continued to proliferate, converting ever more geology into biology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMqwgkXguw - I keep plugging this talk because it's my favourite and relevant to any thread about the phenomenon of life/biology IMO).
Some organisms, such as hermit crabs, would use the geology to act as a body part, while others would use rocks as tools. Eventually a hominid appeared that extended this idea further and increasingly shaped geology to "wear" as if they were hermit crabs creating their own designer shells. The hominids increasingly found different ways that geology could be shaped to achieve what biology could not. They found that they could not only replace their own body parts with such fashioned geology, those parts could be stronger and more capable than the originals.
They would increasingly carry a device with them for communication, entertainment and information accessing, gathering, storage and retrieval - information that was too plentiful or complex for storage in a biological brain. The devices became ever smaller to free up the hominids' hands and save effort, but this meant the devices could easily be broken, lost or stolen, and even temporary misplacement could be highly problematic in some circumstances.
Increasingly, the devices were implanted, and increasingly the integration of the implants became ever more seamless ... you know where this is going ...
... but the machine that the code is a mix of various rocks put together and reconfigured.
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MICHELANGELO’S DAVID ON ALPHA CENTAURUS IV
Discovered several hundred thousand years
After life was found to be extinct
On the third planet from a nearby star,
The strange rock elicited curiosity, some fears.
One biologist theorized that it had been
A giant form of life, petrified. But samples
Had revealed no organic matter, nothing
To indicate this stone had felt biologic discipline.
A geologist had surmised the surface had been worn
By liquid water – an exotic fluid that, at one time,
May have been abundant on that odd planet,
A theory quite unique for such a place so forlorn.
Gazed upon from a special angle (perhaps the thought is mad),
This form could be imagined to have lived.
A foot, or something like a foot could be at one end
And opposite, could it be a head with eyes completely sad?
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