From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 01:42:57 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Samantha writes
>
> >My suspicion is that you will find *you* too confining to remain
> >that *you* for terribly long. But that is the good news.
>
> And the bad news? :-)
>
> Oh, don't get me wrong. I want to as rapidly as possible
> evolve as revolutionarily as possible. It wouldn't
> bother me for an instant to evolve into something so
> advanced, so vast or wonderful that it doesn't resemble
> me at all. That in fact, it wouldn't be me at all...
>
> PROVIDED that I *also* continually maintain earlier
> versions that really are "me" as I am now and as I
> will be at each stage of the aforementioned ascent.
Well, if it is really important to you I guess that you will
do this.
Dunno how I would feel about doing the same. I might consider
it
actually a form of abuse to keep such limited versions of myself
from yesteryear perpetually so limited.
>
> As the identity and uploading threads prove, people
> simply cannot acknowledge that they can be doing
> two things at once, be in two places at the same
> time, and (perhaps at entirely different locations)
> pursue two or move lives at the same time. But
> enough of that on the identity threads.
>
I would be pretty disappointed if I could not multi-task /
multi-live at some point.
> Here it is enough to say that I look forward to
> the most bizarre, strangest, and most wonderful
> transformations that you can help me imagine
> (while not giving up any of the things that the
> current version likes to do!).
Great! Things you like to do should only be given up, other
things being equal, when you no longer like to do them (they no
longer serve your goals and aren't so pleasing any more). I
suspect you are wise enough to recognize that point when it
occurs.
- samantha
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