mortality and duplication and souls
Jan. 10th, 2003 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI feel old today.
Partially due to a couple people proving how much younger they are than me by celebrating their 21st birthday (stop being so young at me, damnit!), partially due to watching boatloads of screaming kiddies run around assorted forums, partially due to, well, not getting any younger.
On the bus, I read an electronic copy of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Interesting book; I may buy a physical copy when it comes out in paperback. Its world is oh-so-post - scarcity, death, all that. Lots of restore-from-backup.
I will back myself up, once such procedures become possible, assuming it's not a destructive backup that leaves your brain a muddy soup of sludge, assuming any of the optimisticly-post speculations of current SF come about. But I will cherish my first life as long as I can, because, though I'm a fairly staunch materialist, I will still be pondering the whole 'soul' issue, and the transience of experience.
Oh, I was going to post some bus doodles last night, but lj was being bitchy. Too lay to retype my notes on them now, so I'll just post the saved copy when I get home.
And the mood image is swiped from the VCL sieve, using the VCL's bandwidth. *grin*
Partially due to a couple people proving how much younger they are than me by celebrating their 21st birthday (stop being so young at me, damnit!), partially due to watching boatloads of screaming kiddies run around assorted forums, partially due to, well, not getting any younger.
On the bus, I read an electronic copy of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Interesting book; I may buy a physical copy when it comes out in paperback. Its world is oh-so-post - scarcity, death, all that. Lots of restore-from-backup.
I will back myself up, once such procedures become possible, assuming it's not a destructive backup that leaves your brain a muddy soup of sludge, assuming any of the optimisticly-post speculations of current SF come about. But I will cherish my first life as long as I can, because, though I'm a fairly staunch materialist, I will still be pondering the whole 'soul' issue, and the transience of experience.
Oh, I was going to post some bus doodles last night, but lj was being bitchy. Too lay to retype my notes on them now, so I'll just post the saved copy when I get home.
And the mood image is swiped from the VCL sieve, using the VCL's bandwidth. *grin*
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Date: 2003-01-10 07:08 pm (UTC)I already downloaded it, but I'm sure not reading it. Honest.
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Date: 2003-01-11 10:09 am (UTC)Physically I feel pretty much the same as when I was 21, though
perhaps I've just acclimated. I'm relatively slow at maturing
though, I still work with a group of performance artists who
stage elaborate pranks, and my SO still races motorcycles.
It seems like people age slower now, than they did a century ago.
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Date: 2003-01-11 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-13 09:06 pm (UTC)Actually, there is one redeeming feature about getting
old. Some things in the world start to make sense.
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Date: 2003-01-12 06:42 pm (UTC)