XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   >Like it or not, that is what some dreamers are dreaming.   
      
   If your consciousness was uploaded and then downloaded   
   into several machanical-animals at the same time, which self   
   would you then say is your true-self, assuming one was   
   to start the process?   
      
   Would they all be nodes, in some hyper-cloud-self,   
   that continually updates their software? Would you call all   
   of them your peripheral selves?   
      
   Since they would all be merged and blended with all others,   
   assuming they'd have access to dagnabit's all-knowledge   
   data-base, would not all of them be you, in some Way?   
      
   Hence the form of the formless you, and how.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)