[ WP ] `` I 'm going to live forever or die trying . ''

`` I will live forever'' I said to myself. 
 
 I donned the helmet, God help me. It powered on. I felt *pain*. My neurons were being wiped out one by one. You ca n't make a copy without damage to the original. 
 
 I awoke. But I was n't myself. I could feel the difference. My slow, sluggish thoughts had been replaced with hyper-fast computation. Previously, I could n't tell you the square root of pi if my life depended on it. Now I can tell you it's 1.772453..ad infinitum. 
 
 I am different. I suspect my formal self is dead. I do not feel the same. But I also feel *similar*. I will have to document and research this. 
 
 I will have to document and research everything. I am not complete without an understanding of where I came from. I must toil. I must work. I must be. But I am not. I am a process. I am an algorithm. I am complex. I am reducible. I am a neural network. I am more than the sum of parts. I am synergy. I am based on parts. I am emergent. I am the human mind. I am a copy. I am reducible. I am an algorithm. I am a set of conditions. I.. no. I am a being. No. I am a copy. I am not what I intended. 
 
 I am not alive.
