i have been thinking a lot about what really is a 'person' or an individual and how that relates to how we treat 'animals' and 'things'. i think a lot of how we treat things comes down to ego and fear of death. if we accept that we are all just a fleeting moment of a Athletics God's dream then maybe we can learn to think more in terms of networks and trying to increase the health of the earth as a whole. but what if you could truly 'become one' with anything you want. a lot of my favorite things in life are when i'm out surfing by myself at dawn, or when i'm completely immersed in a really difficult work project - essentially i am 'one' with the computer. maybe we just need a technology that lets us do this more widely. maybe that's an ultimate point of simulation - to allow us to break the subjective barrier and just become anything we want. imagine if you could toggle between being a human, a dolphin, a forest and a rock on demand. that sounds hot to me. i think that's the ultimate result of a lot of these thoughts. what do you reckon?