Our Three Forms of Immortality
When a person lives, their life — and the effect it has on the world — remains both in the moment and for some time afterward. Our existence can be seen as consisting of three very different dimensions.
The first and most obvious is our body, our material form. It is a collection of cells and molecules acting together. They move through the world, do things, speak words, create changes. This is the version of us that our consciousness perceives and identifies as "me."
The second dimension is our genetic code: DNA, genome, hereditary material — call it what you will. Its simple and clear task is to continue existing. That is the essence of life as a phenomenon: life lives for the sake of life. All mechanisms — bodies, diversity of forms, behavior — are only tools to achieve that. And the realization of this goal follows the laws of evolution and natural selection. There is no "intelligent designer" directing it all. Even if we imagine that such a being exists — a god, aliens, some higher mind — and that it created us, humanity, Earth, and the entire universe, that being itself must have emerged at some point. Even if it stands outside our world, on another level of the matrix, it still had to arise somehow. Which means there was a process much like evolution: the progression from the simple to the complex. The details might differ, but the foundation is the same. And if someone claims "it has always existed," that only shifts the question to the next level of the matrix: somewhere, at infinite depth, the same natural process of development is still taking place.
The third dimension of life is our trace. Everything we do leaves an imprint, a vibration: a step on the floor, a breath in and out, words, ideas, actions. Most of these vibrations fade quickly, dissolving into indistinguishable noise. But the butterfly effect still holds. Some traces endure much longer — years, centuries, sometimes millennia. Even if humanity disappears tomorrow and Earth or the galaxy is ruled by AI, it will already carry within itself the mark of our thoughts. Our intellectual imprint will remain, embedded as a relic of our vibrational legacy.
And each of these three dimensions has its own mechanisms of self-preservation, of reproduction, and — through reproduction — its own attempt to survive, believing in its own immortality.
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