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What does it mean?
To remain visible when his current body fails, the narrator breathes himself into a recently deceased young body.
In plain terms
The narrator moves his consciousness into a dead body when his own gets too weak.
What can you take from it?
Identity may persist independently of the physical body.

Where it applies

  • life extension
  • spiritual belief
  • fiction

Putting it to work

  • writing sci-fi
  • exploring death

Questions to consider

  • Is identity tied to the body?
  • What makes a self continuous?

Another view

This concept relies on unproven assumptions about consciousness.

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