Stephen Hawking. If he had the opportunity to transfer his brilliant, eternally-curious mind into a nano-super-computer like  Cogito  - and shed that ravaged mortal-coil burden of a body - and explore the cosmos for all eternity and satisfy those nagging curiosities. Would he take that opportunity? Oh you betcha.    Would Steve Jobs? Would Einstein? Would Bill Gates?    Would you?    Some minds are worth immortalizing.    One of the themes of  Deus ex Machina  is that all this fervent computing humans are doing is evolving their own evolution - from mortal organic to digitized immortal.    Which may actually be what all this computing is about.    Stephen Hawking believed it was possible.
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