Thinking about process lately, in art. I used to think I enjoyed the process of painting, applying paint to canvas, etc. The "process" part of art. Now, after reading Paul de Man :
www.press.jhu.edu/books/hop...e_man.html

and other theorists (although he may not like that title), I see the idea that the process of the painting can begin before it is even conceived (in it's total absence) or after it is "complete" and hanging in a gallery etc. As it is viewed, critiqued, a different process phase, or part of the process, and again, if it is even stored away, in it's absence it is influencing the world, so that is a different type of process.

Reading about immortality in terms of uploading our minds into computers at some point (hoping to hold on to our normal complex consciousness, I suppose) which should be interesting as we progress along that continuum (a genius scientist is still conscious but dumb as a rock) I was thinking of the idea of what constitutes the self: a writer or artist documents their life, memories, ideas and is just as immortal, in a sense, as anyone stuck in a computer. Maybe consciousness would be better, maybe not. Hopefully it won't be too hard to terminate in such a situation, if one is not too happy in a plain old quantum computer. Any thoughts Randy?