[shiven]

Not an ideological drive, i.e. not driven primarily by ideology. Driven more by a primitive will for my physicality to survive beyond my physical lifetime.

[AlexCoventry]

So mostly an attempt to address the fear of death?

[shiven]

Not fear. Just the certainity of death.

[AlexCoventry]

How does persistence of DNA address death?

[shiven]

DNA = A blueprint for something that makes me unique, and the only known way to travel through time, into the future — in the most sentient form I know of — as a ”not me, but still me” human.

[AlexCoventry]

There is nothing sentient about DNA.