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Nothing. I'm not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don't believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).
Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won't happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.
Transhumanist immortality?
Not quite, I would definitely still have a mortal brain (remember: no copies).
I'm sure if it could go this far, keeping my brain alive to 110yrs+ would probably be possible (and cyborg elder/geezer might even be a bit cool) though I also expect I wouldn't get that far if there were any reason for me to be in dangerous situations.
Not that I would even want to be immortal, anyway.