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To live you need to preserve yourself; to preserve yourself, you need to desire to live.
I can see how the initial statements are both true, but they beg the question of what it means to preserve yourself.
We can start with a definition of self preservation. At the most basic level it is to keep your body alive, and as long as possible.
But what is self? Is it an abstract concept of your identity, or the physical reality of your body?
I have defined self as the abstract concept of your identity. To preserve it, you must protect that concept. So let's look at what this implies.
As we are just collections of atoms that obey the laws of physics, it is easy to see how atoms can be used to change your physical self.
So the first thing that we can say about self-preservation is that it does not require your physical body to be preserved.