Exosingularities, pancyberspermia and SETI@home
If the advent of a technological Singularity on Earth is inevitable and if more than one technological civilization exists in the universe, it follows that there must be more than one Singularity. If some of these plural Singularities involve the uploading of sentience, then sentience may be broadcast as a "file" on light. Earth may be bathed in this modulated light which passes by with no effect until such time as the Cybereon we are building develops sufficiently to act as a substrate for the sentience encoded in the light. A file of sentience, able to recognize the sufficiency of an emergent cybersubstrate, inserts itself into it as if an interstellar computer virus.
Oh. Oh that's clever. And noble in a panstellar sort of way.
If the advent of a technological Singularity on Earth is inevitable and if more than one technological civilization exists in the universe, it follows that there must be more than one Singularity. If some of these plural Singularities involve the uploading of sentience, then sentience may be broadcast as a "file" on light. Earth may be bathed in this modulated light which passes by with no effect until such time as the Cybereon we are building develops sufficiently to act as a substrate for the sentience encoded in the light. A file of sentience, able to recognize the sufficiency of an emergent cybersubstrate, inserts itself into it as if an interstellar computer virus.
Oh. Oh that's clever. And noble in a panstellar sort of way.
posted by razorsmile at 9/10/2005 11:16:00 AM
2 Comments:
God - I don't know why, but I LOVE that word. Pancyberspermia, it just has a certain quality to it -
rolls off the tongue. haha
Doesn't it though? Like it encapsulates biotech, shinymetaltech and logolepsy all at once. Lovely.
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