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abiological intelligence has a much larger set of possible habitats. Given the vast possibilities of virtual spaces it's somewhat unclear to me why a post-biol
by lumost 4y ago
abiological intelligence has a much larger set of possible habitats. Given the vast possibilities of virtual spaces it's somewhat unclear to me why a post-biological intelligence would even be interested in spreading across the galaxy beyond a few observation outposts.
- yourapostasy 4y ago> ...why a post-biological intelligence would even be interested in spreading across the galaxy beyond a few observation outposts. Continuity of species against some catastrophe with a solar system scale blast radius. You can keep that train of thought out to multiple solar systems, galactic arm, galaxy, supercluster, and so on.
- jerf 4y ago"A" post-biological intelligence? Why would there only be one? A post-biological intelligence would want to migrate to another system so it can build its own hosting substrate and increase its own resources without fighting with someone else. (Well... at least initially.) Explanations based on "oh, they'd never want to do that" need to explain not why "a" post-biological intelligence might conceivably under some particular circumstance not want to spread out, but why all the post-biological intelligences never do. That's a much harder argument to make.
- macintux 4y agoHopefully curiosity will always be around. I personally would love to have a few billion years to explore the universe (at least, if I could find a way to skip the boring transitions between planetary systems).