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How long until a post-human consciousness will have a lifespan of a billion years? If never, why is that not a possible future? There's two scales you can cha
by colechristensen 4y ago
How long until a post-human consciousness will have a lifespan of a billion years?
If never, why is that not a possible future?
There's two scales you can change, yourself, and the tools you use to interact. So how fast can you make a spaceship competes with how long you can make your life.
- asdff 4y agoPost human conciousness on earth has already been around for what nearly 4 billion years? Life on earth represents a meta organism. It's a human bias to elevate the significance of the human species component above that of the greater meta organism. Ecology can be studied with similar tooling whether the frame of reference is a continent or your gut microbiome. If we wanted to, say, ship earthbound life to another planet, then lets consider the best form of earthbound life to make that journey across a hostile environment for an indefinite period of time. Chances are its not humans adapted to persistent hunting and gathering, but put some microbes or spores into a vial wrapped in gold foil, and you wouldn't even need a complex generational space ship to seed earthbound life across the universe, just a gun capable of firing the vial on a vector.
- colechristensen 4y agoYou and I are using different definitions for “post” and “conscious”, not sure how to move forward with such differences.
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