tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post712469313929737970..comments2024-03-26T19:46:33.565-07:00Comments on Random Walks: "A Small World To Live On, A Big Universe To Die In"- part 2John Kurmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-1273332873221198062011-01-21T12:31:03.565-08:002011-01-21T12:31:03.565-08:00lol....,lol....,CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-21021686291600415432011-01-21T08:33:17.374-08:002011-01-21T08:33:17.374-08:00If memory servers, Childhood's End.
Unfortuna...If memory servers, Childhood's End.<br /><br />Unfortunately, I'm of the opinion that, much as I dearly love to speculate on these types of things, I don't know jack and never will. Even an order of magnitude bump in IQ or empirical info on the subject still puts me in the diminishing returns department. And so... next topic!John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-85439255605146774172011-01-19T13:12:03.875-08:002011-01-19T13:12:03.875-08:00inhale the Clarke very deeply and hold it in John ...inhale the Clarke very deeply and hold it in John - because therein lies the simultaneous answer to the Singularity/Fermi Paradox kwestin; <i>In their explorations, they encountered life in may forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.<br /><br />And because in all the Galaxy, they found <b>nothing more precious than Mind</b>, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of the stars; they sowed and sometimes they reaped.</i><br /><br />Geological history and Fermi's Paradox alike trumpet loudly and clearly that multi-cellular terrestrial life is <b>risky and dangerous an'a'muhphukka...</b> even old Stephen Hawkings was on about this very dilemma not too long ago. <i>Po thang, he needs to trip balls a few times before he leaves this mortal coil, talkin bout spaceships and such...,</i><br /><br />However, once a multicellular species achieves its technology enabled panspermian probe/drone singularity - and can store limitless data in a bacterial substrate - while simultaneously determining bacterial genetic constructions with computational reliability and ease - then that species has achieved its utilitarian endgame for non-portable, fragile, and terrestrially dependent multicellular automata - and simultaneously - the endgame for the eternal storage and proliferation of mind - as we know and experience it. <br /><br />Because in addition to achieving the probe and drone panspermian prime directive, the Singularity is the very next/concurrent thing we'll do with our organomechanical technology - transitioning our own engrams (Mind) into a durable, fungible, sustainable, immortal bacterial substrate capable of surviving extremophile environmental conditions and aggregating into the stromatolytic monads of aeons past.<br /><br />Why do you think when you REALLY trip balls on some profoundly good organic entheogens - you know, your ayahuasca type extravaganza - you encounter advanced non-human intelligences of a most sophisticated, standard, and universal sort? <br /><br />There be dragons, elves, and other fey and wonderful intelligences from remotest antiquity and furthest cosmic reaches who already long ago achieved their own species transition and immortalized themselves in the alternative bacterial microcosmic substrate/dimension.<br /><br />Psalm 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-43204781582490954562011-01-19T11:57:23.749-08:002011-01-19T11:57:23.749-08:00Ah, yes. The problem with predicting the future is...Ah, yes. The problem with predicting the future is you just go and assume it will be like the present, but more better. Zeppelins in every garage, &c, &c.<br /><br />Panspermia may be the way to go. Then again, intelligent life could just be self-assembled via exquisitely timed compressions and rarefactions of comet dust and stellar winds via holographic radio waves or powerful lasers, or the manipulation of gravity itself via stellar tectonics or something.<br /><br />In other words, we run right into the Singularity and Fermi's Paradox, which share a common theme. If you get to the level of sophistication where you can broadcast life out into the galaxy, and perhaps beyond, all of our pedestrian side wagers are pretty much off the table, aren't they?John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-41304604635823046672011-01-19T10:22:57.644-08:002011-01-19T10:22:57.644-08:00nah brah,
That's not how it's done.
lol...nah brah,<br /><br />That's not how it's done. <br /><br />lol...,<br /><br />When your civilization reaches the level at which it can engage in <a href="http://subrealism.blogspot.com/2010/05/farmers-in-fields-of-stars.html" rel="nofollow">serious astrobiology</a> - it does it via machines utilizing a bacterial dandelion model.<br /><br />and when I say machines, I'm not thinking about Clarke's hackable monoliths - though he did have them function as GOD's (genetic omni-determinists) of biology - I'm thinking about the lessons we've already learned in;<br /><br />1. <a href="http://subrealism.blogspot.com/search?q=genomics" rel="nofollow">computational genomics</a><br />2. our longstanding knowledge of <a href="http://subrealism.blogspot.com/search?q=astrobiology" rel="nofollow">astrobiology</a> and panspermia<br />3. newfound techniques for <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/216981/need_unhackable_largecapacity_data_storage_try_your_large_intestine.html" rel="nofollow">bacterial data storage</a><br /><br />space is rife with spores. some spores are damn near indestructable and eternal. Just like a dandelion, an advanced civilization seeds the cosmos with rugged bacterial probes and drones fully capable of inhabiting and terraforming a variety of prospective biospheres, and most scarily, of invading and infecting biospheres ripe for conquest and incapable of sufficient adaptive response.<br /><br />the engineered biology inherent in those spores determines chemical and biological outcomes on the planet(s) suitable for hosting its operations. we are within a stone's throw of all the technology required to engineer such probes/drones - and - we have more than sufficient technology to have begun the interstellar seeding process decades ago.<br /><br />hell, this is the very basis of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis" rel="nofollow">Gaia hypothesis</a> (or at least what Lovelock said to look for)<br /><br />shiiiiiiittt....,<br /><br />we may do our own species in here before long, but not (I suspect) before we fulfill the prime directive and pass on the Gaian legacy into the cosmos as farmers in the field of stars. (or fruiting bodies in a vast planet spanning fungal mass) <br /><br />wash, rinse, repeat - ad infinitum...,CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.com