Homo Evolutis, Independence
When the first humans become homo evolutis, there will be another cambrian explosion of life forms. Certainly Androids that resemble humans will dominate, but inevitably there will also be extreme life-forms. The transition will probably go something like this. Self modification will be taken to an extreme with invasive brain upgrades. This would usher in the cyborg era. Eventually, our biological hardware will no longer be of use and intelligence will move on to engineered hardware, with which anything is possible.
This begs the question, what is the ultimate form of existance? I should think a shell capable of interpreting its environment with plenty of detail would be a fairly nice existance. Being able to interpret the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves would be a nice start. I would want to be able to fully manipulate my environment or not at all, whichever the situation requires. I would run an emulator for my human brain so that I could experience being human in a self-created virtual reality, so I can experience all the things I missed while I was human.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I want to be a god. I don't want to be a god for the control though. I could care less about having control of Earth. There's no shortage of them. I want to be a god for the independence. I want to be able to explore myself indefinitely, without having to depend on others for my survival.
Perhaps you would want to experience being a tiger, or a giant squid? Maybe a cloud in the sky or even a tornado. How would you like to interpret the universe? Check out next post, where we find out what it would be like during a shell change.
11.23.2009. 01:05
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