Hi all,
I've been lurking a while, but wanted to share some thoughts I've been exploring recently. Apologies if they've been covered before, and aren't as 'mind-blowing' as I think they are
. Also, if someone has already thought of these, and has written a great novel, please let me know!So to start:
Assumption A. - The Singularity has a greater than zero chance of happening, within the lifetime of our universe.
Therefore give, long enough, at some point in time, the Singularity occurs.
Assumption B - The Singularity takes (even if only at some point) the form of an Omega Point style scenario, whereby the post-singularity beings 'resurrect' all the entities that have died in the previous time periods (and/or create entire new lifeforms / computational entities)
Dividing time into Pre-Singularity and Post-Singularity, we have:
- a period of time where life forms have naturally arisen and died spread out across the entire period,
vs.
- a period of time where likely all previous lifeforms are resurrected (likely in simulation) and are existent relatively simultaneously (per universal time), plus an additional multitude of new lifeforms that are generated from scratch/first principles (possibly in simulated universes).
Given any particular lifeform, and point-in-time, it is more likely statistically that the lifeform is alive in the post-singularity time period.
We are a lifeform (and ostensibly alive), hence:
Today, here and now, we are more likely alive in the post-singularity time period.
Ie. the Singularity has already occurred and we are living in it.
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This raises a lot of interesting questions to say the least.
- Were we a civilization that died and was resurrected, or an entirely 'artificial' creation? Or something else?
- Personally: Did I die, and was resurrected, or am I some form of post-singularity being but have forgotten? Or am I the post-singularity equivalent of the Amish?
- Are other Earth time periods and civilizations currently running in parallel?
- Why haven't the post-singularity creators revealed themselves, and the fact we are living post-singularity?
I could go on, but I'll put this out there, and would welcome discussion. I don't think I've done too much logical handwavium, but happy to be shown otherwise.
