"The Universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” –James Jeans
Today's machine learning already employs combined elements of cognitive architectures,
evolutionary computing and neuromorphic engineering. Post-singularity superintelligence could have complete access to their own source code – a level of self-awareness presently beyond human
capability. That would allow our future syntelligence to create
myriad virtual worlds right out of our own superimagination. This scenario might have already happened elsewhere and we can’t
completely rule out a possibility that we’re part of that kind of simulated reality right
now. At the same time, we ourselves are moving towards the point of 'Theogenesis' where we can rightly call ourselves cybergods.
