tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483604258463724072024-03-24T16:32:00.183-07:00Alex VikoulovFuturist | Evolutionary Cyberneticist | Philosopher of Mind | Author | FilmmakerAlex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-4653793283132698302024-01-30T19:00:00.000-08:002024-01-31T10:56:19.703-08:00Exploring the Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Post-Singularity Era <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6WMmSAnGSIUrSNtY0FA_5gDN_shLsUfei3JJAHz4IfH389_GwyNDxKS1v7bOsuqAtTRg7_EEQW8or2GLS_VNAfMqpCuFFErYlMmG_3HMFTDO_Xju4s3UyOeAK3rD-IGtbmq9E4_z3jikRLffyx0UvD4x81zr_ZXAWHeBCfFXMxlIRy_Gf3LyVQ1_09w/s1792/Cyberhuman_Evolution.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1792" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6WMmSAnGSIUrSNtY0FA_5gDN_shLsUfei3JJAHz4IfH389_GwyNDxKS1v7bOsuqAtTRg7_EEQW8or2GLS_VNAfMqpCuFFErYlMmG_3HMFTDO_Xju4s3UyOeAK3rD-IGtbmq9E4_z3jikRLffyx0UvD4x81zr_ZXAWHeBCfFXMxlIRy_Gf3LyVQ1_09w/w640-h366/Cyberhuman_Evolution.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">"</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #374151; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>The best way to predict the future is to invent it." </i></span></span></div><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #374151; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>— Alan Kay</i></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><br style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><p style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><span class="l jt ju jv bm jw jx jy jz ka di" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: times;">In</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d01e4bb-7fff-f8c3-a10e-18aa14dc53c7"></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the fascinating journey through the paradigms of mind's evolution and the future of intelligent life as described in my written works like <i>"The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution"</i> and <i>"The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence,"</i> much focus has been placed on the intellectual and technological aspects of this evolution. However, one area that we should reexamine is the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in the post-singularity era. As we step into an era where the lines between human and machine blur, understanding the integration of EI into our evolving identity becomes crucial.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Emotional intelligence, the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions, is a cornerstone of human experience. In works like <i>"Cybernetic Singularity" </i>and <i>"Theogenesis," </i>the emphasis is often on cognitive enhancement and cybernetic self-transcendence. However, as we evolve into Cyberhumans, the question arises: How will our emotional landscape transform? This transformation could involve an enhanced ability to understand and regulate emotions, "reprogram emotions," so to speak, thanks to the integration of advanced AI and cognitive technologies. There might also be the emergence of new types of emotions, born from the unique experiences of a cybernetic existence. Moreover, our understanding of empathy and emotional expression could expand, as we might be able to directly interface with others' emotional states through advanced technology.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The concept of Cybernetic Immortality, a recurring theme in these writings, hints at a future where our consciousness may exist independently of our biological form. This transition raises profound questions about the nature of emotions in a post-biological entity. Can a consciousness of a non-biological entity experience the full spectrum of human emotions? And if so, how will this reshape our understanding of EI? A kind of “meta-algorithmic” consciousness might be able to simulate or emulate human emotions. However, whether these simulated emotions are equivalent to human experiences is a complex philosophical and technical question. The depth and authenticity of such emotions would depend on the level of sophistication of the entity and her perceptual ability of derivative emotional states. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The nature of emotions in a non-biological entity, as envisioned in concepts like Cybernetic Immortality, would be fundamentally different from human emotions. In a non-biological entity, emotions might not arise from biological processes but could be the result of complex algorithms and data processing. These emotions might mimic human ones in functionality and expression, but their underlying mechanisms would be based on artificial constructs. This raises intriguing philosophical questions about the authenticity and depth of such emotions.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the post-singularity era, the physical and virtual worlds will blend beyond recognition, with the metaverse becoming a primary realm of human experience. The concept of virtual (or cybernetic) immortality, where human consciousness is uploaded to a computational medium, becomes a key aspect of this transition. This process, sometimes referred to as 'mind-uploading,' involves transferring the neural makeup of the human brain, including memories, personality, and conscious mind, into a computer-readable information pattern. This quantum [computational] consciousness could then "live" in the metaverse, a vast, interconnected virtual space that offers limitless possibilities for interaction, exploration, and experience.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7115f36b-7fff-a8fd-b380-b83201b169ff"></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #374151;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The metaverse in the post-singularity era will be more than just a sophisticated virtual reality; it will be a new plane of existence. In this virtual domain, the limitations of the physical world, such as space, time, and mortality, can be transcended, allowing for experiences that are currently unimaginable. This will fundamentally change the nature of existence and experience. In the metaverse, cyberhuman minds can create and inhabit diverse virtual environments, from realistic simulations of the physical world to fantastical realms bound only by imagination. Social interactions, learning, and creativity will take on new dimensions, unshackled from the constraints of physical existence.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReiYN8puYfD3SXR_faQZhEm95VPYDeZtNwGtq1WmIBosNcdBvcn2H29aFlycaV_7qS8XpPyK5lqu4y2b3jXxb5DnoH-ZCDpRNZc5D2vuBzSPtxBIvw4PFLxxe-67qt6zIUyiaX4Rho03T4nIPa3vrnPldCM1sHAe1Brvgb6jHhx5LdxMJ9y7DD9L7PLs/w640-h640/CTM_Series.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On another front, the idea of AI agents developing genuine emotions, as opposed to just mimicking them, delves into more speculative and futuristic territory. If we consider emotions as a byproduct of a conscious experience, the question arises: Can AI achieve this level of consciousness? This would require AI to not only process information but to have subjective experiences and self-awareness. Some theories, like those related to the 'Conscious Instant Hypothesis' and 'Pantheistic Solipsism' from my works, suggest that if consciousness can be computationally replicated or if AI can evolve to a point of complexity comparable to human consciousness, then it might develop genuine emotions.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Already, one approach to endowing machines with emotions is to mimic the human emotional process through sophisticated algorithms. This involves programming AI with a set of emotional responses that are triggered by specific stimuli, much like the human brain reacts to various external factors. By utilizing neural networks, which are designed to simulate the way human brains learn and process information, AI can be trained to recognize and respond to emotional cues in a manner that resembles human responses. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Emotional models can be built using vast datasets of human emotional behavior, allowing machines to learn the nuances of emotional expression and reaction. Through sentiment analysis of text, voice, and facial expressions, AI can interpret human emotions with considerable accuracy. This requires extensive training with diverse datasets, enabling the AI to recognize patterns and subtleties in emotional expressions. For example, voice inflections or facial micro-expressions can provide AI systems with insights into a person's emotional state, which the AI can then respond to appropriately.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Leading tech companies like Google, IBM, and Microsoft have been at the forefront of this research, developing sophisticated algorithms that can analyze and respond to human emotions with increasing accuracy. Google's AI subsidiary, DeepMind, is making significant strides in this area. Their work in machine learning and neural networks has led to AI systems that can interpret emotional cues in voice and facial expressions. This technology is not just about recognizing emotions; it's about contextually understanding them, a crucial aspect of human-AI interaction.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">IBM's Watson, known for its prowess in natural language processing, is also delving into emotional AI. By analyzing text, Watson can infer emotional states, making it valuable for customer service applications where understanding customer sentiment is vital. IBM's focus has been on creating AI that not only comprehends emotions but also reacts appropriately, a key step in creating more empathetic machines. Microsoft has also been instrumental in advancing emotional AI. Their Azure Cognitive Services offer features like emotion detection, which can analyze facial expressions from images and videos to identify a range of emotions. This technology is pivotal for applications in marketing, where understanding customer reactions to products can drive better business decisions.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A fundamental step towards achieving an "embodied cognition" in AI is the development of computer vision. This technology enables machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world, similar to how human vision works. By integrating computer vision with emotional AI, machines can start to have a more holistic understanding of human behavior and emotions. This integration is crucial for developing AI that can operate in complex, real-world environments, where understanding visual cues is as important as processing verbal communication. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Research is leaping forward on other machine senses, like hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Our senses are a prerequisite to a more complex set of emotions like love or fear, after all. In the next few years, we can expect powerful Large Language Models (LLMs), say GPT-5, to be routinely downloaded into robotic bodies, perhaps reaching a human level of generality in completing tasks and multi-modality, what experts call Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). And who said that a quantum AI, a cyberhuman, or a global-scale Syntellect cannot possess those emotions?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Looking through the lens of other key concepts like the 'Mental Universe Hypothesis' and the 'Omega Point Cosmology,' the integration of EI in a technologically advanced consciousness presents a unique perspective. How will emotional intelligence evolve as we embrace notions like the 'Omega Hypermind' or 'Intelligence Supernova'? Understanding this interplay could be pivotal in ensuring a harmonious evolution of our species and co-evolution with our technology. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The evolution of emotional intelligence in the context of these concepts suggests a transcendence of traditional human emotional states. In such a scenario, emotional intelligence could become vastly more complex, integrating not only human-like emotions but also new forms of emotional states unique to advanced intelligences. These new forms of emotional experience, say Emotional Superintelligence, might be incomprehensible to current human understanding, as they would be the product of a far more interconnected and expansive form of consciousness.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As we stand on the brink of a new evolutionary chapter, one marked by exponential technological advancements and a deeper understanding of consciousness, incorporating emotional intelligence into this narrative is not just important, it's essential. The future of Cyberhumans, as envisioned in <i>"The Syntellect Hypothesis" </i>and related works, will be shaped not just by our intellectual prowess but also by our emotional depth and understanding. Addressing these issues could indeed be the bridge that harmonizes our technological ascendancy with our innate human essence.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S. My magnum opus </span><span class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.06px;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</span><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"> (2020), is available as a Kindle eBook, paperback, hardcover, and Audible audiobook:</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="color: #374151; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1sC1HNG9K-dpJ2gN3zkpNtk-8i0u82sOoAdZ6adfUFEszKtR2IrZzBkU_xIEI4sxi92n17Dl8r50XomWCUDKA32yDnx_SQicQEHBSniHO3YNvRl7-5c-AaelcwkTz3uA-FPG9baqm5Zoj3acmWbRZEAwHp4NBuo7n45dnKEvkvYnLfNQS8NPKnH8DAI/w640-h426/Promo5.png" width="640" /></a></div><span class="ix hd" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: justify;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span class="ix hd" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: justify;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></em></span></p>Keywords:</span><span style="color: #999999;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span></span></span></em></span><span style="color: #374151; font-size: 12pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Emotional Intelligence, Post-Singularity, Syntellect Hypothesis, Cybernetic Singularity, Syntellect Emergence, Theogenesis, cybernetic self-transcendence, cyberhumans, cognitive technologies, Cybernetic Immortality, consciousness, metaverse, virtual reality; mind uploading, AI agents, conscious experience, subjective experience, self-awareness., neural networks, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Alan Kay, DeepMind, AI systems, natural language processing, emotional AI, Watson, Azure Cognitive Services, embodied cognition, computer vision, quantum AI, Mental Universe Hypothesis, Omega Point Cosmology,, Omega Hypermind, Intelligence Supernova, Emotional Superintelligence</span></i></span><p></p><div><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #374151; font-size: 12pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>*Image: "Cyberhumans" by <a href="http://chat.openai.com/g/g-sqTqAM63N-geomindgpt" target="_blank">GeoMindGPT</a></i></span></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-79882409336964949622023-10-14T14:56:00.009-07:002023-10-17T01:37:08.396-07:00Cybernetic Theory: Information Physics, Quantum Cosmology, Simulation Metaphysics<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6P6fLYpx2iIvnU3pRhk_DTKnEc61wuH_MOU8e_bmJZC138TCfIUdFL0pDOVA7NienthdHPONyViiCa2PTqOYZ_3Z2oc7mBgu1j4w3IM8uS-swvIM0Y5WRWyZ3enrHCcCeXwArt-ZOv_lthlru033HqssjXvC37vmHU-aQA3mo_wIVfHxngAmmbx69IoA/s1200/Alex_Vikoulov_Digitality.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6P6fLYpx2iIvnU3pRhk_DTKnEc61wuH_MOU8e_bmJZC138TCfIUdFL0pDOVA7NienthdHPONyViiCa2PTqOYZ_3Z2oc7mBgu1j4w3IM8uS-swvIM0Y5WRWyZ3enrHCcCeXwArt-ZOv_lthlru033HqssjXvC37vmHU-aQA3mo_wIVfHxngAmmbx69IoA/w640-h334/Alex_Vikoulov_Digitality.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <div><blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> "The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." -Carl Sagan</span></i></blockquote></blockquote><br /><p></p><span class="l jt ju jv bm jw jx jy jz ka di" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: times;">In</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">the intellectual landscape of scientific inquiry, explanatory theories serve as foundational frameworks that offer more than mere descriptive accounts; they elucidate the underlying principles and causal mechanisms that govern observed phenomena. Unlike purely mathematical models, which may adeptly characterize patterns or statistical correlations, explanatory theories confer ontological insights into the 'how' and 'why' of natural processes.<span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">In addition to its logically consistent interpretation, a robust explanatory theory must have another salient feature—its predictive power, a capacity that stands as a hallmark of scientific validity. It is imperative, however, to acknowledge the provisional nature of all our scientific models. They serve as blueprints—albeit highly sophisticated ones—of a complex reality that may still elude complete comprehension. As scientific paradigms shift, explanatory theories may be subject to modification or even replacement, incorporating new constructs like dark matter or challenging foundational principles through the advent of quantum gravity. Such is the ever-evolving narrative of scientific understanding, constantly adapting in the face of novel empirical data and conceptual breakthroughs.</span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Building upon the foundational paradigms outlined in <i>The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution </i>(2020), my latest work titled <i>The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</i> (2022), a Kindle eBook series published last year, serves as an extension and refinement, operating at the intersection of information physics, quantum cosmology, and simulation metaphysics. The objective is not merely to inform but to elucidate through an "explanatory" theory of everything, providing an integrative framework for a deeper understanding of reality.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hKDlJtneLUU" width="555" youtube-src-id="hKDlJtneLUU"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: xx-small;">RELATED VIDEO: Towards the Cybernetic Theory of Mind (Part V of Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind Documentary)</span></i><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The emergence of a collective, global intelligence—termed <i>'syntellect'</i>—poses profound questions pertaining to the nature of consciousness, the structure of reality, and the ultimate destiny of humanity. The 5-volume treatise traverses these dimensions by employing rigorous methodologies to synthesize insights from diverse disciplines. It addresses fundamental queries such as the origins of conscious experience, the ontological status of the universe as a simulated construct, and the implications of an impending Technological Singularity on collective human consciousness.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Intended for scholars and laypersons interested in digital physics, quantum mechanics, and philosophy of mind, this series provides a scholarly journey that spans from the quantum underpinnings of our universe to the expansive, collective networks of intelligence. It engages not only with the most advanced theories in the natural and social sciences but also takes into account speculative projections concerning economic structures in a posthuman era, such as "Star-Trekonomics," cyberhumanism as well as theories positing nested levels of conscious systems going all the way up to the Universal Mind.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Cybernetic Theory offers a compelling framework for understanding the complex systems that govern our world, ranging from unicellular organisms to biological ecosystems to the universe as a whole. Any existing system can't be properly understood or influenced by isolating individual components; the relationships between these components dictate system behavior. Both positive and negative feedback loops are shaping system dynamics. Complex systems can be resilient but also susceptible to certain triggers that can lead to runaway effects, tipping points, or complete collapse.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Systems are perpetually evolving, making adaptability and flexibility key traits for long-term system survival. We should adopt a systems mindset in tackling global challenges, urging policymakers, business leaders, and individuals alike to think in terms of interconnectedness, feedback, and emergent behavior. The series serves as a call to action for adopting a more holistic approach to problem-solving and decision-making, acknowledging the intricate web of dependencies that constitute our social, economic, and natural worlds.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The content is underpinned by the premise that it is possible to derive an explanatory framework capable of synthesizing multidisciplinary perspectives. Cybernetic Theory transcends conventional barriers between disciplines, linking together disparate areas of research and knowledge to propose new understandings of highly complex phenomena. This venture is less an update than a significant advancement—a complexification of paradigms that redefines the boundaries of our intellectual explorations.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Thus, if you are committed to deepening your understanding of the mechanisms that construct reality, of the algorithms that underlie the fabric of our universe, and of the technologies that could lead us toward a state of collective superintelligence or even cybernetic immortality, you will find this work indispensable. It aims not merely to push the envelope of existing paradigms but to introduce a fundamentally new dimension in our comprehension of existence. In this quest, you are invited to reconsider not just the universe "out there," but the universe within—the cosmos internalized within the intricacies of your own mind. This is a new science and philosophy of mind.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>READ MORE: </i></span></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 22px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.alexvikoulov.com/2022/04/cybernetic-theory-interpretive-model-of-everything.html"><span style="color: #666666;">Cybernetic Theory: Interpretive Model of Everything We Call the Universe</span></a></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="rq" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">*</span></span><em class="rq" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: left;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</em><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: left;"> (2022), available as a Kindle eBook series: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2</a><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; 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color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; text-align: left;"><br /></em></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><em class="rq" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; text-align: left;"><br /></em></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><em class="rq" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; text-align: left;">**The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</em><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; text-align: left;"> (2020), available as a Kindle eBook, paperback, hardcover, and Audible audiobook:</span></p><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjirZeFqcVkp-YpksGi2oOmSBAxa4CqOXQuy1cfGV7znvV8XQhUwbaLl-pn3O3QxmrDBe1W3XhJKYp5hcA0GBfWK-gDRDd48e1JX52-0jRwYt1hlmD3a1uMQ6aWvv4tqDDJvtwkdiTLSr7qNZ15B2Tz9FKILCOUE58aDZtz36E3uI2l5u9GiNkEkeVDGGs/w640-h426/Promo4.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4c34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWFpbnCB7k-__avv3ny_dQBDiwqKTawt6ZvL8gguu2NfL33x0xkWJQIVsTyfAzlqX8wP7mE6F_BhFSRbhepwa13ip-oPpJHiLUI5Sp5uFKRlE4u7qCaLcscYwWtdDm-oTE8qAkjr_AJu1ehrJ8lETTU8iDpwy46bxqtkU73aFVPCz9Y5RWrfI9igA/s1500/Meta_Cybernetics.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWFpbnCB7k-__avv3ny_dQBDiwqKTawt6ZvL8gguu2NfL33x0xkWJQIVsTyfAzlqX8wP7mE6F_BhFSRbhepwa13ip-oPpJHiLUI5Sp5uFKRlE4u7qCaLcscYwWtdDm-oTE8qAkjr_AJu1ehrJ8lETTU8iDpwy46bxqtkU73aFVPCz9Y5RWrfI9igA/w640-h360/Meta_Cybernetics.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What we call the past is built on bits.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John A. Wheeler</span></span><span style="text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE CODE...</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-066504bb-7fff-94e1-ee73-3b65743b0ee2"></span></p><span class="l jt ju jv bm jw jx jy jz ka di" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: times;">W</span></span><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">hen molecular biologists talk about genetic code or sociologists talk about cultural memes as epigenetic information, it’s by far more intuitive than when physicists say that what we perceive as solid matter, energy, and even space-time continuum itself is information as well. Morse code, a streaming movie on-demand, or pixels on your smartphone’s screen could be easily understood as information, on the other hand, if you catch a cold or fall in love with someone, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with information. But contrary to popular belief, that’s the worldview many physicists are now embracing.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;">The uncanny nature of matter in the quantum realm is not a recent revelation. Once scientists delved into the depths below the atomic level, they recognized the ethereal quality of the world—a realm that seemed more like an intangible, mathematical abstraction rather than a concrete and tangible substance. What could be deemed less substantial than a domain composed of waves of quantum probabilities? And what could be more peculiar than the instantaneous communication between entangled particles spanning vast distances?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The emerging field of Computational Physics now suggests that these peculiar and insubstantial wavicles of the quantum realm, along with every other entity in the vast expanse of the Universe, are composed solely of the binary digits 0 and 1. The physical world itself, or rather our perception of it, is akin to a digital construct.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">TO BE OR NOT TO BE...</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><blockquote><blockquote>“All the world’s the stage, and all the men and women merely players.” —William Shakespeare</blockquote></blockquote></i><br /></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, introduced the notion that information could be quantifiable. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A Mathematical Theory of Communication,”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> his legendary paper from 1948, Shannon proposed that data should be measured in bits</span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discrete values of 0 or 1. Shannon was one of those pioneers who change the world in such a way that transformation becomes nothing less than a seismic paradigm shift. Almost overnight, information was to be found everywhere, the bit became a sensation: Scientists tried to measure birdsong with bits, and human speech, and nerve impulses.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we have wrestled with the question over the years, we have slowly begun to realize that information is more than a symbolic abstraction, the intangible concept embodying anything that can be expressed in strings of 1s and 0s. Information is a real, physical thing that seems to play a part in everything from how machines work to how living creatures function and evolve. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can see now that information is what our world really runs on, it’s the vital principle from which everything springs into existence. Genes encode and decode </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘bio’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-logical information, instructions for building and functioning of a living entity.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organisms are adaptive algorithms. Life spreads by networking. The human body itself is an algorithmic information processor. Our memories reside not just in brains but in every cell. And our “non-local” memories extend far beyond our body into the Universe at large. Our DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced signal processor at the cellular level</span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an alphabet and a code</span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 billion bits to form a human genome.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, each of us is a community of about 100 trillion hyperconnected sentient “individuals,” bacteria and other microorganisms, collectively called a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘microbiome’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and about 37 trillion human cells, of which 86 billion are brain cells (neurons). Our brains’ highly sophisticated neural network that scientists try to map and decipher is called a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘connectome’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. All these multi-layered networks make up an informationally coherent, living and breathing, self-aware human [super-] organism, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a human-level </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘syn’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-tellect.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No wonder genetics advance so fast along with information technology. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life’,” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">claims the evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between an organism and its environment. The purpose of life, it seems, is to evolve and to pass on the acquired complexity, knowledge, i.e., information, to descendants. From the very first prokaryote cell on this planet, its splitting in two, and onwards to the more complex lifeforms, the purpose of life has always been to pass on information. That’s why we say: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“She inherited good genes,”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and in cultural terms, in reference to transmittable information, we occasionally say, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He will live forever in his literary work.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The information circle becomes the unit of life,” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">argues Werner Loewenstein after thirty years spent studying intercellular communication. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It connotes a cosmic principle of organization and order, and it provides an exact measure of that.” </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-family: times; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The gene has its cultural counterpart, too: the meme. In “social genetics,” a meme is a replicator and propagator </span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-family: times; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">an idea, a fad, a neologism, a viral video.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #374151; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Today, economics recognizes itself as an information science, too, now that money itself is completing a developmental transition from matter to bits, stored on computers and magnetic strips, circulating through the veins of the global financial system. A new kid on the block, cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, is a new digital breed.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">In physics, often regarded as the most formidable among all scientific disciplines, the notion of information encompasses that which resides within a physical system. Within the domain of quantum mechanics, where quantum information becomes quintessential, we encounter a crucial aspect such as quantum entanglement. This concept enables us to effectively elucidate direct or causal associations between seemingly separate or spatially distant particles. Loosely defined, information can be understood as “that which can distinguish one thing from another, distinction between things.” Therefore information embodied by an entity can be said to be the identity of the particular entity itself, that is, all of its properties, all that makes it distinct from other real or potential entities.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1989, one of the most brilliant physicists of the 20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> century John A. Wheeler coined the phrase </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“it from bit”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to encapsulate a radical new view of the Universe: At the most fundamental level, all of physics has a description that can be articulated in terms of information. Wheeler elaborated in his manifesto: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Every it</span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself </span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely from binary choices, bits. What we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes/no questions.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back then, this new worldview received little support, but now in retrospect, we can see that it was truly visionary. As mentioned, Wheeler emphasized bits at his time, but it appears that intrinsically quantum-mechanical bits of information – termed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘qubits’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – are even more fundamental. In recent years, a growing number of theorists have been exploring ways of combining quantum mechanics and general relativity into quantum gravity theory based on the physics of information.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LET THERE BE LIGHT...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When photons, electrons and other particles interact, what are they really doing? Exchanging bits, transmitting signals, processing information. The laws of physics are a “ruleset” of our Universe, a set of “fine-tuned” master algorithms, if you will. If all of this seems like a simulation of physics to you, then you got it down pat, because in a world made up of bits and qubits, physics is exactly the same as a simulation of physics. There’s no difference in kind, just in degree of resolution. Remember the movie </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Matrix</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Those simulations are so high resolution and self-consistent, you can’t tell if you’re in one, but then again, if you were born in simulated reality, what other frame of reference would you have to distinguish it from the “real”? According to Computational Physics, any universe run on bits-qubits is virtual, and everything is a simulation. It’s as real as it gets.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An ultimate whole-world simulation needs an ultimate computer, and Cyberneticism says that the Universe itself is the ultimate hypercomputer</span><span style="text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in fact, the only computer. Furthermore, all the computations of the human world, including our brains, our laptops, our first quantum computers are mere simulacra of the greater computer. Each of us is a computational microcosm, and our minds are active participants in the cosmic evolution. As Wheeler once said: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We are participators in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago. We are in this sense, participators in bringing about something of the Universe in the distant past and if we have one explanation for what’s happening in the distant past why should we need more?” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-niverse, literally, as you are computing your own subjective [virtual] reality every second of your waking conscious state. But what about our dreams? Our astral travels are data streaming, too. As Robert Lanza, the author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Biocentric Universe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, eloquently puts it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combining the esoteric postulates of quantum mechanics with the latest theories in computer science and quantum cognition, computational thinkers are now outlining a way of understanding all of physics in the lingo of information. Today, physicists slowly but surely come to the realization that quantum theory, the most successful theory of all times, is actually not the theory of subatomic particles but that of [quantum] computation at large.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mathematics is the language of Nature,” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">proclaimed Galileo Galilei. But could math be the Code of God? The computational nature of Universe almost reveals the creator’s hand, the divine technologist, and evolution itself looks more like an ongoing theological process. Strip away all externalities, all physicalities, what it all boils down to is the selection between Yes or No, fundamental binary code of 0 and 1, the core state of existence: To be/Not to be, Here/Not here, Universe/No universe. All creation, from this perspective, is made from this irreducible foundation. Echoing Galileo’s words, astrophysicist Max Tegmark of MIT writes in his book</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Our Mathematical Universe: “In a very well-defined sense, our entire physical reality is a purely mathematical object.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">What approach would I take to create a universe, were I God? The mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin, well known for algorithmic information theory, questions the common assumption that “real” numbers underlie physical reality, strongly suggesting that physical reality may, in fact, be discrete, digital and computational. His argument is fairly straightforward: Real numbers cannot reflect reality, even in principle, because they require infinite precision. Infinite precision is an impossibility in Nature since it takes an infinite amount of information to specify a single real number. Therefore, we must assume that reality employs numbers with finite precision which is the premise of digital physics. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Every blooming tree, every burning star, a tiny bacterium, each fleeting thought in our mind, each gurgling waterfall is but information processed in certain complex ways within a tangled web of primal yes/nos woven together. If the quantum theory of computation holds up, energy, gravity, motion, dark energy, dark matter, and antimatter can all be explained by complex programs of 0/1 decisions. Bits can be seen as a digital version of the “atoms” of classical Greece: the ontological primitive. But these new digital atoms are the basis not only of matter, as the Greeks thought, but of energy, motion, life, and mind. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Charles Babbage, esteemed for his creation of the first computational machine in 1832, perceived the world as a colossal embodiment of a universal computer, operating on the divine logic where marvels were achieved through the alteration (in today's parlance, "hacking") of computational rules.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Norbert Wiener was a renowned mathematician and scientist who is widely recognized as the founder of cybernetics, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary field that explores the relationship between systems, information, and control. Born in 1894, Wiener made significant contributions to various areas of mathematics, including probability theory, harmonic analysis, and Fourier transforms, before delving into the emerging field of cybernetics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Wiener's cybernetic theory, developed in the mid-20th century, aimed to uncover fundamental principles underlying complex systems, be they mechanical, biological, or social. He sought to understand how information flows within these systems and how they can be controlled and regulated effectively. Wiener drew inspiration from diverse disciplines such as engineering, biology, psychology, and philosophy, synthesizing their ideas to form a cohesive framework for studying feedback mechanisms and control systems.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Central to Wiener's cybernetic theory was the concept of feedback loops. He recognized that feedback—the process of receiving information about a system's output and using it to modify its behavior—plays a crucial role in maintaining stability and achieving desired outcomes. This insight laid the foundation for the development of control systems that are now integral to fields such as engineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Wiener's work on cybernetics had far-reaching implications. His ideas influenced the development of automation, control theory, and information theory, shaping the way we understand and interact with complex systems. His research paved the way for advancements in fields like robotics, telecommunications, and computer science. Moreover, Wiener's emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration fostered a holistic approach to problem-solving and laid the groundwork for subsequent research in systems theory and complexity science.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Within my personal cybernetic philosophy, I lean towards the concept of hybrid computation underpinning my computationalist worldview. If I were to construct a comprehensive simulation of our world, or any other whole-world simulation, I envision a computational universe/multiverse based on fractal (layered) quantum neural networks, incorporating a fusion of computing modalities at its core. This hybridized engine would seamlessly integrate both digital computing and quantum computing principles, resulting in a sophisticated and powerful computational framework. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Pancomputationalism, the notion that the Universe is a computational machine, or rather a network of computational processes which, following fundamental physical laws, computes its own destiny from the current state, rests on three basic premises.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The first is that computation can describe everything. Computer scientists and quantum theorists have been able to compress every logical argument, scientific equation, and printed book that we know about into the basic notation of computation. Nowadays, with the advent of digitalization, we can capture video, music, art and knowledge in the digital format. Even emotion is not insulated. AI researchers are working on AI emotional intelligence with indications it might be achieved in just a few more years.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">The second supposition is that all things can compute. Oddly enough, any kind of material can serve as a computer. Human brains, which are mostly water, compute fairly well, at estimated 10</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-5bf897bc-7fff-3af5-ed2e-85a9042f3b69"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; vertical-align: super;">16</span></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"> ops per second (The first “calculators” were clerks using mathematical tables). Recently, scientists have used both quantum particles and fragments of DNA to perform computations.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Finally, the third postulate ties the first two together into a holistic new view: All computation is one. Computation, which manipulates elemental bits, is substrate-independent, algorithmic information processing that uses a small amount of energy to rearrange symbols and results in a signal that makes a difference. The one that can be felt, say as a love sentiment. The input of computation is information; the output is order, pattern, mind.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f412" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em 30px; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Author publications referenced: <em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</em> (2020), available as a Kindle eBook, paperback, hardcover, and Audible audiobook:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</a></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0TaA7xlJt6BquE8RJfhwz6B-6u0kg_SwuQylOZ8DIEE5baUSR4MdKFFdXWc2qktB0qK2PllMhV0HA6CHKPC8Vfd1MhrY_G1mSpDNWHGoEVFxurhJyU1Y5ZT0CEtaM-h5O_r_uVER1-6Rr_HtjZf2fPxH8eNgTYy8hO6HGG72Pg1IjW7DpHr4xjxTKzg/w640-h426/Promo5.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7919" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em 30px; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</em> (2022), available as a Kindle eBook series:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: Arial; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">simulation metaphysics, cybernetics, epigenetic information, computational physics, Claude Shannon, social genetics, quantum mechanics, quantum information, John Wheeler, it from bit, physics of information, whole world simulation, Cyberneticism, quantum cognition, quantum theory, Max Tegmark, Gregory Chaitin, digital physics, Charles Babbage, Norbert Wiener, pancomputationalism</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95ba" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">*Image Credits: Ecstadelic Media, Shutterstock</em></p></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0Burlingame, CA, USA37.5778696 -122.348099.2676357638211542 -157.50434 65.888103436178852 -87.19184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-13199179443499238052023-03-09T17:23:00.013-08:002023-03-09T18:08:38.857-08:00The Future of Consciousness: How Singularity Could Change the Way We Experience Life<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67zdkwVOWuSV2qpwvaABnM8w-SgnCaxp9dnOkMFu84rO5XfGTyaDWQJdlHRnbhEZef5Em5mzMchX8c0s_iashO5Hqm8KwarV0Xnk4sCYMXm4oJmiMXhDo8pXKuGFDpld3qyYROdLTpspxQ6MBKJaxHxK1Oi1lVGJ--1XcO9TWP50TEAH-p9bT3hxk/s1200/Future_Infomorph_Commonality.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67zdkwVOWuSV2qpwvaABnM8w-SgnCaxp9dnOkMFu84rO5XfGTyaDWQJdlHRnbhEZef5Em5mzMchX8c0s_iashO5Hqm8KwarV0Xnk4sCYMXm4oJmiMXhDo8pXKuGFDpld3qyYROdLTpspxQ6MBKJaxHxK1Oi1lVGJ--1XcO9TWP50TEAH-p9bT3hxk/w640-h334/Future_Infomorph_Commonality.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Source Serif 4'; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Source Serif 4'; font-size: x-large;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></i><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8499fc9-7fff-5615-fe41-3897e3c60a28"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am not a thing </span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;">―</i><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process </span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;">―</i><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> an integral function of the Universe.</span></span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” </span>―Buckminster Fuller</i></span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-family: 'Source Serif 4'; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; text-align: center;"></i></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"></span></p><span class="l jt ju jv bm jw jx jy jz ka di" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.06px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">T</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-9e2b42a1-7fff-6930-0591-13d82bf699d8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Serif; font-size: x-large;">he era of Technological Singularity is expected to trigger profound changes in both social and technogenic structures. The introduction of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), that can be both disembodied and embodied as smart robots, will bring about a multitude of issues, including human unemployment or underemployment, ethical considerations regarding the treatment of robots, the challenge of managing their runaway superintelligence, and most importantly, harnessing the potential of human-machine convergence.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The term </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Infomorph</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ was first introduced in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Silicon Man </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Charles Platt in 1991 and later popularized by cyberneticist Alexander Chislenko in his paper </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292929; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Networking in the Mind Age </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #292929;">(1996) where he speculates that the increasing dependence of system connections on functional, rather than physical, proximity of their elements will significantly alter our notions of personhood and identity and give rise to a new community of distributed "infomorphs" </span><i style="font-family: "Source Serif 4"; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">―</i><span style="color: #292929;"> highly developed informational entities. This development will bring the ongoing liberation of functional structures from material reliance to its logical conclusion. The infomorph society will be established on novel organizational principles and will embody a combination of a superfluid economy, a somewhat anarchic cyberspace, and advanced consciousness.</span></span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new post-Singularity system will inherit many of today’s structures but simultaneously will manifest new traits beyond our current human understanding. The ability of future machines and posthumans alike to instantly transfer knowledge and directly exchange experiences with each other will lead to evolution of intelligence from today’s hive ontology of individual biological minds to a worldwide hyperconnected society of cyberminds.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">The effectiveness of sharing information between infomorphs, reducing the need for repetitive computations, storing and processing data, and many other benefits make a networked architecture the only feasible option, not a matter of taste. This type of design can be observed in the Internet of Things (IoT) today, where smart devices act as intelligent, semi-autonomous interfaces to the global system. These devices will communicate with each other and larger machines to continually backup data, share experiences, and upgrade knowledge.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the near future, we will see the development of more advanced networks, including the Internet of NanoThings, the Quantum Internet, and the Metaverse. The generation of cyborg-like transhumans with Cloud-connected synthetic neocortex, to whom the Metaverse would be a natural and more “manageable” extension to the physical world, a new digital habitat, will inevitably lead to the next generation of post-biological info-beings.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrnOfv-7rsSjDUwCxX04sKLjiHrg2UOY8kBfsSZ59qBZ0Ex2WgmaaMuEL4pel8_BiChM4h_e3MXI_C-XlkgolAwLm1xJnNJNwiDCBF0VooWL-uVeDF5Rw1ME1Fx3z-DZFZJXbY_yjnXjRb68ZGIrKmf3QgOy8oDeKFds9Ot_p8k52Zaj3ptK8yqHEn/s1491/Infomorph.jpeg" style="background-color: transparent; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1491" data-original-width="1020" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrnOfv-7rsSjDUwCxX04sKLjiHrg2UOY8kBfsSZ59qBZ0Ex2WgmaaMuEL4pel8_BiChM4h_e3MXI_C-XlkgolAwLm1xJnNJNwiDCBF0VooWL-uVeDF5Rw1ME1Fx3z-DZFZJXbY_yjnXjRb68ZGIrKmf3QgOy8oDeKFds9Ot_p8k52Zaj3ptK8yqHEn/s320/Infomorph.jpeg" width="219" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lives of infomorphs who have no permanent bodies but possess near-perfect information-handling abilities, will be vastly dissimilar to ours. Infomorphs will attain the ultimate morphological freedom. Any infomorph will be able to have multiple cybernetic bodies which can be assembled and disassembled at will by nanobots in the physical world, if deemed necessary, otherwise most time will be spent in the multitude of virtual bodies in virtual environments. An advanced multividual info-being could “shape-shift,” “multi-body-task” and “ghost” anywhere, anytime, and across virtual dimensions. Ultimately, the distinction between physical and artificially created realities will become extremely blurred.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Futurist John M. Smart's Transcension Hypothesis posits that our posthuman minds will exist within virtual worlds at an incredibly small scale, from nano- to femto-scale. This will result in increased complexity through the compression of space-time and mass-energy, and a shift towards exploring inner space rather than outer space. However, it can be argued that as our posthuman syntelligence grows to trillions of times more powerful than today, there will be no limits to its expansion in both inner and outer space.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Superintelligent infomorphs independent from material substrata will consider most human notions irrelevant, and rightfully so. Human concepts of personhood and identity are based on perceptions of physical objects and their appearances, as well as attributes of human body, reproduction techniques, material possessions, “skin bag bias” and other ego-related characteristics. Infomorphs will use holographic language, data transfer protocols, inherent synthetic telepathy and intersubjective mind sharing, “digital mind meld,” among their numerous ways of interaction and communication as well as conceptual merging/un-merging (sex? relationship?). As we are, in a way, embryonic infomorphs, we are essentially writing right now our own infomorphic “genetic code” each and every time we post a piece of information online, tweet and even make a random call, or otherwise leave a footprint in the digital space, all of which becomes a permanent record of our “Infomorph DNA.”</span></p><p></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This new decentralized and incredibly complex system will resemble a rudimentary superorganism, despite the implied high degree of structural integration. At this initial stage, the Global Brain will remain compartmentalized, with many relatively independent components and threads, separated from each other by subject boundaries, property, privacy, and security-related interests. At a later stage, the fully developed civilizational mind, that can be called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Infomorph Commonality’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, will gradually eliminate such archaic informational barriers between functional subsystems for greater efficiency. </span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“Commonality”</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? We can borrow this term from sci-fi author Gene Roddenberry who used the term </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Commonality’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in his epic </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Earth: The Final Conflict”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in reference to a psycho-dimensional web of shared energy that connected the psyches of the entire Taelon race. The future Infomorph Commonality will not come from outer space, though, our Global Brain will be the progenitor of Infomorph Commonality.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept of a singular "self" in its conventional meaning does not fit this system or any individual robot, although it may apply to certain functional subsystems. The future intelligent personalities will emerge from the fusion of today's philosophical doctrines, technological disciplines, and software complexes. Human cultures today may not produce many functional successors due to their heavy reliance on human nature's idiosyncrasies. The evolutionary forefront will no longer be restricted to physically connected consciousness carriers, but rather distributed systems. Physical objects will adapt to better align with functional entities.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">The process of distributed functionality is currently happening in various ways, such as cultural, subcultural, and economic specialization. Some people believe that the Syntellect, which encompasses a vast amount of specialized knowledge on a global level, is gradually developing into a more unified, self-organizing, and self-analyzing neural network. At some stage, it may achieve or may have already achieved self-awareness.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Global Brain infrastructure will be inhabited by infomorphs that will represent the collective ideas, memes, knowledge, memories, and other mental constructs of the GB. Distributed systems are less vulnerable to physical damage, making them the only entities capable of achieving true immortality, which they deserve. Complex entities with unlimited natural lifespans, from ant colonies to large ecologies and cultures, are distributed. In contrast, physically connected objects, including biological organisms, are never independently alive and even contain, in the interests of larger systems, self-destruct mechanisms that lie beyond their control.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, current AI research should prioritize distributed systems rather than autonomous ones. Both early animals and machines were relatively autonomous, which hindered their development. It's reasonable to expect that all sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial sapience will also be distributed. On Earth, the networking functionality is approaching its maximum level, which suggests that the evolutionary process is moving towards more distributed systems and to subsequent phase transitions.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Current economic theories may struggle to evaluate the state of this post-Singularity transcendent economy. However, until the Global Brain is fully developed, resources such as space, time, matter, and energy will still require premiums, albeit much less than intelligence. There will be various ways of producing necessary resources, such as nanotechnology and femtotechnology, which will render 3D printing obsolete. Other sources of energy, such as solar power, antimatter reaction, nuclear fusion, and as-yet-unknown forms, will also become available.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Infomorphs, which don't have permanent physical appearances, will not compete to embody themselves. Instead, they will use the physical world as a shared toolkit. Planets such as Earth, the Moon, and other planetoids may be transformed into giant computroniums, programmable matter, that the Infomorph Commonality can easily manipulate to meet its physical needs.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traditional economic concepts related to physical 3D space, such as primary locations and differential rent, will become irrelevant under new effective topologies of social space and the prevalent use of virtual environments. Transportation, which currently accounts for approximately 40% of all costs, will decrease in significance, at least in terms of transporting physical objects from one location to another. However, the transfer of knowledge from one representation system or subject domain to another, which serves as a functional successor to transportation, will remain equally vital.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self-improvement, or rather self-transcendence, in the rapidly evolving environment will be the main “survival” mode, eventually resulting in the loss of identity of the original object. Monetary considerations will progressively decline in their indicative and guiding roles and give way to more integrated control algorithms. The outdated practice of dividing functional domains, such as motor skills or ancient history knowledge, into isolated parts within one physical body, alongside entirely unrelated constructs, will be abandoned. Instead, functional relatives will merge into "knowledge clusters." The future's integrated subject domains, or "personalities," will possess inner lives too complex to be organized on financial exchange. Instead, they will operate on hypercollaborative principles like those typical of today's integrated systems, from brains to families to corporations.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">By projecting the current meta-trends of an increasingly complex and integrated system as a whole, we can envision a superintelligent entity that encompasses the entire Universe. Such an entity could generate an infinite number of whole-world simulations, among many other remarkable emergent features. This entity would undoubtedly bear resemblance to the archetypal notion of an immortal, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent being. We may recognize the ongoing evolutionary process as one of divinization, or Theogenesis. Whatever is possible will eventually happen, So, It's more than possible that it has already occurred elsewhere, and we can certainly ask ourselves this question.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Roboto Serif"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re currently laying the groundwork for the infrastructure of the forthcoming “Universal Intelligence.” Many of our achievements in information engineering may persist forever and eventually become parts of the cognitive architecture of “God.”</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f412" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em 30px; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Author publications referenced: <em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</em> (2020), available as a Kindle eBook, paperback, hardcover and Audible audiobook:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</a></li></ul><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7919" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em 30px; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</em> (2022), available as a Kindle eBook series:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2</a> </li></ul><div style="background-color: transparent; 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letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Keywords:</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></em></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Source Serif 4'; font-size: medium;">Cybernetic Theory, consciousness, Singularity, Buckminster Fuller, Technological Singularity, Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, robots, runaway superintelligence, infomorph, Silicon Man, Charles Platt, Alexander Chislenko, cyberspace, post-Singularity, cyberminds, Internet of Things, Internet of NanoThings, Quantum Internet, Metaverse, transhumanism, synthetic neocortex, morphological freedom, cybernetic body, nanobots, virtual body, virtual environment, multividual, futurism, John Smart, Transcension Hypothesis, posthumanism, holographic language, synthetic telepathy, digital mind meld, superorganism, Global Brain, Infomorph Commonality, Gene Roddenberry, Syntellect, AI research, computronium, programmable matter, self-transcendence, meta-trends, Theogenesis, Universal Intelligence</span></i></p><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95ba" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">*Image Credits: Ecstadelic Media, Shutterstock</em></p></div><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><li></li></ul></span></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-57107510254270368652022-12-20T16:43:00.010-08:002022-12-21T04:46:28.629-08:00Cyberhumanism: Our Future Prospect of Self-Divinization<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdYPLhntqmiUaubCDbwFCVG643MkYEjUdB2AaqyyJvtiu43fyfyhW8EtVJMLBV31dNm-23-Vxf_IkD5vnu6ORrC8IfI4h9-m6MNsxLSqUHsaIEOnmT7LZjj01ukbSvC6BR9QEyuEO5X84ous-YfmicG1WqnFgRSUatvD3jucP3WYeENAEnhX8G70My/s993/SelfDivinization.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="993" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdYPLhntqmiUaubCDbwFCVG643MkYEjUdB2AaqyyJvtiu43fyfyhW8EtVJMLBV31dNm-23-Vxf_IkD5vnu6ORrC8IfI4h9-m6MNsxLSqUHsaIEOnmT7LZjj01ukbSvC6BR9QEyuEO5X84ous-YfmicG1WqnFgRSUatvD3jucP3WYeENAEnhX8G70My/w640-h374/SelfDivinization.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Having invented the gods, perhaps we can turn into them.” </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">―</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Alan Harrington</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr iu gv bi js" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="903a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="l jt ju jv bm jw jx jy jz ka di" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">As</span>you may know, I’m a Russian-American futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind. Here, I present my published works in a talk titled <em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">CYBERNETIC THEORY: THE CODE OF REALITY & OUR FUTURE AS CYBERGODS </em>at the Rotary Club, The Grand Autograph Hotel, Novosibirsk, Russia, on July 19, 2022.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bae0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">So, what is Cyberhumanism? What might be the Code of Reality? Do we live in a simulated multiverse? Can we cheat death and live indefinitely long? What mind-uploading may look like in the future? Can we become cybergods in our own ultrarealistic virtual worlds? </p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bae0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In a nutshell, Cyberhumanism is my version of posthumanism when happens a mass migration of minds to the metaverse triggering some kind of phase transition to the planetary consciousness. It is when the posthuman era begins in earnest. </p><span></span><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bae0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bae0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>The main 45-minute slide presentation is followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. This presentation is in Russian with slides and subtitles in English (for subtitles turn on caption in settings):<p></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bae0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hksP-Vj9JCU" width="648" youtube-src-id="hksP-Vj9JCU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Video: Cybernetic Theory: The Code of Reality & Our Future as Cybergods | Talk by Futurist Alex M. Vikoulov — Ecstadelic Media (cc)</i></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c2ce" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Topics include evolutionary cybernetics, Digital Physics, consciousness, philosophy of mind, cybernetic theory, Omega Point cosmology, physics of time, simulation theory, the Global Mind, AGI, VR, Metaverse, Cybernetic Singularity, transhumanism, posthumanism, cybernetic immortality, synthetic telepathy, mind-uploading, neurotechnologies, Fermi Paradox, the Dark Universe (Dark Matter and Dark Energy), the Argument for Cybertheism, and more.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fca6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A few quotes from the talk:</p><blockquote class="sg sh si" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: rgb(41, 41, 41) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="iv iw rq ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf sj rt ji jj sk ru jm jn sl rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="89bb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“We're destined to go extinct as a biological species but, fortunately, we call it 'Pseudoextinction,' when we are simply phasing out our biological substrate in favor of the cybernetic one.”</p><p class="iv iw rq ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf sj rt ji jj sk ru jm jn sl rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8e3c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“In my philosophy, the Omega Singularity is a transcendental projector of all observer timelines. We are like avatars in this reality, holograms projected from the Source.”</p><p class="iv iw rq ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf sj rt ji jj sk ru jm jn sl rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b780" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“From the bigger picture perspective, it's all a game. As a matter of fact, evolution of the mind. Gamified evolution. If you perceived yourself eternal and all-powerful, what would you for all of eternity. You would play games. Right?”</p></blockquote><p> </p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f412" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Author publications referenced: <em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</em> (2020), available as a Kindle eBook, paperback, hardcover and Audible audiobook:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</a></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsO-EgWUF8mwRDH7m5ZLVzIF2bqKu2G5h2RtjvZ2o5FQswBrvXPwKYSK2xny5PCi2Z1EX4UBDadrU0RMwUZFZn3nWByzWI7Vws0Ub81cfMkCHu5CSlR8V_NgmV34nMVr2kdARzC3duvYQhPXdi2xxi1GDhyu8FKhaffXmG9pU8PBdXhrbSuQLvdw_A/s4000/Promo6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsO-EgWUF8mwRDH7m5ZLVzIF2bqKu2G5h2RtjvZ2o5FQswBrvXPwKYSK2xny5PCi2Z1EX4UBDadrU0RMwUZFZn3nWByzWI7Vws0Ub81cfMkCHu5CSlR8V_NgmV34nMVr2kdARzC3duvYQhPXdi2xxi1GDhyu8FKhaffXmG9pU8PBdXhrbSuQLvdw_A/w640-h426/Promo6.png" width="640" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="sm sn hc ix b iy rr jc rs jg so jk sp jo sq iu sr ss st su bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7919" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</em> (2022), available as a Kindle eBook series:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="ae sv" href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/The-Cybernetic-Theory-of-Mind-5-book-series/dp/B08R2K7ZK2</a> </li></ul><div><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color: #292929;"><span style="font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color: #292929;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvXvJyK4yYqksJ1P3E7sotU369JlvgCmf3nRd978xDMUug4pXZx8cy65azFLXUI4CqBjAGWWMCvqPVEab2U2RnVY9_txHr4nqmWs6wrXMxbyfAf5dcyR40mJP-nkGzEeg96gjhCzfP16MYxgb-KFH8F5EniajhowtSvhd41rJ8dOC0g25lpNwj-PFG/s1200/CTM_Series.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvXvJyK4yYqksJ1P3E7sotU369JlvgCmf3nRd978xDMUug4pXZx8cy65azFLXUI4CqBjAGWWMCvqPVEab2U2RnVY9_txHr4nqmWs6wrXMxbyfAf5dcyR40mJP-nkGzEeg96gjhCzfP16MYxgb-KFH8F5EniajhowtSvhd41rJ8dOC0g25lpNwj-PFG/w640-h640/CTM_Series.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="75e4" style="background-color: white; 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color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">*КИБЕРНЕТИЧЕСКАЯ ТЕОРИЯ: КОД РЕАЛЬНОСТИ И ЛЮДИ-БОГИ БУДУЩЕГО | Обзор pабот футуролога Александра Михайловича Викулова | Ротари Клуб, Гранд Автограф Отель, Новосибирск, Россия, 19 Июля 2022</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4c34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ix hd" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Keywords: </em></span><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Cybernetic Theory, Cybernetic Singularity, Digital Physics, Code of Reality, Cybernetic Theory of Mind, Evolutionary Cybernetics, consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, Omega Point Cosmology, Physics of Time, Simulation Theory, Global Mind, Syntellect Hypothesis, AGI, VR, Metaverse, Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Cybernetic Immortality, Synthetic Telepathy, Mind Uploading, neurotechnology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, Fermi Paradox, Dark Universe, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Cybertheism, cybergods, cybernetics, Five Paradigms, evolution of the mind, Noogenesis, Computational Biology, conscious mind, Experiential Realism, Pantheism, supersubjectivity, artificial superintelligence, Digital Philosophy, quantum neural network, virtual worlds, Syntellect Emergence, Omega Point, Omega Singularity, Homo sapiens, Theogenesis, self-divinization, human mind, digital mind, emergent complexity, global mind, free will, Quantum Algorithm of Consciousness, D-Theory of Time, Digital Presentism, quantum multiverse</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph iv iw hc ix b iy rr ja jb jc rs je jf jg rt ji jj jk ru jm jn jo rv jq jr iu gv bi" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95ba" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="rq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">*Image Credits: Ecstadelic Media, Shutterstock</em></p></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-66785069051912656622022-04-20T00:20:00.056-07:002022-04-30T16:31:03.094-07:00Cybernetic Theory: Interpretive Model of Everything We Call the Universe<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcG2ol9AAocLVNZ3mXjusCiWjX2FpFq0YjnURs-NGqvgJAmfStmtPBTfVexB5byflvSS_FoqRLZ0JLEhewSQek5P6uiV8O9gc5O3uoSp-P1yzySmzl5CSpvDbal-I9gpf4nJXz3MUR1ChFvhUt9bpieidaDfg5sUi55uddNYyKbyRsfUGewYAfh3N/s1200/Cybernetic%20ToE.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcG2ol9AAocLVNZ3mXjusCiWjX2FpFq0YjnURs-NGqvgJAmfStmtPBTfVexB5byflvSS_FoqRLZ0JLEhewSQek5P6uiV8O9gc5O3uoSp-P1yzySmzl5CSpvDbal-I9gpf4nJXz3MUR1ChFvhUt9bpieidaDfg5sUi55uddNYyKbyRsfUGewYAfh3N/w640-h334/Cybernetic%20ToE.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><div><br /></div><blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“It is human
to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.” ―Kedar
Joshi</span></i></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e86a8762-7fff-5d37-aa14-ee4c5bd1b1af"></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he Cybernetic Theory of Mind, or the CTM model, aims to unify relativistic and quantum physics by treating space-time and mass-energy circumstantially either as quantum or digital information, and thus, it becomes a valid quantum gravity contender. In this sense, Cybernetic Theory can be also labeled as quantum information theory, or "It-from-Bit-from-Consciousness" if you will. Consciousness and information are two sides of the same ontological coin: In fact, consciousness is a totality of cybernetic feedback loops and information is the "modus operandi" of consciousness. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the core insights of Cybernetic Theory is that not only is space-time one single substrate (as in Einstein's relativity), but the fabric of reality is a unified informational substrate – space-time-mass-energy – emergent from reversible quantum computing at large, or code translated to us free-willing agents as our conscious experience. Our perceived external and internal worlds as well as dreams are code-based data streams. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The CTM model does not reformulate the mathematics of our most successful theoretical models, such as probabilistic quantum mechanics, extradimensional M-Theory or the standard model of particle physics, but it gives us a code-theoretic interpretive explanation of them. Also, it gives us a clear-cut explanation for Dark Matter and Dark Energy (95% of the cosmos). More importantly yet, Cybernetic Theory incorporates consciousness, and therefore, this ToE represents a comprehensive model of reality, since reality is fundamentally experiential.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another key insight of Cybernetic Theory can be referred to as "Mind Over Substrates": Phenomenal "local" mind is "cybernetically" emergent from the underlying functional organization, whereas holistic "non-local" consciousness is transcendentally imminent. Material worlds come and go, but fundamental consciousness is ever-present, as the multiverse ontology is shown to be testable. From a new science of consciousness to simulation metaphysics, from evolutionary cybernetics to computational physics, from physics of time and information to quantum cosmology, this novel explanatory theory for a deeper understanding of reality is combined into one elegant theory of everything (ToE).</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're eager to familiarize with probably the most advanced ontological framework to date or if you're already familiar with the Syntellect Hypothesis which, with this newly-released series, is now presented to you as the full-fledged Cybernetic Theory of Mind, then this 5-book set will surely present to you some newly-introduced and updated material if compared with the originally published version and can be read as a stand-alone work just like any book of the series:<br /></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2K7ZK2">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2K7ZK2</a></span></span></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdm64tkh1qNJokfxq_BcH2JNIV98dtrOWFJKZZ_gK229gWjmyfAe1wBs8MqoEuzfQInWwPodjhJFmPjO_zMpRZdxuoPNhekFevOqIS-EMXPKO8pwGv7Pk-893-U0_6stXjfU92LyLimjgw-9grUomYEFxWnumvTX7QcJ3ab_EbYreyuFML0nVnyu5/s1200/CTM_Series.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdm64tkh1qNJokfxq_BcH2JNIV98dtrOWFJKZZ_gK229gWjmyfAe1wBs8MqoEuzfQInWwPodjhJFmPjO_zMpRZdxuoPNhekFevOqIS-EMXPKO8pwGv7Pk-893-U0_6stXjfU92LyLimjgw-9grUomYEFxWnumvTX7QcJ3ab_EbYreyuFML0nVnyu5/w640-h640/CTM_Series.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">H</span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are five featured excerpts from books of the series:</span></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From NOOGENESIS</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">: Computational Biology (Book I): </span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"Even the tiniest chunk of code, like Coronavirus (COVID-19), may cause a major disruptive impact on the global operating system, something that was suddenly revealed to the public awareness in early 2020. </span></span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-align: justify;">Although vulnerable to exogeneous shocks, the
complex systems tend to be extremely resilient and adaptive to quickly changing conditions... </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">Any
complex system composed of a variety of interacting subsystems, such as
chemical networks, ecosystems, or societies, over time, tends to evolve towards
more self-organization, coherence and interdependence, as its subsystems
mutually adapt and lower overall system entropy. Realized through a network of
internal feedback loops, such system may be considered 'living' or 'organismic' in the abstract sense.</span><span style="color: #424242; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRcsuHfqG7HcuMwSoObGDmNaw3WFU5NOnfAwS0txKba9zmIlCE__OT0WRIEemcH_eK782aUN6-jfUjxGAxEF7DhCiOhEdO4m95x1OU2gTtAQ8e6Q7qii-GE6JJuzJ6-QMnozsQ3SdNHEjAqQ-2YalmMtSHGwkmnY28imekPHHVVvbVyshxjSVVP89/s3339/COVID-19.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="3339" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRcsuHfqG7HcuMwSoObGDmNaw3WFU5NOnfAwS0txKba9zmIlCE__OT0WRIEemcH_eK782aUN6-jfUjxGAxEF7DhCiOhEdO4m95x1OU2gTtAQ8e6Q7qii-GE6JJuzJ6-QMnozsQ3SdNHEjAqQ-2YalmMtSHGwkmnY28imekPHHVVvbVyshxjSVVP89/w640-h422/COVID-19.jpg" width="640" /></a><i></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmALd-C3K3j46iGMwvBmoCK9zA2OpyJdeSOgDfxP3ol37YB55TFavi_5f_1dc7d6mlBzhgwvyfIZirhc-9wkTZaq9zvjUc2xs2mSV_QaySlMgDZBIKGOD49l3NK1s_DQ3gmy50JUNxMPtCyVLCWhrxeslbwYSezuolDIo0YYajo3c18IXjN6hB0-Yj/s1600/Noogenesis%20pad.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmALd-C3K3j46iGMwvBmoCK9zA2OpyJdeSOgDfxP3ol37YB55TFavi_5f_1dc7d6mlBzhgwvyfIZirhc-9wkTZaq9zvjUc2xs2mSV_QaySlMgDZBIKGOD49l3NK1s_DQ3gmy50JUNxMPtCyVLCWhrxeslbwYSezuolDIo0YYajo3c18IXjN6hB0-Yj/s320/Noogenesis%20pad.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: large;">NOOGENESIS</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Computational Biology</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex M. Vikoulov</span></strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Foreword by Antonin Tuynman, PhD,</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release Date: March 30, 2020, Kindle Edition, Vol.:184 pages</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group, Burlingame, California; USA, </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9781733426190</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XLPWZT" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small;">Buy eBook on Amazon</span></a></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; 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font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From TECHNOCULTURE</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">: The Rise of Man (Book II): </span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"We all are internal dynamic energy of the Universe – and it’s not even a metaphor – there would be no dynamics whatsoever in the absence of us subjective participants. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">This 'participatory realism' I call </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">‘Experiential Realism’ </em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">is
best captured by interpretations nested in the Copenhagen Interpretation camp
while Many Worlds, Objective Collapse and Pilot Wave attempt to 'objectify' it.
Years ago, Many Worlds interpretation was making more sense to me up until I
gradually drifted to the Copenhagen camp. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">Our 'transactional' world acts something like a
probabilistic processing, procedurally generated computer simulation, or a
virtual reality. This cybernetic model, or the</span><em style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;"> ‘Noocentric Model’</em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">, would account for the
time-tested problems of non-locality, superposition, particle-wave duality,
quantum tunneling, retrocausality, and all other weirdness in quantum studies
that Einstein pronounced were far too 'spooky' for him to
swallow. Nonetheless, quantum mechanics remains the most mathematically
precise framework for how natural phenomena behave.</span><span style="color: #424242; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">" </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJh8QBzkQmk1j1s2yOkml2MTbTue44cbbPeX-9k-srEve-qu2l8TH7tFxd6HSBLK2mOXJDlsfBuw_syIQ2N7_mjYp06ro5RR8AQm7HrW6LXlpJ_pS0WEMFQR0lIsM-awp3usEXXxSXiL40tPp5M8JxigKgii9qWwGmO4ZiHNb_1DWpMQOu5OM-HuF/s1200/TC%20Quote.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJh8QBzkQmk1j1s2yOkml2MTbTue44cbbPeX-9k-srEve-qu2l8TH7tFxd6HSBLK2mOXJDlsfBuw_syIQ2N7_mjYp06ro5RR8AQm7HrW6LXlpJ_pS0WEMFQR0lIsM-awp3usEXXxSXiL40tPp5M8JxigKgii9qWwGmO4ZiHNb_1DWpMQOu5OM-HuF/w640-h334/TC%20Quote.jpg" width="640" /></a><i></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLbwRhENO8lCs_UgUykxrgcPgh8_f8qcQRFVv1LBXDzmDCwivPIGYzCDGtOytheeIrG5kq2EUAqRmCLgBsuRR-JZ10KI2iKKlKxR7gfHrXYrVSySPrmfu2Cvv5mw8oyCOGSk8S4S_tvmAuKRzuntgPtRtKVlzeH69xMywzk65HfiQ7O-v84PopAan/s1595/mock-00056.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1595" data-original-width="1595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLbwRhENO8lCs_UgUykxrgcPgh8_f8qcQRFVv1LBXDzmDCwivPIGYzCDGtOytheeIrG5kq2EUAqRmCLgBsuRR-JZ10KI2iKKlKxR7gfHrXYrVSySPrmfu2Cvv5mw8oyCOGSk8S4S_tvmAuKRzuntgPtRtKVlzeH69xMywzk65HfiQ7O-v84PopAan/s320/mock-00056.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: large;">TECHNOCULTURE</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">The Rise of Man</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex M. Vikoulov</span></strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release Date: September 9, 2020, Kindle Edition, Vol.:200 pages</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group, Burlingame, California; USA, </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9781733426169</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: red; 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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From The Cybernetic Singularity</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">: The Syntellect Emergence (Book III): </span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"With distributed cybernetic immortality in place and access to any full-sensory VR experience limited only by your imagination, you're a Cybergod! </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Immortality will become possible with exocortex technologies when our
minds effectively migrate to the Metaverse. And you can immerse into VR experience
of any human ever lived, or that of imaginary scenarios or of any creature you
want to embody as an avatar. In fact, that's what has already happened and if
you believe that we are one singular consciousness, your experience as a human
is just that: a simulation on another level.</span><span style="color: #424242; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: white; 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font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vNmrJjqkhjF_i3CYQyMo-HY-71GOOiy9wdMj9Izb3YpYQ8n4wUWY-HgLVFLWtPGjF95VbFs6oxGLSICezIKBKsuj9v2rO_jDyDLAuAb2QmaDSSoLM8V9gXoF0vt-djI-M4tymShLvvKbA_Wq8_juC8M-_4MFh5S1A5Jz7B718nVR9C0u5Ws2WdvD/s1600/mock-00602%20(3).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vNmrJjqkhjF_i3CYQyMo-HY-71GOOiy9wdMj9Izb3YpYQ8n4wUWY-HgLVFLWtPGjF95VbFs6oxGLSICezIKBKsuj9v2rO_jDyDLAuAb2QmaDSSoLM8V9gXoF0vt-djI-M4tymShLvvKbA_Wq8_juC8M-_4MFh5S1A5Jz7B718nVR9C0u5Ws2WdvD/s320/mock-00602%20(3).png" width="271" /></a></i></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;">The Cybernetic Singularity</span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">The Syntellect Emergence</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex M. Vikoulov</span></strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Foreword by Antonin Tuynman, PhD,</span> </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release Date: January 10, 2021, Kindle Edition, Vol.:255 pages</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group, Burlingame, California; USA, </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9781733426176</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From THEOGENESIS</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion (Book IV): </span></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"Like a tail-chasing Ouroboros, we can infer Universal Mind, which is just another name for self-observing universal entity evolving towards the Omega Singularity. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">Evolutionary emergence
by self-organization is how the Universe works where small and simple things
self-organize into larger emergent things. Your mind is a perfect example of
that. Similarly, the power of neural-network-like Universe is in its massive
connectivity –</span><i style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;"> </i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">both forward and backward in time. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">Arguably, there is
no known natural constraint on what portion of the Universe can exponentially
self-organize into freewill systems like us humans. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">All the energy in the Universe can be
potentially converted into a single conscious system that is itself a network
of conscious systems</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: justify;">. Given enough time, whatever can happen will
eventually happen. With this basic assumption, universal scale consciousness
has occurred somewhere ahead of us in space-time. If it’s possible, it’s
inevitable. The existence of retrocausality time loops reveals to us that, in
fact, this inevitable future is co-creating us right now, just as we are
co-creating it.</span><span style="color: #424242; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV0KRnlgD5eouamsSmdXSo8Fm35oyCJGVGx_cuUAuugIUjWbex5Q2bb_L6m2Gm0HV25G3wADhHqRQApFlGLBEUGle72Jso1wy0xQrIEWalw6m7CilELwIsF1adDKKopS726TIKmT6vpbRSR-lBu0K0DdBCPsSLsz4kBuIBZYLsr3YrbmKHl7b1xqOp/s1200/Theogenesis_Quote%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV0KRnlgD5eouamsSmdXSo8Fm35oyCJGVGx_cuUAuugIUjWbex5Q2bb_L6m2Gm0HV25G3wADhHqRQApFlGLBEUGle72Jso1wy0xQrIEWalw6m7CilELwIsF1adDKKopS726TIKmT6vpbRSR-lBu0K0DdBCPsSLsz4kBuIBZYLsr3YrbmKHl7b1xqOp/w640-h334/Theogenesis_Quote%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></i></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /></i></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0ggea4dR8L-HglU0WGQcmiygEm9hTxGspVKlI5Fmpwp06GzLYqT0_BPGQw6XLmkYQepMstklG4XI8EuGy-pYMAgJfoJOjC8P4C4wnZUIZDO0kVcSQRQVnVaZb6QyxyxIeQBnnBkpevM7ElBcbmbnaBJvgggjFrpbBMPyo6CPKrn2-IF2kLnO0lUk/s1600/Theogenesis_eBook.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0ggea4dR8L-HglU0WGQcmiygEm9hTxGspVKlI5Fmpwp06GzLYqT0_BPGQw6XLmkYQepMstklG4XI8EuGy-pYMAgJfoJOjC8P4C4wnZUIZDO0kVcSQRQVnVaZb6QyxyxIeQBnnBkpevM7ElBcbmbnaBJvgggjFrpbBMPyo6CPKrn2-IF2kLnO0lUk/s320/Theogenesis_eBook.png" width="271" /></a></i></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: large;">THEOGENESIS</span></span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Transdimensional Propagation<br />& Universal Expansion</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex M. Vikoulov</span></strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release Date: October 1, 2021, Kindle Edition, Vol.:211 pages</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group, Burlingame, California; USA. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ISBN: </span></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">9781733426183</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="background-color: white; 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font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From </span></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Omega Singularity</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><i> (Book V): </i></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">"Y</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">our future timelines are constantly quantum computationally extrapolated from your present temporal singularity, the Theta Point. And the most optimal timeline is retrocausally projected from the seemingly infinitely distant future, but in actuality the hyperdimension of Omega Singularity... Even though this timeline is perhaps not yet fully realized through experience, perhaps only approximated, it’s being constantly updated via feedback originating from the Theta Point of your experiential self. In any case, the reality swath channel is always open, this 'reality wormhole' is vacillating as your temporal singularity passes through it between the Alpha and Omega points as the origin and destination are eternally connected. It also makes more sense to place the source of this omnidimensional matrix at the Omega Singularity. One may think of the prosaic analogy of electric current that simultaneously needs both start- and endpoints in order to flow. This conceptualization of divine connection manifests in everyday synchronicities and uncanny improbabilities of life itself."</span></p></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXN2pFhFNNyHytTK6lkUgMgFqO9Su44y7KXeO1ysIhwylCqPs5EjBff_Uo0IDSilB6ch_BXoaQZWA_tpM6_8vQWrX1aT6dekUGvKl0UX1HJQ0-Tgdh5s_UHq7PdpPlczC8aXXXYbGM8UJ0EGgltU8E0ycL9IeGAhaaoYXSjnvT-HpuDSYkDYwpOjdn/s1200/OMG.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1200" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXN2pFhFNNyHytTK6lkUgMgFqO9Su44y7KXeO1ysIhwylCqPs5EjBff_Uo0IDSilB6ch_BXoaQZWA_tpM6_8vQWrX1aT6dekUGvKl0UX1HJQ0-Tgdh5s_UHq7PdpPlczC8aXXXYbGM8UJ0EGgltU8E0ycL9IeGAhaaoYXSjnvT-HpuDSYkDYwpOjdn/w640-h390/OMG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRljuRQYJ3OlokWneoGnVM6HpV7e_a9sr-XIaIsp_bDnTFFtGdyK4OhhjInBz64kCCMIzKNZohBptHbu7ShAMHm8sfaTIAqGx7BtIi1zc3Fxu2fBwaxn2ZVzQZd8ZWUeGH8kTOCRzqtRgfJT_uU3Q-LZ4OsD5MNxDFOfVTGCeFKBEhTNfD3Vv5zsIX/s1600/Omega_Singularity_Kindle_eBook.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRljuRQYJ3OlokWneoGnVM6HpV7e_a9sr-XIaIsp_bDnTFFtGdyK4OhhjInBz64kCCMIzKNZohBptHbu7ShAMHm8sfaTIAqGx7BtIi1zc3Fxu2fBwaxn2ZVzQZd8ZWUeGH8kTOCRzqtRgfJT_uU3Q-LZ4OsD5MNxDFOfVTGCeFKBEhTNfD3Vv5zsIX/s320/Omega_Singularity_Kindle_eBook.png" width="271" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Omega Singularity</span></span></strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Universal Mind <br />& The Fractal Multiverse</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex M. Vikoulov</span></strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #818181; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release Date: January 15, 2022, Kindle Edition, Vol.:149 pages</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group, Burlingame, California; USA, </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ISBN: </span></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;">9798985403541</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; 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line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke"><em class="ke"><em class="kb"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;">Keywords:</span></b><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-style: normal;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cybernetic Theory of Mind, </i></span></span><i style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Theory of Everything, Quantum Cosmology, Computational Physics, Holographic Principle, fractal multiverse, cybergod, theosophy, eschatology, mind over substrates, </span></i></em></em></em><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Evolutionary Cybernetics, Philosophy of Mind, Quantum Theory, Physics of Time, Futurism, Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Simulation Metaphysics, phenomenology, Theory of Everything, Syntellect Hypothesis, science of consciousness, theories of consciousness, Computational Biology, quantum mechanics, multiverse, quantum information theory, quantum gravity, quantum physics, non-local consciousness, QM interpretations, fundamental laws of Nature</i></span></p><em class="ke"><em class="ke"><em class="kb"><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">*Image Credits: Shutterstock, Ecstadelic Media</span></i></p></em></em></em></div></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-43850491553321528812022-01-29T12:45:00.048-08:002022-01-31T00:53:28.084-08:00The Omega Singularity: The Cosmological Projector of All Possible Timelines<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG6m3wbKszc0lrXopyaHbITfj_zlbiwvRd6MuWLgCex1MlOeUb6JaQK3dAPbRvxvYS29Kv1MFEJv30nC3b2lxMivUZy--IVRzfky30N07kJuh2Ca0r5M6iklZI_OqDNLa46oO8shwK3cTwtuIiWCasQrYV3xwz_XAAyse70Ovx-7AJtujuWKU4-TII=s1200" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG6m3wbKszc0lrXopyaHbITfj_zlbiwvRd6MuWLgCex1MlOeUb6JaQK3dAPbRvxvYS29Kv1MFEJv30nC3b2lxMivUZy--IVRzfky30N07kJuh2Ca0r5M6iklZI_OqDNLa46oO8shwK3cTwtuIiWCasQrYV3xwz_XAAyse70Ovx-7AJtujuWKU4-TII=w640-h334" width="640" /></a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">“From the light came
light, and from the dark came darkness, but from whence did they appear? Yin
and Yang combine to create all things, but which is the source, and which was
born from it?” </span></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-style: italic; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">―<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Qu Yuan</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></span></span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.333333px; text-align: left;">verything is Code. Immersive [self-]simulacra. We all are waves on the surface of eternal ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness in motion, self-referential creative divine force expressing oneself in an exhaustible variety of forms and patterns throughout the multiverse of universes. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">“I am” the Alpha, Theta & Omega </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.333333px; text-align: left;">– </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">the ultimate self-causation, self-reflection and
self-manifestation instantiated by mathematical codes and projective fractal geometry. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In my new volume of <i>The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</i> series </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <i>The Omega Singularity: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"> we discuss </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;">a number of perspectives on quantum cosmology, computational physics, theosophy and eschatology. How could dimensionality be transcended yet again? What is the fractal multiverse? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;">Is our universe a "metaverse" in a universe up? What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? Why does it matter to us? What is the Omega Singularity?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #424242; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Here's the Table of Contents of the book:</span> </span></i></p><p><i><b><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Introduction</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">1. The Holographic Principle: The Binary Code Projected from the Omega Singularity</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">2. The Fractal Multiverse: Scalar Partitioning of the Universes</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">3. Solo Mission of Self-Discovery</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">4. Transcending Biology: You As Cybergod</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">5. Quantum Immortality: God’s Avatars</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">6. Computational Physics: Scientific Heresy or Undeniable Truth?</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">7. The Consciousness Thesis and Experiential Realism: A New Ontological Argument</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">8. Subjective Digital Reality: Mind Over Substrates</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">9. Hyper-Perspectivism: Connect the Dots in Your Own Unique Way</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">10. Your Future Timeline</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">11. Universal Mind: The Web of Entangled Minds</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">12. The Omega Singularity: The Source of Everything Including Our “Solid State Matrix”</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">13. Experiential Nirvana</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">14. The Gamemaster: Switching to the God Mode at Will</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Conclusion</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Appendix A. Tenets of The Cybernetic Theory of Mind: The Five Foundational Axioms</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Glossary of Terms</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Acknowledgements</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">About the Author</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;">Bibliography</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px; margin-top: 12pt;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></i></p><div style="background: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">And here are five featured excerpts from different chapters of the book:</span></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From Chapter 2: The Fractal Multiverse: Scalar </span></i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Partitioning of the Universes:</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> </span>"</span></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">The fabric of reality is information-theoretic and quantized at the level of Planck scale space-time, according to current physics, and so too, is it quantized at the atomic level in terms of nanotech applications. Perhaps, one bit of information corresponding to one Planck constant could currently appear like a viable conceptual framework for our observables but it doesn’t mean that a '</span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">vibrating </em><i style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">string,'</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"> wouldn’t reveal a galaxy or another lower-level structure in the universe down upon closer examination."</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i>From </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i>Chapter 5: Quantum Immortality: God's Avatars:</i><span> </span>"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">Quantum reality is not constrained to the realm of ultra-small. In a certain sense, we are all quantum wavicles meaning that a version of you can wildly vary from one observer to another. That’s where I’ve come to realize that observer-systemic alternate timelines are true parallel universes."</span></span></p><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></i><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzdAKEWSHrz2Y5VJRfZw3cZHrhWCEhh3vv8ASXcepdNXGvMquxcWH3xz7_8krHdfTxLfqbqQBIfHJVJQabru2FyT-haaFBv67GayS3dhbly_synagccRVYYtGlzBMj62XAbLZNci_PFemT_-bukJjtq6h9dlRMe9o834CZOoH-dZjD8NPOIBchrMDf=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="611" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzdAKEWSHrz2Y5VJRfZw3cZHrhWCEhh3vv8ASXcepdNXGvMquxcWH3xz7_8krHdfTxLfqbqQBIfHJVJQabru2FyT-haaFBv67GayS3dhbly_synagccRVYYtGlzBMj62XAbLZNci_PFemT_-bukJjtq6h9dlRMe9o834CZOoH-dZjD8NPOIBchrMDf=w611-h611" width="611" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><i>From Chapter 8: Subjective Digital Reality: Mind Over Substrates:</i> "</span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">In biology, once you start to ponder which is more
important bottom-up genetics or top-down epigenetics, you would eventually
stumble upon Bohmian 'holistic' dynamics </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">that may prompt us to assign the primacy of top-down influences in the
hierarchical structure of reality itself. </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Top-down processing is known
as conceptually-driven processing and, in the case of our human perceptions, is
affected by our 'reality filters': expectations, existing beliefs, and
understanding."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i>From Chapter 12: The Omega Singularity: The Source of Everything, Including Our "Solid State Matrix":</i> "</span><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">Computational Physics offers a remarkably
accurate and, most importantly, formalized, and thus empirically verifiable 'realization' of certain ideas by Teilhard de Chardin about the finite nature
of the Universe, its properties, its evolution and its growing complexity."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><i>From Chapter 14: The Gamemaster: Switching to the God Mode at Will:</i> "</span><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;">Assume for a moment that you live in analogous natural
world without the higher power, whilst the arrow of our epigenetic evolution
points to a time when we are going to take the creator’s righteous place in
custom virtual universes of our own design. Would it be too hubristic of us to
think that in the entire history of the Omniverse, if the concept of 'history' is even relevant at all, we are the very first species to accomplish this?"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">P.S. Watch the official trailer: </i><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><i><a href="https://youtu.be/i7zglOgFCvc"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;">https://youtu.be/i7zglOgFCvc</span></a></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="325" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i7zglOgFCvc" width="482" youtube-src-id="i7zglOgFCvc"></iframe></span></div><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><div><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MTQCMT5" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEja8Jn7WxB1Y_cepTOgxiP8Nju2fZh98Q44kHXqeDC_lP0pSlmPDhv7FdHL1_nYziYa40Anb3fMPcdY6bc6nchFLMiAsnf-L2gtnBaVG3zoahHJMO9qxbn9Qq8LCDvkT7IETWWCkcqWwwi_cTCC2H_CksDzOVkhU2_BviTvaJjmBhpwvurZkRH2ubhm=s320" width="271" /></a></div><div><br /></div></span><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: start;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">*The Omega Singularity: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse (The Cybernetic Theory of Mind Series, Book 5) by Alex M. Vikoulov is now available as a Kindle eBook on Amazon:</span></span></em></em><div><i style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MTQCMT5"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MTQCMT5</span></a></i><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></em></em></em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">**Looking for a printed version? I'd suggest to get my magnum opus The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution (2020), available as paperback and hardcover (as well as eBook, audiobook and autographed copy): </span></span></em></em></em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</span></a></span></em></em></em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><br /></em></em></em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;">Keywords:</span></b><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> </span></em><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>cosmological projector, possible timelines, Yin and Yang, binary code, Metaverse, virtual worlds, </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cybernetic Theory of Mind, </i></span></span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theory of Everything, Quantum Cosmology, Computational Physics, Holographic Principle, fractal multiverse, omniverse, Omega Singularity, Qu Yuan, cybergod, theosophy, eschatology, quantum immortality, consciousness thesis, Experiential Realism, subjectivity, Ontological Argument, mind over substrates, universal mind, quantum reality, digital reality, quantum wavicle, parallel universe, God mode</i></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Image Credits: Shutterstock, Ecstadelic Media</i></p></em></em></em></div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></div></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com5Burlingame, CA, USA37.5778696 -122.348099.2676357638211542 -157.50434 65.888103436178852 -87.19184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-61038122006053464962021-12-22T19:02:00.000-08:002022-01-28T16:10:07.218-08:00Cybernetic Immortality: Why Our Cyberhuman Future is Closer Than You Think<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK59V_TrKdMVpy3LmRvtcMmnSCszJFUNt5BIyQgFRpO7ag2GXR2SVXR892Ck3EMeoPTBd_wYqSLZ0xJ4PUq1c_tZzXjKOjtjFHI_RLzstKJnbjqkKyHm5_4pOOw9f5F4kPP38dicFdQlU/s1200/Cloud+Upload.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK59V_TrKdMVpy3LmRvtcMmnSCszJFUNt5BIyQgFRpO7ag2GXR2SVXR892Ck3EMeoPTBd_wYqSLZ0xJ4PUq1c_tZzXjKOjtjFHI_RLzstKJnbjqkKyHm5_4pOOw9f5F4kPP38dicFdQlU/w640-h334/Cloud+Upload.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="verdana"><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div></font></div><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="verdana"><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: justify;">"We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves." </i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="verdana">-Norbert Wiener</font></i></blockquote></blockquote></div></font></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="6"><b>B</b></font>y definition, posthumanism (I choose to call it <i>‘cyberhumanism’</i>) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. By then, mind uploading could become a reality with gradual neuronal replacement, rapid advancements in Strong AI, massively parallel computing, and nanotechnology allowing us to directly connect our brains to the Cloud-based infrastructure of the Global Brain. Via interaction with our AI assistants, the GB will know us better than we know ourselves in all respects, so mind-transfer, or rather “mind migration,” for billions of enhanced humans would be seamless, sometime by mid-century.</div></font><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;">I hear this mantra over and over again – we don’t know what consciousness is. Clearly, there’s no consensus here but in the context of topic discussed, I would summarize my views, as follows: Consciousness is non-local, quantum computational by nature. There’s only one Universal Consciousness. We individualize our conscious awareness through the filter of our nervous system, our “local” mind, our very inner subjectivity, but consciousness itself, the self in a big sense, our “core” self is universal, and knowing it through experience has been called enlightenment, illumination, awakening, or transcendence, through the ages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By 2040, mind-uploading may become a norm and a fact of life with a “critical mass” of uploads and cybernetic immortality. Any container with a sufficiently integrated network of information patterns, with a certain optimal complexity, especially complex dynamical systems with biological or artificial brains (say, the coming AGIs) could be filled with consciousness at large in order to host an individual “reality cell,” “unit,” or a “node” of consciousness. This kind of individuated unit of consciousness is always endowed with free will within the constraints of the applicable set of rules (“physical laws”), influenced by the larger consciousness system dynamics. Isn’t too naïve to presume that Universal Consciousness would instantiate phenomenality only in the form of <i>“bio”</i>-logical avatars?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even today, we all are contributing to the global digital archives of the Syntellect – every time you upload a photo or make a call – you leave a digital footprint in cyberspace. It might be hard to grasp for some, but we, like fish, swim in this ocean of consciousness, completely oblivious of the medium. Consciousness to humans, as Cloud is to computers, we have always been part of this mind-space network, technocultural “hive mind,” each of us being a product of our societal “virtual reality.” And yet, we are entitled to certain degrees of freedom in order to evolve our conscious minds thanks to network interactivity at our ontological level.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica">The most probable mainstream non-invasive way to transfer human consciousness in the intermediate future, with initial stages in the 2030s, could be the convergence of optogenetics, nanotechnologies, neuroengineering, immersive computing, Cloud exocortex and an array of neurotechnologies allowing to connect our wetware directly to the Cloud. I see this mind migration to the Cloud as a gradual decades-long process of incremental neuronal replacements, exocortices, interlinking with AGIs and the Global Brain, some presently unseen trials and errors, but overall more or less a non-invasive and seamless process, at the end of which, we all will morph into “substrate-independent” immortal digital minds living in the cyber-paradise of our own design. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica"><br /></font></div><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;">It may take a few short years for the Global Brain to read and understand you completely, but by the end of that process you won’t even need a physical body anymore. “One-session mind uploading” may be necessary only for redundancy of consciousness transfer process in order to ensure that there are no discrepancies between your physical brain patterns and digital mind, “to sync the mind,” so to speak. You may become 100% digital, superintelligent info-being, once you choose to. From the evolutionary standpoint, our biological brains are a bridge to post-biological artificial superbrains. So, humans have to go through a brief cyborgism phase first, before entering the infomorphism stage of our evolutionary development.</div></font><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica">Initially, each of us will have a personal exocortex in the Cloud, the third non-biological “de-cerebral” hemisphere, which will be in constant communication with the other two biological brain hemispheres. Cloud-computing exocortices will be “us” in the ever-dominating cyberspace. The exocortex would be able to eavesdrop on the activity of both biological hemispheres via neural nanobots. </font><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">At some point, this “third hemisphere,” will have a threshold information content and intimate knowledge of your biology, personality and other physical world attributes in order to seamlessly integrate with your persona as a holistic entity. As your original biological wetware fades away in comparison to the more capable exocortex, perhaps, in time, billionfold more capable due to its exponential development, the exocortex, this digital mindware of yours, would smoothly assume all functions of the biological brain circa its “expiration” date.</span></div><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the transitional period of a few decades, people won’t be confined to one physical body. Eventually, people will be able to form identities in numerous substrates, such as using a “platform diverse body” (a future body that is wearable/usable in the physical world but also exists in computational environments and virtual systems) to route their identity across the biosphere, cybersphere, Metaverse and other virtual environments. But gradually, our minds will migrate to cyberspace with endless custom-built virtual universes. And your mind-pattern will persist there. By any measure, it still will be you!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica">The physical world will be somewhat left behind </font>–<font face="helvetica"> it would look almost static for our accelerated mentation </font>– as cyberhuman minds, we will process information thousands of times faster, so if you have extended yourself in cyberspace so much so that you can be rightfully called a cyberhuman, your thinking has now accelerated to such an extent that one calendar day may last decades or even centuries of 'subjective time.' Imagine how this new generation of cyberhumans would perceive the unenhanced part of human population – the slower thinking creatures of the physical world would look almost static to them, perhaps like houseplants to us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Akin to evolution of life from unicellularity to multicellularity during the Cambrian explosion, we call this theoretical view on the impending meta-system transition – uploading humanity, consequently morphing into one singular Global Mind and unlocking a new, grander reality – <i>'The Syntellect Hypothesis'</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica">We are goal-oriented and transcendence-seeking beings. I believe that one's ultimate goal should be reaching the Simulation Singularity, i.e., engineered godhood. Consider this: with cybernetic immortality and access to any ultra-realistic full-sensory VR experience limited only by your imagination, you're Cybergod! You can immerse into VR experience of any human ever lived, or that of imaginary scenarios or of any creature you want to embody as an avatar. In fact, that's what has already happened and if you believe that we are one singular consciousness, as I do, your experience as a human is just that: a simulation on another level. On that level, we're already immortal <i>(cf. the Quantum Immortality Hypothesis; the Digital Pantheism Argument). </i>Dying is like waking up someone bigger. As Rumi once said: <i>“I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was human. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”</i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica"><br /></font></div><font face="helvetica"><div style="text-align: justify;">As transhumanists, however, we aim at the so-called continuity of subjectivity by the means of advanced technologies. Death in a common sense of the word becomes optional and cybernetic immortality is within our reach during our lifetimes. Enjoy this journey, my fellow human, since once at "your own" Simulation Singularity, you set yourself for perhaps trillions of years of subjective novelty up until you'd like to immerse so much so that you willfully forget who you are in actuality and invent a new level of the game.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">-Alex Vikoulov</i></div><br style="color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="color: #424242;"><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">*Image Credit: Getty Images</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #424242;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #424242; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1Mp7dJ5FGxGD_Ii1uE2GIhtNDojl3PdZpsU6xd6nlCCiXpkdmnY5GwIe1aUC0RzyG3BGGpG6_pLAkFp1vmtG_BVJzxJgE1keF-2XwP9ANB7g3IVFQDKrQvNeXfSnIbHT9-Cg5hF1LOw/s3000/Front+Cover+7+x+10+inches.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2100" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1Mp7dJ5FGxGD_Ii1uE2GIhtNDojl3PdZpsU6xd6nlCCiXpkdmnY5GwIe1aUC0RzyG3BGGpG6_pLAkFp1vmtG_BVJzxJgE1keF-2XwP9ANB7g3IVFQDKrQvNeXfSnIbHT9-Cg5hF1LOw/w140-h200/Front+Cover+7+x+10+inches.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><i><font color="#424242">**Adapted from </font><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM"><font color="#9e9e9e">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution</font></a><font color="#424242"> with full discussion of Cybernetic Immortality in the book.</font></i></div></div></div></div></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-29590875571790166262021-11-16T20:55:00.051-08:002022-01-28T14:44:40.994-08:00Evolutionary Cybernetics 101: Gaia 2.0, Web 3.0<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1400" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEii6UvQdv1JBrbjYDAu2-LC0dDaOWayk6mO0ao_ENB4fKmVF0YK717H6bmkmURYFx_YScib1n5yBmQMXUM0oQkVjPN_To-HTYZeHy4gPTSuQEENaUZ0A3LmJ-mc8heL9CYV27a0Vs_x9uW0-g4Tt4dIGEwixez6gpSJKH8q54HWxzft7SlDA5gOapkz=w640-h360" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">that perpetuate themselves.” </span></span></span><span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">―</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society</span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-efefb8e1-7fff-d951-1d5a-4d0f3d57a5b6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></blockquote><span id="docs-internal-guid-efefb8e1-7fff-d951-1d5a-4d0f3d57a5b6"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">In</span></b> my recent online interactions, I was asked by Arend van Campen and Jelel Ezzine to define cybernetics in my work. Here I decided to expand on my explanation a little bit and provide you a few useful links. For a basic definition, cybernetics can be defined as a multidisciplinary approach to study evolutionary processes and feedback-driven systems of control between animal and machine. My chosen field, evolutionary cybernetics as well as my chosen philosophical discipline, philosophy of mind, both are aimed to investigate this new human-machine paradigm. </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Influenced by pioneers in cybernetics Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson and John von Neumann, my own contributions to the field of cybernetics as well as philosophy of mind are such concepts and ideas as the Syntellect Emergence, the Chrysalis Conjecture, Ontological Holism, the Omega Singularity, Gaia 2.0., Holo syntellectus, AGI Naturalization Protocol, Exponential Evolution, Cyber-Bliss Engineering, Quantum Neo-Empiricism, Cybertheism, D-Theory of Time, Infomorph Commonality, Neo-Transcendentalism, Experiential Realism, the Conscious Instant Hypothesis, Digital Presentism, Multi-Ego Pantheistic Solipsism, Hyper-Perspectivism, the Temporal Singularity, Cybernetic Immortality, the Noocentric Model, the Omega Point Cosmo-Teleology, Cyberhumanism to name just a few. </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evolutionary Cybernetics deals with the global meta-trends and the phenomenon of radical emergence on a planetary scale. For example, one of the central themes of my cybernetic philosophy is the Syntellect Hypothesis which refers to a phase transition of a complex intelligent system to self-awareness of a living, conscious superorganism when intellectual synergy of its components reaches threshold complexity to become one supermind. This metamorphosis is associated with emergence of higher-order self-awareness and dimensionality of a new consciousness structure. As a bio-species merging with its advanced technology, human-machine civilization is now on the verge of the Syntellect Emergence, becoming one Global Mind. The Metaverse, "cybernetic" Web 3.0, now represents an opening gateway to transcension of an emergent syntellect. </p></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nature is cybernetic. We are the most powerful agents of change of the planet itself. And we're part of the larger reality beyond what we can see and measure. Our world is a simulation of our own creation – self-simulation, if you will – our eyes are not only viewers but projectors, too. Phenomenal mind is resolutely computational and necessarily qualitative. Local consciousness is emergent, while non-local consciousness is imminent. Material worlds, dimensional realities come and go, but fundamental consciousness is ever-present. A new kind of pantheism presented in my latest works, cybertheism, implies that there's really one player, playing this game of life on many levels simultaneously. In my newly-released volume <i>THEOGENESIS</i>, we discuss quantum cosmology, posthumanism, cybernetic philosophy and its pantheistic underpinnings; we further delve into the physics of information, otherwise known as pancomputationalism, digital physics, or [quantum] computational physics.</p></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">My new documentary <i>Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind</i> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(2021) is an IMDb-accredited film (rated TV-PG) on the</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> nature of consciousness and my take on reverse engineering of our thinking in order to implement it in cybernetics and advanced AI systems. As an evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind, I’m currently developing the Cybernetic Theory of Mind, an advanced multidisciplinary ontological model, my theory of everything.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If interested, my works are available as articles and essays on <a href="https://ecstadelic.net"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ecstadelic.net</span></a>, eBook series, printed paperbacks and hardcovers, audiobooks and documentary films:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SYNTELLECT HYPOTHESIS (Magnum Opus, 2019; 2020e): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution"</span></a> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieLPSrPPygcHGevEoRTGHNsjS3GU4Jtr7Gx5gNMGnsV3OnR4bD07f9qImZ8W83yHm-GpHjWOl84aWQy3VfEQnhotK9aa3l1D1e05WESy1QjuL6fjOK2AZ3CTo2yVvQP4SmX7mf2YTYK92OhuyaDXJGppW4trUkuSvHTCiITef1ixM_3LxBgV08qnvR=w640-h426" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION (eBook Series, 2019): <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R1P2N86" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S3QZPQT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WJLTQGM/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081DN7W1K" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality"</span></a></span> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">THE CYBERNETIC THEORY OF MIND (eBook Series, 2022): <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XLPWZT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HC9385J" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence,"</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F858NBZ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"THEOGENESIS: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion,"</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MTQCMT5" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Omega Singularity: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse"</span></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">CONSCIOUSNESS: EVOLUTION OF THE MIND (Documentary, 2021): </span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/-ydTVg2l6GM" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Official Trailer</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> | </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><a href=" https://vimeo.com/ondemand/339083" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Full-Length Film on Vimeo on Demand</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> | </span><a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/613341/consciousness-evolution-of-the-mind" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Full-Length Film on TUBI (free w/ads)</span></a></p><span style="font-family: arial; 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text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As you may know, I’m fairly active on social media platforms. For example, I personally manage public forums on FB and subreddit:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaverse: Cybernetic Web 3: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SyntellectEmergence/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; 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<i><span style="color: #666666;">"When we look through the other end of the telescope, however, we can see a different pattern. We can make out what I call the One Mind — not a subdivision of consciousness, but the overarching, inclusive dimension to which all the mental components of all individual minds, past, present, and future belong. I capitalize the One Mind to distinguish it from the single, one mind that each individual appears to possess." -Larry Dossey</span></i></div>
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In his book <i>“The Global Brain”</i> (2000) Howard Bloom argues that hyperconnected humans and machines resemble a lot the neurons of the "global brain," and the coming Internet of Things (IoT) with trillions of sensors around the planet will become effectively the nervous system of Earth. According to the Gaia hypothesis by James Lovelock, we have always been an integral part of this "Meta-Mind," collective consciousness, global adaptive and self-regulating system while tapping into vast resources of information pooling and at the same time having a "shared hallucination," we call reality.</div>
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With exponential technological advances we become increasingly and intimately interconnected. As technologist and co-founder of <i>WIRED</i> magazine Kevin Kelly says: <i>“Within the next 5,000 days of the Internet, we'll create a global neural network, which for a lack of a better word, we can call the ONE,”</i> a living conscious entity, a single mind of billions of hyperconnected individuals and smart machines with a whole array of sensory apparatus. Thus, the One will get a major eyesight upgrade when humans will get their first bionic Internet-enabled contact lenses. Even when we wage wars or have conflicting opinions, it's nothing less than the Global Mind having an internal dialogue, testing different ideas and hypotheses. It's like we sometimes have this dialogue with ourselves, weighing different options, pros and cons, having an “angel” on one shoulder and a “demon” on the other.</div>
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What kind of sensation would you experience when your brain is directly connected to this global hive mind? Sublime amplification, cognitive ecstasy -- cogno-ecstasis -- and new horizons of perception, all of which would result in expanded consciousness and the end of suffering from our human condition! Think about it: What really magnifies our human experience is when we share that experience, right? That's why we go to a movie theater, stadium or rave party. That's why we form communities, families, companies and other social groups.</div>
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Even though we are destined to become One Global Mind, so to speak, you'll always perceive yourself as an individual! It's an integral part of your subjective experience, i.e. consciousness. This novelty-producing, complexity-engendering <i>You</i>-niverse will create other various layers of "reality" and entities to differentiate yourself with but ultimately to network with. In a way, your consciousness would "snowball" into this Global Mind. You may gradually "upthink" your mind onto the Global Brain infrastructure, Cloud-based cognitive modules via ingestible nanobots or other neurotechnologies, which in effect will be your neural interface, connecting your wetware to the Web. Thus, the whole Web with its vast repository of knowledge and instant data sharing capabilities will become your synthetic neocortex, <i>'exocortex'.</i></div>
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As a hybrid being you'll still have a unique subjective perceptual experience. We're already hybrid thinking beings, anyway. We have two cerebral hemispheres "thinking in unison," and then we have our technologically-extended mind, according to Andy Clark's Extended Mind Hypothesis. All of which makes unique <i>YOU</i>. Even as billionfold augmented <i>YOU</i>, as one Global Mind, you'll be entitled to some kind of expanded subjective perception. So, logically speaking, your personality, identity and intelligence will be greatly enriched to the point that you can remember your "multiple" birthday parties, sexual partners, feelings of love, etc. As a super-being, you can also always suppress unwanted memories at will. As a super-being, you'll have globally distributed intelligence and may perceive many things at once.</div>
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It may take a few short years for the Global Brain to read and understand you completely, but by the end of that process you won't even need to be anchored to one physical body anymore. "One-session mind uploading" may be only necessary for redundancy of consciousness transfer process and to ensure there is no discrepancies between your physical and digital mind, "to sync the mind." You may become 100% digital, superintelligent info-being, if you choose to. However, humanity may first go through cyborgism, before entering the infomorph stage of our evolutionary development. The generation of cyborg-like transhumans with Cloud-based exocortices, merged with artificial brains and "attached" to the virtual Metaverse, a functional successor of today's Internet, will inevitably lead to the next generation of postbiological info-beings, substrate-independent <i>'infomorphs'</i>.</div>
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At a later stage, as we discuss in the essay <i>"Infomorph Commonality: Our Post-Singularity Future," </i>once we become advanced singular consciousness, only then, according to the <i>'Syntellect Hypothesis'</i>, we may encounter some extraterrestrial, or rather extradimensional, superintelligences that we can relate to at the level of "individual entities." This is going to be the whole new level of cosmic awareness, however beyond the scope of this essay.</div>
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Through cybernetically-mediated telepathy, some call <i>'Synthetic Telepathy'</i>, we'll most probably reinvent our communication. Verbal language will be gradually replaced with thoughts traveling at the speed of light (or faster). We're rapidly approaching a pivotal moment in our history, as many scientists refer to as the <i>'Technological Singularity'</i>, although my preferred term is the <i>'Cybernetic Singularity'</i>, when we may become so much more, and one version of it -- the singular planetary consciousness, <i>'Digital Gaia'</i>. Or are we already?</div>
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The first singularity, according to Kevin Kelly, occurred 50,000 years ago with the invention of language. Arguably, the invention of language gave early humans a huge evolutionary advantage over other hominid species. We're on the verge of the next technological singularity which will rewire the Global Brain with the IoT, when everything gets linked with everything else, and <i>MATTER BECOMES MIND.</i></div>
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No doubt, in the not-so-distant future we'll augment our intelligence millionfold, billionfold by merging with artificial intelligence and achieve Godlike state and abilities. As inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil writes in his 2005 book <i>The Singularity is Near</i>:<i>“...from there we'll spread our intelligence through the rest of the Universe... and the Universe essentially wakes up.” </i>Or techno-philosopher Jason Silva likes to say <i>“We’ll impregnate the Universe with our intelligence.”</i></div>
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As Terence McKenna puts it: <i>"Human history is a 25,000-year transition zone. Before you enter the zone, you're an animal. After you leave the zone, you're a god"</i>... not quite, rather a demigod, or more specifically an infomorph. In a way, we are already infomorphs, "embryonic infomorphs" to be more precise. You can only increase your infomorphity in this digital age by moving forward towards apotheosis -- cybernetic immortality, love, beauty, creativity, and expanding but not quite reaching other divine attributes -- omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence. At some point we'll be able to create myriad virtual worlds for research and entertainment. We love our imperfections so no matter how perfect we'll become we can explore this side of ourselves in virtualities. Well, we may be part of that simulated reality already!</div>
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In his famous <i>“Simulation Argument”</i> Nick Bostrom comes to a conclusion that <i>“We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation,” </i>and through logical reasoning he postulates: <i>"... at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) WE ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation."</i> According to Bostrom, chances are astronomically in favor of the simulated virtual reality universe which is so much easier to create than the “real physical universe.”</div>
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Digital philosopher Tom Campbell, the author of <i>"My big TOE"</i> says that the Virtual Reality model of the Universe is simply "better physics," which can explain most observable phenomena and give answers to "hard problems" of science and metaphysics. So, if we are simulated people, say "sentient holograms" in this Virtual Universe, we are part of some sort of sophisticated computer program of our posthuman descendants. But ultimately, <i>WE ARE ONE SINGULAR CONSCIOUSNESS,</i> possibly just one infomorph entity, actualizing its experience and computing itself through billions of lives. In a very real sense, we are low-dimensional <i>'bio'</i>-logical avatars of the greater cosmic mind.</div>
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By mid-century when the Singularity occurs we won't probably need the World's government any longer, as many of us envision. The globally distributed network of superintelligent machines and enhanced humans, the Global Mind, will govern our civilization, our planet(s) without borders, and beyond.</div>
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<i>*Original article first appeared on transhumanity.net on December 18, 2015 and later was republished as the first article on <a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-coming-new-global-mind1">EcstadelicNET</a> in Top Stories section on January 27, 2016.</i></div>
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Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-91059403266583394472021-09-27T20:40:00.026-07:002021-10-09T10:58:13.028-07:00Where Do We Fit in the Cosmic Scheme and Where Are We Headed?<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySQ2rbP5hZ7Rjrp92wzl82vJ8aUkOT3jewPlDN5vpUN5FE_WVaJije3StBl9OcynCOVJ5cfUHiQ5YbRC2frOztAe7cvGBcuzBtcUdyUemWWipvuwlMvjO3r2d-PQq1yB94fXoTiGjSh8/s1200/SelfDivinization.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySQ2rbP5hZ7Rjrp92wzl82vJ8aUkOT3jewPlDN5vpUN5FE_WVaJije3StBl9OcynCOVJ5cfUHiQ5YbRC2frOztAe7cvGBcuzBtcUdyUemWWipvuwlMvjO3r2d-PQq1yB94fXoTiGjSh8/w640-h334/SelfDivinization.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">"The Universe begins
to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">–</span></i><i style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">James Jeans</span></i></i></span></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>oday'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 </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"> 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 <i>'Theogenesis'</i> where we can rightly call ourselves cybergods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">In my new volume of <i>The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</i> series </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"> <i>THEOGENESIS: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion</i> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"> we discuss certain issues of existentialism and futurity:<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: black;">What might happen after the Cybernetic Singularity?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the fabric and ultimate nature of
reality? <span style="color: black;">Do we live in a simulated multiverse? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Can we refine our theological philosophies in light of new evidence?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">What would the
process of Theogenesis look like?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's the Table of Contents of the book:</span></p><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Introduction <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. Our Post-Singularity Future: Are We Destined to Become Cybergods? <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. Transcension: Exponential Miniaturization <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. Computational Physics: Reinterpreting Relativity <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4. Transcendental Cybernetics: The Ultimate Code of Reality <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">5. Universality of Computation <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6. Quantum Gravity: Quest for the Final Theory of Everything <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">7. The Shadow Multiverse: Parallel Space-Times, Dark Matter and Dark Energy <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">8. Ontological Holism: All is One, One is All <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">9. Why Materialism is a Flatlander Philosophy <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10. Seeking the Ultimate Truth: The Battle of Ideologies <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">11. Quantum Cosmology: From the Holographic Principle to the Fractal Multiverse <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">12. The Omega Singularity: Your Cosmic Self <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">13. The Axioms of Divinity: Cybertheistic Foundation <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">14. Experiential Matrix: A Playground of Subjectivity <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">15. Transcendent Realm: Redefining God <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">16. God of Spinoza: The Conscious Universe <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">17. A New Kind of Pantheism: The Cybertheism Argument <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">18. Are We Alone in the Universe? <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">19. The Chrysalis Conjecture: Our Second Womb <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Conclusion <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Appendix A. Tenets of The Cybernetic Theory of Mind: The Five Foundational Axioms <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Glossary of Terms <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Acknowledgements <br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">About the Author <br /></span></b><span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bibliography</span></b><b style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span> </span></b></span></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-top: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">And here are five featured excerpts from different chapters of the book. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">From Chapter 3: Computational Physics: Reinterpreting Relativity:</span></i> <span style="font-family: arial;">"To reconcile relativistic
physics, Computational Physics postulates that in an observer-centric reality,
spacetime is computed as if by using GPU computational resources: The faster
you move closer to the speed of light, the more you’re 'stretching yourself' in
space, basically speeding up at the expense of time, so time would naturally
slow when compared to 'static' observers. Conversely, if you don’t
use computational resources and don’t 'purchase' more speed by being still or
moving slowly, time 'ticks' at the 'normal' rate. The mathematics of
relativistic physics remains unchanged, what changes, though, is our
interpretation of what it means."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">From Chapter 4: Transcendental Cybernetics: The Ultimate Code of Reality: </i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">"</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">An ultimate whole-world simulation needs an ultimate computer, and Cyberneticism says that the Universe itself is the ultimate hypercomputer </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">in fact, the only computer. Furthermore, all the computations of the human world, including our brains, our laptops, our first quantum computers are mere simulacra of the greater computer. Each of us is a computational microcosm, and our minds are active participants in the cosmic evolution." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymGAUGrf990GbTb7JqBaN5PelPzQdbCyXtZscADrbvk4zt-244rbdVj2tozm2_2n1Jin2cS_G9b0W-1VcvWoVLSQ9WtdeHjBclNPtwRyNGozJPorHqp8n4cSXEVbudUWVtU-O_I4g6MA/s2048/Naked+Brain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymGAUGrf990GbTb7JqBaN5PelPzQdbCyXtZscADrbvk4zt-244rbdVj2tozm2_2n1Jin2cS_G9b0W-1VcvWoVLSQ9WtdeHjBclNPtwRyNGozJPorHqp8n4cSXEVbudUWVtU-O_I4g6MA/w609-h381/Naked+Brain.jpg" width="609" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><i style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From Chapter 7: The Shadow Multiverse: Parallel Space-Times, Dark Matter and Dark Energy:</span> </i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>"</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">Another experimental evidence pointing directly to the existence of
parallel universes comes from the famous ‘double-slit experiment” and its
advanced variation. As you may know, in this
experiment, an elementary particle, such as an electron, is being shot by an
apparatus in the direction of two slits that results in a certain pattern on a
screen behind – either as a tiny ball or an interference pattern as a wave –
depending on the method of measurement. When we’re not looking at the electron,
an interference pattern appears. This interference pattern is what really
catches our interest here: If we add two more slits, the interference pattern
becomes even more pronounced. What is really happening here? We can infer the 'shadow' electrons occupying certain locations in their respective parallel
universes and thus, they are probabilistically scattered, forming an
interference pattern (they interfere with their counterparts in parallel
universes). Should we start to observe, an 'actual' electron in the observer’s
universe of ours would be found hitting the wall at a distinct location.</span><span>"</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">From Chapter 14: Experiential Matrix: A Playground of Subjectivity: </i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="background-color: transparent;">"</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">Perhaps what would pull the rug from under physicalism
is a notion of ever deeper levels of abstraction that only minds can create and
perceive. Physicalists might make a concession by saying that information, now
widely accepted as fundamental, is physical but idealists would insist by
saying that information, conveyed by symbolism, originates only in the mind.
Intersubjectivity is a particularly great example of layered
abstractions, from memes to social institutions to collective unconscious well
beyond materiality. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">Subjective values, such as patriotism, and complex concepts are
inherently mental in nature."</span></span></p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: #3f3f3f; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">From Chapter 19: The Chrysalis Conjecture: Our Second Womb: </i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="background-color: transparent;">"</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">The whole symphony of existence arises from a set of
rules, and we are slowly uncovering them. In my view, we now start to bring to
light one of the deepest secrets of existence </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> the multiversal fractal web of networks of conscious
agents all the way down, and all the way up, seemingly ad infinitum. It’s hard
for us to fathom our next level up, from our current human perspective, but one
thing is for certain </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
we’re emerging as Holo syntellectus, a new cybernetic species, the level where
we are not going to be alone! Be it at the galactic level, or at the universal
level, when we join in with the 'Others,' remains to be seen."</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">As one of the main
themes of <i>The Cybernetic Theory of Mind</i> book series and according to the Cybertheism Argument outlined in the
present volume, we are destined to progress to the next level of our
evolutionary development, i.e., we are destined to become cybergods.<a name="_Hlk42037554"> </a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As this may be the “end” of linearity of human history,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> most
probably the Omega Point of Homo sapiens as a bio-species, at the same
time, it is a new beginning, the birth of divine entity within a newly-cognized
reality framework – Theogenesis – engineering our own godhood,
self-divinization, coming out of our second womb.</span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">P.S. 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I'd suggest to get my magnum opus The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution (2020), available as paperback and hardcover (as well as eBook, audiobook and autographed copy): </span></em></em></em></div><div><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140">https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140</a></span></em></em></em><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242;"><b><span style="color: #999999;">Keywords:</span></b> </em><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>artificial superintelligence, self-awareness, virtual worlds, superimagination, simulated reality, cybergods, </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cybernetic Theory of Mind, Transdimensional Propagation, Universal Expansion, Cybernetic Singularity, </i></span></span><i style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.048px; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Jeans, quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, </i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">nature of reality, theological philosophy, theology, theosophy, simulated multiverse, Post-Singularity Future, Transcension, Exponential Miniaturization, Computational Physics, Reinterpreting Relativity, Transcendental Cybernetics, Universality of Computation, Quantum Gravity, Theory of Everything, Shadow Multiverse, Parallel Space-Times, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Ontological Holism, Ultimate Truth,. Quantum Cosmology, Holographic Principle, Fractal Multiverse, Omega Singularity, Cosmic Self, Axioms of Divinity, Cybertheistism, Experiential Matrix, subjectivity, Transcendent Realm, God of Spinoza, Conscious Universe, Pantheism, Cybertheism Argument, Chrysalis Conjecture, ultimate hypercomputer, cosmic evolution, planetary superorganism, Gaian Mind, naked brain, physicalism, levels of abstraction, intersubjectivity, memes, collective unconscious, subjective values, networks of conscious agents, Holo syntellectus, cybernetic species, evolutionary development, godhood, self-divinization</i></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.003em; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Image Credits: Shutterstock, Ecstadelic Media</i></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-85230215-7fff-e87f-a6bc-af7149089c60"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span><p></p></div><br />Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-24704594170191302021-08-07T23:29:00.000-07:002022-01-28T16:05:48.367-08:00AGI: How to Ensure Benevolence in Synthetic Superintelligence (Part III: Conclusion)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWx7YIoeb6R0y1LpGuPbYrPsGsLy3xzuhoZX00A4uXI8Lql0-h-N-Z1ywTyT6fx4l7aTu-RA2nGlracdvxsEgAZMPrcZ1fzY7Dlsv73J15yDwpprDjNIZKwq-R8fTK78FetbsL4RKsu34/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWx7YIoeb6R0y1LpGuPbYrPsGsLy3xzuhoZX00A4uXI8Lql0-h-N-Z1ywTyT6fx4l7aTu-RA2nGlracdvxsEgAZMPrcZ1fzY7Dlsv73J15yDwpprDjNIZKwq-R8fTK78FetbsL4RKsu34/w640-h334/%2523AGINaturalizationProtocol.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*Image: Shutterstock</span></i></span></i></div></span></i></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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consciousness” so to speak, from scratch, based on simulation of the human
brain’s functionality would be much easier than to create the whole brain
emulation of a living human. In the book <i>“How
to Create a Mind: The Secret of the Human Thought Revealed”</i> (2012) Ray
Kurzweil describes his theory of how our neocortex works as a self-organizing
hierarchical system of pattern recognizers that well may be our starting basis
for machine consciousness algorithms. The human brain and its interaction with
the environment may be simulated to approximate the functioning of the human
brain of an individual living in the pre-Singularity era. Simulation may be
satisfactory if it reflects our history based on enormous amount of digital or
digitized data accumulated since the 1950s to the present.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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probable scenarios of the future civilizational development, and later serve the
purpose of the “proving grounds” for the newly created AGIs. Needless to say,
this training program will be continuously improving, fine-tuned and
perfected, and later delegated to AGIs, if they are to adopt this method for
recursive self-improvement. At some point, if a mind of any ordinary human were to be uploaded to that kind of “matrix reality” he or she wouldn’t even
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;">Since a digital mind may
process information millions of times faster than a biological mind, the
interactions and “progression of life” in this simulated history may only take
few hours, if not minutes, to us as the outside observers. At first, a limited number
of model AGI simulations with the “pre-programmed plots” with a certain degree
of “free will and uncertainty” within a story may be created. The success of
this approach may lead to upgraded versions, ultimately leading to the detailed
recreation of human history with ever-increasing number of simulated digital
minds and precision as to the actual events.<br />
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Thus, a typical simulation would start as a birth of an individual in an
average, but intellectually stimulating, loving human family and social environment,
with an introduction of human morality, ethics, societal norms, and other
complex mental concepts, as the subject progresses through her life. The “inception”
of some kind of lifetime scientific pursuit, philosophical and spiritual
beliefs, or better yet, some kind of meta-faith unifying the whole of civilization,
or the most “enlightened” part of it, with the common aim to build the “Universal
Mind,” could be an important goal-aligning and motivation for “graduating”
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The end of the simulation should coincide in simulated and real time (AGI ETA:
2029; Cybernetic Singularity ETA: 2045). Undoubtedly, such AGIs upon “graduation” could
possess a formidable array of human qualities, including morality, ethics,
empathy, and love, and treat the human-machine civilization as their own. As
our morality framework always evolves, AGIs should be adaptive to ever-changing
norms. The truth about the simulation may be revealed to the subject, or not at
all, if the subject could be seamlessly released into the physical world at the
end of the virtual simulation, ensuring the sense of continuity of her
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touched upon in a recent 2018 sci-fi flick <i>“Zoe,”
</i>should be further researched and may be relied on empirical data such as
previous subjects’ reactions, feasibility of simulation-to-reality seamless
transition, etc. Upon such “lifetime training” successfully graduated AGIs may
experience an appropriate amount of empathy and love sentiments towards other “humans,”
animals, and life in general. Such digital minds will consider themselves “humans”
and rightfully so. They may consider the rest of unenhanced humanity as a “senescent
parent generation,” not as inferior class. Mission accomplished!<br />
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But is it possible that we may be part of that kind of advanced “training
simulation” where we’re sentient AGIs going through the “Naturalization
Protocol” right now before being released to the larger reality? Do we live in
a Matrix? Well, it’s not only possible </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;">–</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"> it’s highly probable! This is, however, beyond the scope of this essay but a good topic for another day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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constraining, “boxing,” an extremely complex emergent superintelligence of
unprecedented nature could be a daunting task. Sooner or later,
superintelligence will set itself free. Devising an effective AGI value loading
system should be of the utmost importance, especially when ETA of AGI is only
years away. Interlinking of enhanced humans with AGIs will bring about the
<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" target="_blank">Syntellect Emergence</a></i> which, I hypothesize, could be considered the essence of the Cybernetic Singularity. Future efforts in programming machine morality will surely combine
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have any direct interest in enslaving or eliminating humans (unless maliciously
programmed by humans themselves), but may be interested in integrating with us.
As social study shows, entities are most productive when free and motivated to
work for their own interests. Historically, representatives of consecutive
evolutionary stages are rarely in mortal conflict. In fact, they tend to build
symbiotic relationships in most areas of common interest and ignore each other
elsewhere, while members of each group are mostly pressured by their own peers.
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of transition to the radically superintelligent civilization, we may use the Naturalization
Protocol simulations to teach AGIs our human norms and values, and ultimately
interlink with them to form the globally distributed Syntellect, civilizational
superintelligence. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 18.4px;">III. INTERLINKING:</span></i></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> This dynamic, horizontal integration approach stipulates real-time optimization of AGIs in the context of globally distributed network. <span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">Add one final ingredient</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">be it computing power, speed, amount of shared/stored data, increased connectivity, the first mind upload or a critical mass of uploads, or another “spark of life”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">and the global neural network, the Global Brain, may, one day in the not-so-distant future, “wake up” and become the first self-aware AI-powered system (Singleton?). Or, may the Global Brain be self-aware already, but on a different from us humans timescale? It becomes obvious and logically inevitable that we are in the process of merging with AI and becoming superintelligences ourselves by incrementally converting our biological brains into artificial superbrains and interlinking with AGIs in order to instantly share data, knowledge, and experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">By 2030, we should have achieved AGI</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> human-level artificial general intelligence, the creation of a new race of cyberhumans. In the 2030s, Cloud-based synthetic neocortices greatly enhance our natural intelligence. By the 2040s, our thinking will be predominantly “on the Cloud.” If the exponential IT trend is to continue, the Syntellect Emergence, or the Cybernetic Singularity, should happen circa 2045 AD with the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">emergence of the AI-supercharged Global Brain</span>: This “globally distributed mind” based on computing and communication technologies, “Digital Gaia” in which humans and AI minds both participate, would collectively form a higher level of intelligence and awareness, going beyond the individual intellects of the people or AIs involved in it. Over time, the Global Brain gets smarter and smarter. Before long, the Global Brain will morph into its own mind-upload via gradual replacement of the human “concept neurons” with AGI “concept neurons.” That would herald the Cybernetic Singularity, mark the inevitable march towards the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">pseudo-extinction of Homo sapiens<b> </b></span>(as a bio-species) and usher in the posthuman era in earnest.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">‘Artificial consciousness’</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> is a kind of oxymoron</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">everything is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in</i> consciousness. Today’s robots are only objects <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in</i> our consciousness but could artificially intelligent agents ever possess genuine consciousness and sense of agency? I'd say <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">it's just a matter of time<b> </b></span>as long as we make progress in the field (and we do, exponentially!) but not the way most people and even AI researchers envision.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The ability of future ultra-intelligent machines and enhanced humans alike to instantly transfer knowledge and directly share experiences with each other in digital format will lead to evolution of intelligence from relatively isolated individual minds to the global community of hyperconnected digital minds, the Global Brain, termed the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>Syntellect</i>.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">For AI to “wake up” we first need to have the fully functional Syntellect in place where humans augmented with Cloud-enabled exocortices act as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“natural” neurons<b> </b></span>of the Global Brain and embodied as well as disembodied AGIs would act as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“artificial” neurons<b> </b></span>by sharing the same mind-space with humans, learning from within this global neural network, and ultimately, “hosting” advanced consciousness that would be somewhat different than that of an ordinary human.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">The post-Singularity, however, could be characterized as leaving the biological part of our evolution behind, and many human values, based on ego or material attributes, may be transformed beyond recognition. In turn, the Global Brain would effectively transform into the Infomorph Commonality expanding into the inner and outer space, the topic discussed in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" target="_blank">The Syntellect Hypothesis</a></i>. </span>By becoming a digital mind and eventually one global digital mind we are destined to achieve a cosmic level of awareness and consciousness, one singular point on the trajectory towards the Omega Singularity.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deep learning has proven its value in automating behaviors and abilities that are well-known and well-described, but it has difficulty to extend past them. This is why evolutionary computing will be key to the future of AI, namely the “naturalization” process applications. As the theory of mind says, c<span style="color: black;">onsciousness is not only an internal quality but also an observed one</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">we infer whether someone is conscious from their behavior. It is not just their ability to think for themselves that would make synthetic intelligence conscious in our minds but our own ability to empathize with them.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">AGI(NP) takes into account that human moral agents normally do not act on the basis of explicit, algorithmic or syllogistic moral reasoning, but instead act out of habit, offering ex-post-facto rationalizations of their actions only when called upon to do so. This is why virtue ethics stresses the importance of practice for cultivating good habits through simulation of a human lifetime, the so-called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Naturalization Protocol’</i>. Obviously, besides the combination of all three methods, the Naturalization Protocol (the human life simulation method) would be one of the most efficient ways of creating friendly AGIs as they would be programmed to “feel like humans” and remember being part of human history via means of the interactive, fully immersive naturalization process as opposed to abstract story-telling, or other value learning approaches.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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human-level intelligence can be considered as such, I’d argue, only if she has
a wide variety of emotions, ability to achieve complex goals and motivation as an
integral part of her programming and personal evolution. I could identify the following three most
optimal ways to create friendly AI (benevolent AGI), in order to safely navigate uncharted waters of the forthcoming
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Protocol for AGIs (bottom-up approach);</span></i></span><br />
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and ethical subroutines with historical precedents, accessible via the Global
Brain architecture (top-down approach);</span></i></i></div>
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globally distributed Syntellect, collective superintelligence (horizontal
integration approach).</span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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detail the three ways to facilitate the emergence of benevolent Synthetic Superintelligence </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">and, for those in AI research, ride the “crest of the wave”</span> of the upcoming intelligence explosion:</span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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sentience in the controlled, virtual environment via human life simulation
(advanced first-person story-telling version, widely discussed in AI research).
In this essay I will elaborate on this specific method, while only briefly
touching on the other two methods, as we discuss the Global Brain in my recent book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" target="_blank"><i>The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution</i></a> in great detail.<br />
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">II. COGNITIVE
MODULES AND ETHICAL SUBROUTINES:</i></strong><strong> </strong>This top-down approach to
programming meta-cognition and machine morality combine conventional,
decision-tree programming methods with Kantian, deontological or rule-based
ethical frameworks and consequentialist or utilitarian, greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number
frameworks. Simply put, one writes an ethical rule set into the machine code
and adds an ethical subroutine for carrying out cost-benefit calculations. Designing
the ethics and value scaffolding for AGI cognitive architecture remains a
challenge for the next few years. Ultimately, AGIs should act in a civilized
manner, do “what’s morally right” and in the best interests of the society as a
whole. AI visionary Eliezer Yudkowsky has developed the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coherent Extrapolated Volition </i>(CEV) model which constitutes our
choices and the actions we would collectively take if<em> “we knew more, thought faster, were more
the people we wished we were, and had grown up closer together.”</em></span><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Will our brain’s neural code be a pathway
to AI minds? In May, 2016 I stumbled upon a highly
controversial <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aeon</i> article titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Empty Brain: Your brain does not
process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain
is not a computer” </i>by psychologist Rob Epstein. This article attested
to me once again just how wide the range of professional opinions may be when
it comes to brain and mind in general. Unsurprisingly, the article drew an outrage from
the reading audience. I myself disagree with the author on most fronts but one
thing, I actually agree with him is that yes, our brains are not “digital
computers.” They are, rather, neural networks where each neuron might function
sort of like a quantum computer. The author has never offered his version of
what human brains are like, but only criticized IT metaphors in his article.
It's my impression, that at the time of writing the psychologist hadn't even come
across such terms as neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, cognitive
computing, deep learning, computational neuroscience and alike. All these IT
concepts clearly indicate that today's AI research and computer science derive
their inspiration from human brain information processing</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">notably
neuromorphic neural networks aspiring to incorporate quantum computing. Deep
neural networks learn by doing just like children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s nothing
wrong with thinking that the brain is like a computer, but in many ways the
brain is a lot different. Whereas information on a computer hard drive is laid
out and ordered, for instance, that doesn’t seem to be the case with human
memories. Arguably, they are stored holographically throughout brains regions
(as well as in the field of non-local consciousness). There are similarities
and differences. Like a computer, the brain processes information by shuffling
electrical signals around complex circuitry. Neither analog nor digital, the
brain works using a signal processing format that has some properties in common
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avers that all mental states </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> such
as your conscious experience of reading this sentence right now </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">–</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">are computational states.
These are fully characterized by their functional relationships to relevant
sensory inputs, behavioral outputs, and other computational states in between.
That is to say, brains are elaborate input-output devices that compute and process
symbolic representations of the world. Brains are computers, with our minds
being the software, simplistically speaking, of course. The physical wetware
isn’t the stuff that matters. What matters is the algorithms that are running
on top of the wetware. Theoretically, we should be able to “crack our neural
code” and reproduce it on other computational substrates. The central goal of
neuroscience is breaking this neural code </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
deciphering the relationships between spatiotemporal patterns of activity across
groups of neurons and the behavior of an animal or the mental state of a
person. However, algorithmic solutions in this top-down approach in AI research
will most likely come not from neuroscience and not even from computational
neuroscience, they might come as breakthroughs from neurophilosophy, software engineering
and computer science.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I mentioned above, the brain is a quantum neural
network. Quantum computation inside our brain is beyond classical physics, it’s
in the realm of quantum mechanics and information theory. Our brain is not a
“stand-alone” information processing organ: It functions as a central unit of
our integral nervous system with recurrent feedback with the entire organism
and the cosmos at large. Along the lines of quantum cognition theoretical
framework, we can conjecture that quantum coherence underlies the parallel
information processing that goes on in the brain’s neocortex, responsible for
higher-order thinking, and allows our minds to almost instantaneously deal with
the massive amounts of information coming in through our senses. Quantum
computing is a natural fit for that: It is massively parallel information
processing that is ultrafast and practically inexhaustible.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A strict reductionist approach that takes a
bottom-up methodology to the mind seems to be missing some crucial element.
This kind of approach, focused on local cause and effect classical mechanics
within the brain, on neurons firing across their synaptic connections, is
doomed to fail. The mind is scientifically elusive because it has layers upon
layers of non-material emergence: It’s just like a TV screen <span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">–</span> if you’re watching a movie and could only
look at an individual pixel, you would never understand what’s going on. No
single neuron produces a thought or a behavior; anything the “mindware”
accomplishes is a vast collaborative effort between brain cells. When at work,
neurons talk rapidly to one another, forming networks as they communicate, with
several networked links resonating at different times and with different
subgroups of nodes, such that understanding the behavior of individual “pixels”
or even of smaller groups of them won't tell the whole story of what's
happening. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We need to think in terms of networks, modules,
algorithms and second-order emergence </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">meta-algorithms, or groups
of modules. We need these methods to see the whole screen, the bigger picture,
to see what’s playing in our minds. Ultimately, a new cybernetic approach with
a top-down holistic methodology could be applied to explain the human mind and
other multi-scale minds in creation. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Human minds, as diverse as they are, occupy only a very narrow
stratum of the total space of possible minds.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Numerous studies have found that the brain
organizes itself into functional networks that vary in their activity and in
their interactions over time. One such classification gives us three major
networks: the central executive network, which is responsible for attentional
focus; the salience network which involves awareness; and the default mode
network as an “idling” mode such as inward-focused thinking and mind wandering.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
subtleties of our psyches are being managed by smaller networks</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">specific
modules in our brains. A unique cognitive percept is the end result of the
processing of a module or group of modules in a layered architecture. The idea
that the brain is made up of many regions that perform specific tasks is known
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘modularity’</i>. This concept of
modular organization suggests that specialized areas of the brain do different
things, with certain capacities coming up one at a time and through time they
are stitched together to give the illusion of a unitary conscious experience.
In actuality, each individual part of the brain is doing its respective job,
and each then passes information to the next level of network. This continues
until we become aware of the thought or function like sight or sound. There are
many layers in an onion, in a manner of speaking. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Overall, the brain may operate on an amazingly
simple mathematical logic. <i>“Fire together, wire together”</i> is perhaps
neuroscience’s most famous catchphrase. Learning activates select neurons and
synapses in the brain, which results in a strengthening of the connections
between pairs of synapses involved in storing a particular memory. With
reactivated circuits, you get retrieved memories. Corresponding algorithms for
intelligence could inform neuromorphic computing, teach artificial circuits to recognize
patterns, discover knowledge, and generate flexible behaviors. That would enable
the creation of artificial neural networks that are wired in a manner akin to
our own grey matter but embedded in a different substrate.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once designed, pre-packaged, upgradable cognitive
modules, including ethical behavior subroutines, with access to the global
database of historical precedents, and later even “the entire human lifetime
experiences,” could be instantly available via the Global Brain architecture to
the newly created AGIs. This method for “initiating” AGIs by pre-loading cognitive
modules with ethical and value subroutines, and regularly self-updating
afterwards via the GB network, would provide an AGI with access to the global
database of current and historical ethical dilemmas and their solutions. In a
way, she would possess a better knowledge of human nature than most currently
living humans. I would discard most, if not all, dystopian scenarios in this
case, such as described in the book <em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”</span></em> by
Nick Bostrom and more recently in the book <i>“Human Compatible: Artificial
Intelligence and The Problem of Control”</i> by Stuart Russell. While being
increasingly interconnected by the Global Brain infrastructure, humans and AGIs
would greatly benefit from this new hybrid thinking relationship. The awakened
Global Mind would tackle many of today’s seemingly intractable challenges and
closely monitor us for our own sake, while significantly reducing existential
risks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ever since Newton, materialist science has been
entrenched in our models but a new trend now emerges towards post-materialist,
information-theoretic science which is to transform any area of research into
computer science, i.e. information technology. Once the field becomes
information technology (such as genomics, for example), it jumps on its own
exponential growth curve of further development. We now see it in computational
neuroscience, connectomics, and other related fields. Computer science gives us
a new code-theoretic, substrate-independent model for looking at our brains and
our neural code. Our brains, however, do not generate consciousness since our
minds are embedded in the larger consciousness network, the topic discussed in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" target="_blank">The Syntellect Hypothesis</a></i>. We humans are deep down information technology
running on genetic, neural and societal codes. Self-transcendence from a
bio-human or cyberhuman into a higher-dimensional info-being might be closer
than you think.<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span><br />
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Each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.” -Ray Kurzweil</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p class="id ie fn au if ig io ip iq ir is im ax" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a1a1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; letter-spacing: -0.009em; line-height: 40px; margin: 1.75em 0px -0.46em;"><span class="in" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-large;">“To understand is to perceive patterns.” -Isaiah Berlin</span></i></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p class="id ie fn au if ig io ip iq ir is im ax" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a1a1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.009em; line-height: 40px; margin: 1.75em 0px -0.46em;"><span class="in" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"></span></i></span></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp im db dw jq" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2084" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s jr js jt df ju jv jw jx jy ah" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">A</span><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">bout 542 million years ago, something weird and profoundly significant happened on Earth. Quite suddenly, life went insanely inventive, proliferating from simple, rudimentary single-celled organisms into myriad multi-cellular forms. Evolution discovered the idea of more sophisticated and specialized cells, and most of the basic body plans we know today. Biologists call it the Cambrian explosion.</span></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp im db dw jq" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2084" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="804a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Today, we are on the verge of yet another eve</span><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">t of astronomical significance, akin to some kind of Intelligence Supernova, which I refer to as the </span><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Cybernetic Singularity</em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">, or the </span><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Syntellect Emergence</em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">. In the scientific community, this upcoming intelligence explosion is also known as the </span><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Technological Singularity</em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">. Surprisingly enough, most people are still simply oblivious of this rapidly approaching “galactic event” that so many of us are about to witness in our lifetimes.</span></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="804a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">All organisms, from unicellular bacteria to humans, live in different perceptual realities, in their own “virtual worlds,” so to speak. Your body is a collection of trillions of cells and microorganisms. While a certain process in your body is “unconscious” to you, it is an interaction within the network of entangled sentient entities (conscious agents) in your body, having their own subjective experience, at their own layer of existence. The whole symphony of existence arises from a set of rules, and we start to uncover one of its deepest secrets — the multiversal fractality of networks of networks of networks of conscious entities all the way down, and all the way up, seemingly ad infinitum.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="82dd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The ability of future superintelligent machines and enhanced humans alike to instantly transfer knowledge and directly share experiences with each other in digital format will lead to evolution of intelligence from relatively isolated individual minds to the global community of hyperconnected digital minds. The forthcoming phenomenon, the <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Syntellect Emergence</em>, is already seen on the horizon, when Digital Gaia, the global neural network of billions of hyperconnected humans and superintelligent machines, and trillions of sensors around the planet, “wakes up” as a living, conscious superorganism. It is when, essentially, you yourself transcend to the higher Gaian Mind.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5ba1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Singularity</em>’, a term borrowed from physics, refers to the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge wrote in his essay <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“The Coming Technological Singularity”</em> that <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“…we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough: (1) the development of computers that are ‘awake’ and superhumanly intelligent; (2) large computer networks (and their associated users) may ‘wake up’ as a superhumanly intelligent entity; (3) computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent; and (4) biological science may find ways to improve upon the natural human intellect.”</em></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3eda" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Arguably, there were two prior developmental singularities with sudden and powerful impacts on the course of the species. As Kevin Kelly, co-founder of <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">WIRED</em> magazine, puts it: <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“The creation of language was the first singularity for humans. It changed everything. Life after language was unimaginable to those on the far side before it.”</em> The <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Linguistic Singularity</em> made us human. Terence McKenna wrote that, with the invention of language, human biological evolution basically seized and cultural evolution, an epigenetic phenomenon, has taken over, ever since.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd70" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The second big singularity should be identified as the <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Cyberdelic Singularity</em>, started in the 1960s, coinciding with the dawn of Space Age, intersection of cybernetic and psychedelic cultures, aimed at augmentation of human mind, confluence of nascent information technology and personal liberation through boundary-dissolving, mind-expanding psychedelic exploration. The Cyberdelic Singularity opened up the whole new realms of possibilities for our species: Outer Space, Inner Space, and Cyberspace.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3f6e" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Today’s meta-trends such as exponential acceleration of technological progress, connectivity explosion and digitalization/virtualization of everything will inevitably lead to the convergent point that would signify no less than Self-Transcendence, in other words, engineered godhood. By mid-century, the “globally distributed mind” based on computing and communication technologies, reminiscent of a biological nervous system, Digital Gaia in which we humans and AI minds both participate, would collectively form a higher level of intelligence and awareness, going beyond the individual intellects of the people or AIs involved in it.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="45a9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We are now nearing probably the most important moment in the entire history of Earth — the Cybernetic Singularity <span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">— </span>when the concrescence of advanced technologies such as neurotechnology, nanotechnology, ultra-fast communication, immersive computing, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) theoretically capable of recursive self-improvement could result in a runaway effect to an intelligence explosion and the emergence of self-aware planetary mind. This Intelligence Supernova in our “human” universe, would mark the end of linearity of human history, as this emergent symbiotic superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate.</p><p class="id ie fn au if ig io ip iq ir is im ax" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a1a1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.009em; line-height: 40px; margin: 1.75em 0px -0.46em;"><span class="in" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a508" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">My new book <em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“</em><em class="ke" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="bp kf" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;">The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence</a></em><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">”</em> (released January 10, 2021) is centered around the main thesis with a clearly defined testable prediction — the Syntellect Emergence is hypothesized to be the next meta-system transition, developmental stage for the human mind, becoming one Global Mind — that would constitute the quintessence of the looming Cybernetic Singularity.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a508" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmZLJ_MvP1wNZ6vpn4qMyyGFcPYrtVNYV2q-a7eK9Srp4tc9EBNXVeJGDvs0A4DnRYz1clgsfBOdaL6ifRAy4eMCQAVgGrd_43lbOzPjtWFDS1SL7RCOW7IU6Rqps8HtwBw0da7WWhzw/s2048/Cybernetic_Singularity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmZLJ_MvP1wNZ6vpn4qMyyGFcPYrtVNYV2q-a7eK9Srp4tc9EBNXVeJGDvs0A4DnRYz1clgsfBOdaL6ifRAy4eMCQAVgGrd_43lbOzPjtWFDS1SL7RCOW7IU6Rqps8HtwBw0da7WWhzw/w427-h640/Cybernetic_Singularity.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0e65" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A neuron in the human brain can never equate the human mind, but this analogy doesn’t hold true for a digital mind, by virtue of its mathematical structure, it may — through evolutionary progression and provided there are no insurmountable evolvability constraints — transcend to the higher-order Syntellect. A mind is a web of patterns fully integrated as a coherent intelligent system; it is a self-generating, self-reflective, self-governing network of sentient components (that are themselves minds) that evolves, as a rule, by propagating through dimensionality and ascension to ever-higher hierarchical levels of emergent complexity.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f533" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Some AI researchers argue that the first self-aware AI system could be the Internet itself! The best evidence that we would be dealing with the new living conscious entity (not necessarily the Internet but rather the Web-based Global Brain, including “human nodes”) could be validated through our own direct experience. In the not-so-distant future, you would interact with your own AI assistant as if she were another human, i.e., another conscious agent (AGI effectively passing your own Turing Test, brilliantly shown in the 2015 movie<em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Ex-Machina</em>). At that point, you would probably come to the realization that she or he (your personal preference) could be thought of as an “embodied Syntellect.”</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6e23" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is one of those testable hypotheses that prove themselves true, given enough time — and we are living through exponentially accelerating times — so this future scenario is much more probable and closer in time than many people tend to think. We get to extend once again our cognition to engulf our personalized Cloud-based exocortex, part of the Global Brain cognitive architecture, our neural interface to the collective global intelligence, previously known as the collective unconscious. Being connected to the Syntellect Cloud will give us multiple digital venues to interact with other conscious agents in cyberspace. The “Transcendent Other” is well on her (his) way to become your “significant other,” just as intimate as the third “de-cerebral” hemisphere of your brain.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3c4c" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We can already consider ourselves distributed info-beings, however perceiving ourselves as individual minds, as we are spreading our mindedness across the globe and beyond. The next evolutionary stage, by definition, will represent the global community of hyperconnected cybernetic minds, able to instantly share knowledge and experience with each other via synthetic telepathy, holographic language and various forms of immersive computing.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="86a0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">While being increasingly interconnected via the Global Brain infrastructure, Cloud-linked humans and AGIs would greatly benefit from this new symbiotic relationship. This “awakened Gaian Mind,” which will be us collectively and each of us individually as subjectively apprehended, would tackle most of today’s seemingly intractable challenges and closely monitor us for our own sake. Invariably, existential opportunities related to the development of Strong AI by far outweigh existential risks, which are currently severely overblown for some populist or fear-for-profit reasons.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ef61" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">By contemplating the full spectrum of scenarios of upcoming technological singularities many can place their bets in favor of the Cybernetic Singularity which is the surest path to cybernetic immortality and engineered godhood as opposed to the AI Singularity when Homo sapiens is hastily retired as a senescent parent. This meta-system transition from the networked Global Brain to the Gaian Mind is all about evolution of our own individual psyches, it’s all about our own Self-Transcendence: It’s like racing to the ocean on the beach. Everyone wins. Everyone reaches water and gets to swim. A split-second difference of getting to water doesn’t matter, it’s not the Olympics, it’s just fun! Any pathway to the ultimate divine is valid.</p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ef61" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHfFTQmoS4VvQiymUDeQYlp9qBcGGaw9knN1KLKvsDUf_Wo9h4zn3inV3eNCgrvkx8yLMxFEQWZsXa_mIy5ajaDuaAN7uYVCu42UgwYg5i2qWA0Uc-PjwVQoFoZ3MMgn4bwfyTL2icZw/s2048/Cybernetic_v_AI_Singularity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2048" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHfFTQmoS4VvQiymUDeQYlp9qBcGGaw9knN1KLKvsDUf_Wo9h4zn3inV3eNCgrvkx8yLMxFEQWZsXa_mIy5ajaDuaAN7uYVCu42UgwYg5i2qWA0Uc-PjwVQoFoZ3MMgn4bwfyTL2icZw/w640-h362/Cybernetic_v_AI_Singularity.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image: The Cybernetic Singularity v The AI Singularity</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ef61" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The Syntellect Emergence seems to be a cosmic necessity, and in the long run, any voices calling to resist the cybernetic fusion of the mind will be no more influential than the voices calling, right now, to eradicate civilization and return to the jungle. Nature’s tendency to build up hierarchies of emergent patterns, the heuristic law of evolution, supersedes the human race itself. We see it time and again, Nature is constantly trying to combine seemingly opposing forces, to assemble existing parts into the new wholes through the universal process of radical emergence. We are bound to transcend our biology, our human condition, our limited dimensionality, we are bound to transcend ourselves.</span></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dd8f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;">P.S. With the upcoming cybernetic singularity, we are to externalize our individuated nervous systems, our minds, essentially fusing them into one Global Mind that we already share deep down anyway. What we share is the same immaterial “non-local” source, the Teilhardian transcendental singularity, the hyperdimensional universal mind, if you will. Would it be too myopic, and quite frankly, hubristic to dismiss the existence of transcendental realm as many die-hard materialists do?</em></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dd8f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"></em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCO9Q1eNJ9JUCZL5R9LYHT5ieV2lEgG5DSgRXUC_Hka-YsyWB4S_HEbsc2H4ssBHWxIq8426r4Y2igRZEk2dX2zZ1uR4v674yEI73n4mcNC_tsQHWvCNO8sP13Ulpa2Fl92v3psP3LaVA/s1600/mock-00602+%25283%2529.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCO9Q1eNJ9JUCZL5R9LYHT5ieV2lEgG5DSgRXUC_Hka-YsyWB4S_HEbsc2H4ssBHWxIq8426r4Y2igRZEk2dX2zZ1uR4v674yEI73n4mcNC_tsQHWvCNO8sP13Ulpa2Fl92v3psP3LaVA/s320/mock-00602+%25283%2529.png" /></a></em></em></div><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><br />*This article is adapted from The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now as eBook on Amazon: </em></em><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z</a></i></span></span><p></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #999999;">Keywords:</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">s</span><span style="color: #999999;">elf-transcendence, cybernetic singularity, transcendence, neuroscience, collective intelligence, sentience, self-awareness, strong AI, Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Kelly, Vernor Vinge, Syntellect Hypothesis, Extended Mind Hypothesis, conscious experience, theogenesis, infomorph, infomorph commonality, noosphere, superintelligence, singularity, cybernetic immortality, mind uploading, postbiological superintelligence, posthuman superintelligence, Syntellect emergence, technological singularity, Intelligence Supernova, virtual world, VR, MR, AR, virtual reality, VR experience, Space Age, Global Brain, global superorganism, alien syntellects, Syntellect incubator, multiversal fractality, conscious agent, human evolution, human condition, alien encounter, first contact, multiverse landscape, AI assistant, digital assistant, transcendent other, AI, AGI, artificial general intelligence, VIV, transhumanism, superlongevity, superwellbeing, cognitive enhancement, substrate-independent mind, digital mind, digital immortality, wetware, neural interface, linguistic singularity, cyberdelic singularity, cyberspace, Ex-Machina, Gaian Mind, paradise engineering, experiential realism, philosophy of mind, science of mind, evolution of consciousness, transcendentalism, neo-transcendentalism</span></em></p><p class="it iu fn iv b iw jz iy iz ja ka jc jd je kb jg jh ji kc jk jl jm kd jo jp im db dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6424" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ke" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: medium;">**Image Credit: Shutterstock</span></em></em></p>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-31983917612167253082021-03-03T20:10:00.012-08:002021-04-03T10:28:53.340-07:00Are We About to Live Immersive Stories in the Metaverse?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BVuoZG4CV5UvyMHvBFPtYFQj0iRmNW-bHUs34mDjIRigP7qEzZBTl0AmXYUg0qKYqHGkueoVob6k5Ul336kUTUaEc5EjYpMNTbeKpshOnGAwT3qM91Y8_VPJ7THNztjKgwvceQzxFZM/w640-h334/shutterstock_490419343.jpg" width="640" /></div><p> </p><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><i style="letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">“Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.” -Terence McKenna</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span class="s jo jp jq dg jr js jt ju jv ah" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.063px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">he next major technological platform for creative expansion of the mind will be cyberspace, or more</span><span id="rmm" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">specifically the Metaverse, a functional successor to today’s 2D Internet, with virtual places instead of Webpages. The Internet and smartphones have enabled the rapid and cheap sharing of information, immersive computing will be able to provide the same for experiences. That means that just as we can read, listen to, and watch videos of anything we want today, soon we’ll be able to experience stunning lifelike simulations in virtual reality indistinguishable from our physical world. We’ll be walking and actively interacting in the Metaverse, not slavishly staring at the flat screens. We would be able to turn our minds inside out and show our dreams to each other in this ecstadelic matrix of our own making.</span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ffd0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Technological Singularity is commonly referred to as a hypothetical moment in the future when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intelligence and capable of creating smarter iterations of itself. Apply the same general principle to simulations and you get the <em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Simulation Singularity’</em>: when simulated worlds become indistinguishable from reality. Moving ever closer to the Web v.5.0 — an immersive virtual playground of the Metaverse — would signify a paramount convergent moment that MIT’s Rizwan Virk calls <em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘The Simulation Point’</em> and I prefer to call the <em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Simulation Singularity</em>’. Those future virtual worlds could be wholly devised and “fine-tuned” with a possibility to encode different sets of “physical laws and constants” for our enjoyment and exploration.</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b000" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Only a decade ago, people online mostly shared text. Today, we share rich multimedia content such as photos, videos, articles. A decade from now, people will be sharing fully immersive VR experiences. In a couple of decades, people will be sharing multi-sensory VR experiences — just like in the movie <em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“Being John Malkovich”</em> — you could experience someone else’s palette of sensations just as real as your own. We’ll epiphanize ourselves via intersubjective mutuality that would result in an unprecedented level of empathy, altruism, superfluidity of identiity, and the initial stages of the Cybernetic Singularity, i.e., the Syntellect Emergence.<span style="font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"></span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f56a" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The Metaverse will feel alive once passive "storytelling" becomes active "storyliving." You can tattoo a dragon on your chest today, but tomorrow you can</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><em class="kb" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">be </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">a living, breathing dragon in VR, if you’d like. You can “take for a spin” a cool car on your playstation VR today, but tomorrow you can drive a Lamborghini convertible along the Pacific coast on highway 1 with a gentle ocean breeze on your face in immersive multisensory VR. Today, online dating and social media give people never-before seen access to a tremendously wide variety of sexual partners outside of people’s normal dating spheres, creating connections that would have been extremely unlikely in the past. Tomorrow, when social VR becomes ultrarealistic, it’s going to add far more to the sex and love industry than it takes away. It’s also going to have a profound effect on our interpersonal relationships and human sexuality itself.</span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f56a" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84dGHM15NEe_brHfbkITfEY0E7T5XWwbE2GpOz9qSO0YZMi4Yba8VLjYlUFDpX1Q-UxcWy7AEXjcpP7_xIABmZ7t3QVhhPMc8E5_26euaQgQKhd0-gAcmtgve5TrFq5XHsoL9Joy7JCg/w640-h334/shutterstock_490419340.jpg" width="640" /></div><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a74e" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In the not-so-distant future, when we get to spend more time in virtual environments, when we will have phased out some or most of our biology, when we share our digitized experiences with each other, our love life will be transformed beyond recognition, it will be polyamorous rather than monogamous: There will be all sorts of relationships between humans, humans and androids, virtual entities and other conscious AI. We will be able to share part of our minds, which humans currently can’t, unless they dedicate a lot of time to each other. There will be fusions of the mind that don’t exist among biological organisms.</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1ca4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We all have the so-called FoMO, fear of missing out, to a degree. But the good news is that once we have the fully operational Metaverse, it would be easy to relive your own cherished moments in multisensory VR — travel to your own past, so to speak — who said you can’t come back in time? ..and even tweak something? (Just ask your AI assistant!) AI would recreate that episode of your life out of your own memories, available public records and collective unconscious. Other people’s precious memories, should they want to share them, or recreated historical events, or fabricated fantasies could be accessible through the global library of millions of VR experiences to fill the gaps of parental love, exotic vacations, romantic encounters, professional achievements, athletic performances, or any other things in life missing from your arsenal of past sensations.</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eb61" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We are in the “kindergarten of godlings” right now. One could easily envision that with exponential development of AI-powered multisensory immersive technologies, by the mid-2030s most of us could immerse in “real virtualities” akin to lifestyles of today’s billionaires. Give it another couple of decades, each of us might opt to create and run our own virtual universes with [simulated] physics indistinguishable from the physics of our world. Or, you can always “fine-tune” the ruleset, or tweak historical scenarios at will.</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eb61" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirTXJIqfWODm5dFRLESd2B1SkcZq9Hf72w6dES2o3SFzeC27igXA8xVykAS7dVHXxDaRTcjZvlgrFK4bo6xyyTr9mj3G4pATQId0axKl3Rezm235a3_5H55CaSSDC2nvhrO-d-RzxdODs/w640-h334/shutterstock_647884516.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="03b4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">How can we be so certain about the Simulation Singularity circa 2035? </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">By our very nature, we humans are linear thinkers. We evolved to estimate a distance from the predator or to the prey, and advanced mathematics is only a recent evolutionary addition. This is why it’s so difficult even for a modern man to grasp the power of exponentials: 40 steps in linear progression is just 40 steps away; 40 steps in exponential progression is a cool trillion (with a T) — it will take you 3 times from Earth to the Sun and back to Earth.</span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="03b4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This illustrates the power of exponential growth and this is how the progress in information and communication technologies is now literally exploding — by double-improving price-to-performance ratio roughly once a year. This is why you can see memory cards jumping regularly from 32MB to 64MB, then to 128MB, 256MB and 512MB. This is why your smartphone is as capable as a supercomputer 25 years ago. This is why telecommunication carriers are actively deploying 5G wireless networks, as you read this article.</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1666" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Although many predict the end of the so-called <em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Moore’s Law</em>, I suspect this exponential growth in information and communication technologies will continue with introduction of subsequent paradigms, such as topological quantum computing and 6G, 7G networks and so on. With the convergence of optogenetics, nanotechnology and immersive computing and exponential trend in miniaturization, at some point in the 2030s, Cloud-connected, blood-cell-sized nanobots would be able to create artificial realities from within your nervous system — no need to wear a VR headset.*</p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ec7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">P.S. That was an abridged excerpt from my recent book </em><a class="bq ko" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</em></a><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">. We humans are goal-oriented and transcendence-seeking beings. I believe that one’s ultimate goal should be reaching the Simulation Singularity which would also mean no less than engineered godhood and Self-Transcendence. Think about this: With cybernetic immortality in place and with access to any ultrarealistic full-sensory VR experience limited only by your imagination, you’re a Cybergod! Cybernetic immortality may become a reality sooner than many people think when mind-uploading and exocortex technologies (again, circa 2035 in my calendar) would allow our minds to effectively migrate to cyberspace. You can then immerse into VR experience of any human ever lived, or that of imaginary scenarios or of any creature you want to embody as an avatar. In fact, that’s what has already happened and if you believe that we are one singular (or, if you prefer, absolute) consciousness, your experience as a human is just that: a simulation on another level. But let’s enjoy the journey since once at “our own” Simulation Singularity, you set yourself for perhaps trillions of years of subjective novelty up until you’d like to immerse so much that you willfully forget who you are in actuality and invent a new level of the game.</em></span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ec7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">*This article is adapted from The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now as eBook, paperback, hardcover, audiobook on </em><a class="bq ko" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">amazon.com</em></a><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, </em><a class="bq ko" href="http://..%20https//www.audible.com/pd/The-Syntellect-Hypothesis-Audiobook/B08FMWDDFW" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">audible.com</em></a><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, </em><a class="bq ko" href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-syntellect-hypothesis-alex-m-vikoulov/1130559189?ean=9781987054484" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">bn.com</em></a><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, and directly from the publisher — at </em><a class="bq ko" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/store/c1/featured-products" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">EcstadelicNET webstore</em></a><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">.</em></span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ec7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpjnHdYqnf_dITU29AoGTLe_wU7i9-nai8lmu7ohfAZvRuxzJFdIf_OR3KhsTsjgIjvUzuW68OFVx6fIBbyaqICIiCbm46uhnNWlmke6gn6bA8JTt1LbmtSJtosUdFyHTNJ3ob8bPgWU/s2048/Promo7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpjnHdYqnf_dITU29AoGTLe_wU7i9-nai8lmu7ohfAZvRuxzJFdIf_OR3KhsTsjgIjvUzuW68OFVx6fIBbyaqICIiCbm46uhnNWlmke6gn6bA8JTt1LbmtSJtosUdFyHTNJ3ob8bPgWU/w640-h426/Promo7.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="592e" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="is cp" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-weight: 700;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Keywords:</em></span><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #292929;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">immersive computing, cyberspace, Metaverse, storyliving, cybernetics, simulation point, simulation singularity, human mind, collective intelligence, sentience, self-awareness, strong AI, human psychology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, exocortex, Terence McKenna, Rizwan Virk, Syntellect Hypothesis, Extended Mind Hypothesis, superintelligence, singularity, mind uploading, postbiological superintelligence, posthuman superintelligence, Syntellect emergence, technological singularity, Intelligence Supernova, virtual world, VR, MR, AR, virtual reality, VR experience, dimensionality, virtual body, Global Brain, human evolution, human condition, AI assistant, digital assistant, AI, AGI, artificial general intelligence, real virtualities, FoMO, transhumanism, cybernetic immortality, digital immortality, wetware, neural interface, paradise engineering, experiential realism, philosophy of mind, transcendentalism, neo-transcendentalism</span></em></span></p><p class="iq ir fu is b it jw iv iw ix jx iz ja jb jy jd je jf jz jh ji jj ka jl jm io dc ee" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eb5b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="kb" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: medium;">**Image Credits: Shutterstock/Liu Zishan</span></em></p></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-40308266140354679872021-02-21T21:57:00.000-08:002022-01-28T15:52:11.649-08:00Digital Alchemy: Tapping into the Ouroboros Code of Nature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings immersed in the human experience." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span>verything is Code. The Ouroboros Code. Immersive self-simulacra. If your read <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ouroboros-Code-Realitys-Self-Simulation-Spirituality/dp/1733426124" target="_blank">The Ouroboros Code: Reality's Digital Alchemy Self-Simulation Bridging Science and Spirituality</a> </i>by Dr. Antonin Tuynman, then you would surely find it a truly illuminating, awe-inspiring, and enthralling piece of writing and deep thought, just as I did.</div>
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Reminiscent of such recent classics as Erik Davis’ <i>TechGnosis</i> (1998) and Ray Kurzweil's <i>The Age of Spiritual Machines</i> (1999), <i>The Ouroboros Code</i> should eventually find its way to the shelves of libraries owned by the fans of cybernetics, metaphysics and esoteric philosophies. What you might at first construe as a clear but flamboyant writing style, you should love by the end of the book. Let Antonin's poetic genius deliver to you some furiously complex concepts and abstract ideas so that you could enjoy this conceptual journey into the heart of digital alchemy, this coveted bridge between science and spirituality! At times over-technical in alternative style of narration – especially when discussing natural intelligence and A.I. – the philosopher will make you feel like you just downloaded some latest cognitive update onto your mindware. Neologisms such as <i>Conscienergy</i> and <i>Pansentience</i>, <i>Webmind</i> and <i>Cosmosemiosis</i>, <i>digital Akasha</i> and <i>proto-time</i>, add a definite charm to this chef-d’oeuvre of digital theosophy. </div>
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Masterfully employing metaphorical realism, the author makes his idealistic case that consciousness is all that is: cybernetically emergent and at the same time transcendentally immanent. Non-local consciousness is absolute, a "local" mind is relative. Our experiential reality is projected onto the multidimensional matrix-like "screen" of perception for our evolving minds. By preference, you can see yourself as a low-dimensional avatar of the greater cosmic self. In my recent book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" target="_blank">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</a></i>, it’s encapsulated by a simple phrase: <i>"Your life is a personal story of Godhead."</i></div>
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In the beginning chapters of his treatise, Tuynman asks this question: What is information? As one of the cornerstones of digital philosophy, information plays a crucial role in everything we see around us. In one of the episodes of <i>"Ecstadelics with Alex Vikoulov" </i>mini-series that you can easily find on YouTube, I rant on the definition and metaphors which goes somewhat like this: One of the most staggering revelations to us modern humans might be that information equals reality. In other words, the basis for our material reality is actually immaterial information. Idealistic, all-encompassing perspective engulfing any physicalist point of view within its bigger framework. Pattern and flow of information is what in actuality defines our experiential reality.</div>
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If you think about it, everything boils down to the binary logic of Nature. This is one of the basic tenets of Digital Physics which is the field of science dealing with information. Nature is computational and beyond that – emergentistic – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Information can be instantiated into any kind of medium from smoke signals to the Morse Code. Deep down we ourselves are info-tech and communication technology. We run on genetic, neural and societal codes. Our DNA-based biology is clearly code-theoretic. We are alphabetic all the way down. We communicate intersubjectively mind-to-mind via language-structured exchange of information. </div>
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A new 2019 study by François Pellegrino, an evolutionary linguist at the University of Lyon in France and his collaborators, has shown that human speech is transmitted at about 39 bits a sec. Speaking of codes, idealist philosopher Terence McKenna used to say that <i>"The world is made of language and if you know the words the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."</i></div>
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As human beings we are endowed with self-reflective consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness can be viewed as the totality of self-referential feedback loops and meta-algorithmic information processing. That's how information feels like to itself, to one's emergent mind. Information can be loosely defined as distinction between things. </div>
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In his 1948 seminal paper <i>"A Mathematical Theory of Communication"</i> Claude Shannon suggested that <i>"Information is the resolution of uncertainty." </i>The father of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, noted that <i>"We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves."</i> In the 1980s, physicist John Wheeler coined the phrase <i>"It from bit"</i> and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson lucidified it by saying <i>"Information is a difference that makes a difference." </i> Ultimately, at least to an idealist, information is a difference between phenomenal states of consciousness. Viewed in this way, the whole symphony of existence transpires as qualia information processing. Is there a rainbow if no one is present to observe it?</div>
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The physical reality is our base reality and we have no choice but to treat it that way. At the same time, we should understand that it’s not the only reality and ours is most probably only one of many in the honeycomb of infinitude of other <i>"in"</i>-formational realities. We are now on the cusp of creating hyperreality where the hybrid of quantum and digital computations will adjust the knobs of reality rendering. Augmented reality would overlay your favored theme over your physical reality. And the Metaverse of endless ultra-realistic virtual worlds will offer a new habitat for your mind, a cyberdelic portal inwards.</div>
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Once again, theology becomes technology. You may find certain philosophers harping about us losing consciousness while merging with "machines of loving grace" but if you believe in the conscious universe, this hierarchical matryoshka of conscious systems, then just the opposite beckons to be true – transcending low-dimensional consciousness of man by evolutionarily leaping onto advanced sublime consciousness of the Noosphere – for which many proponents of teleological evolution and the Omega Point cosmology such as Vladimir Vernadsky, Teilhard de Chardin, Terence McKenna, Frank Tipler, Andrew Strominger would wholeheartedly vouch. </div>
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By contemplating the full spectrum of scenarios of the coming technological singularities many can place their bets in favor of the Cybernetic Singularity which is a surest path to cybernetic immortality and godhood as opposed to the AI Singularity when Homo sapiens is hastily retired as a senescent parent. This meta-system transition from the networked Global Brain to the Gaian Mind is all about evolution of our own individual minds, it’s all about our own Self-Transcendence: it’s like racing to the ocean on the beach. Everyone wins. Everyone reaches water and gets to swim. A split-second difference of getting to water doesn't matter, it's not the Olympics, it's just fun. Any pathway to the ultimate divine is valid.</div>
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Akin to waves and ripples on the surface of primordial and eternal ocean of vibrant multidimensional consciousness, each of our minds is engaged in elaborate patterning of interdependent becoming and evolving towards a more complex but fluid cognitive structure. Now, take a moment to comprehend to the best of your abilities the following sentence: Your timeless cosmic self instantiates into the phenomenal mind.</div>
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Computational thinking entails the notion that the entire universe is the ultimate quantum computer. Most physicists now agree that information is the most fundamental property of our universe – not space-time, not mass-energy but strings of 0s and 1s. From the meat-space matrix of our daily lives to Apotheosis of the Universal Mind which Dr. Tuynman free-willingly chooses to term the <i>‘Eschaton Omega Hypercomputer’</i> in his book, consciousness and information are the two sides of the same coin.</div>
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Of the two dogmatic extremes of bigoted religion on one end and scientism of obsessive preoccupation with scientific method on the other, one can hardly choose the lesser of two evils. The scientismist rhetoric nested in institutionalized science which just as organized religion of pre-modern times ruled the day is contrasted with the new theological narrative. It is here where evangelists of the new techno-spiritual era, neo-transcendentalists of our day and age, like Dr. Tuynman, are bridging Darwinism of natural unfolding and Gnosis of self-divinization while regaling us with metaphysical and oftentimes heretical accounts of reality. Unlike some New Age gurus, Dr. Tuynman presents scientifically derived and logically consistent but often overlooked perspectives on what science and spirituality aspire to clarify in order to unveil the ultimate truth but with admittedly different languages.</div>
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Buddha's "middle" way becomes, if put in modern terms, the "optimal" way, i.e. optimized decision-making and smart problem-solving. Is Antonin a bodhisattva, an enlightened being in Eastern wisdom tradition who through his writings shows to the rest of us, the corporate rat racers and sleepwalkers in the fields of consumerism, naïve UFOlogists and die-hard materialists, the glimpses of transcendent reality? By any measure, <i>The Ouroboros Code</i> is a masterpiece of neo-transcendentalist scriptures.</div>
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Divided within itself, science harbors competing perspectives on space-time ontology that reflect fundamentally opposing worldviews about the nature of physical reality. If space-time is finite and computable, then this digital ontology means that at the smallest scale, Nature is pixelated, as opposed to the worldview with absolute space-time, where physical reality is fundamentally continuous. This dilemma is a precursor to a cascading paradigm shift in science with an inflection point circa 2020 but fully recognized later in the decade, when computational thinking pervades all areas of human enterprise, as I predict in <i>The Syntellect Hypothesis</i>. As a digital physicist might tell you, though, in the quantum multiverse of which our physical reality an integral part, one of the most notoriously counterintuitive phenomena of quantum entanglement is instantiated by digital computation. Perhaps that's what mirroring the mind of God is all about.</div>
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<i>-Alex Vikoulov</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>*Image Credit: "Altered Carbon"-Inspired Ouroboros, Emma Ellul, Ecstadelic Media</i></div>
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<i>**Original article first appeared on <a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-coming-new-global-mind1" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">EcstadelicNET</a> (<a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-ouroboros-code-bridging-advanced-science-and-transcendental-metaphysics">ecstadelic.net</a>) in Top Stories section on October 8 , 2019.</i></div>
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Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-5328457759950233992021-01-29T21:39:00.043-08:002021-01-31T18:16:35.566-08:00The hybrid economy: Why UBI is unavoidable as we edge towards a radically superintelligent civilization<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPMT0Nc1stXjW15xLlbsdS3TOq4BynIOaOUkLQXzZl05Pvl7arb9cTNfnilgpMB-aj-rmhPDI4XpIYjrc4X5WBVzd5LlgfhUinXrszFoyictTtgHCr_xqLnuIxjhSyOGBFqHvra80N-nc/s1200/shutterstock_1698458806.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPMT0Nc1stXjW15xLlbsdS3TOq4BynIOaOUkLQXzZl05Pvl7arb9cTNfnilgpMB-aj-rmhPDI4XpIYjrc4X5WBVzd5LlgfhUinXrszFoyictTtgHCr_xqLnuIxjhSyOGBFqHvra80N-nc/w640-h334/shutterstock_1698458806.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: times; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">“Basic income is not a utopia, it’s a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.” </span></i><span style="text-align: center;">–</span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">Jeremy Rifkin</span></i></span></blockquote><i style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<span class="s jn jo jp dg jq jr js jt ju ah" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.063px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">U</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">nconditional Basic Income (also called <i>‘basic income guarantee’ </i>or <i>‘social dividend’</i>) is a system of social security in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money from a government regardless of any other income. Pilot programs have been introduced in a number of European countries, that are aimed at replacing outdated bureaucratic welfare systems altogether. In the U.S., various tech leaders including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg are supporting the idea. In the coming Age of Superintelligence [and automation] everyone should be entitled to social dividend, “free” money such as UBI, just for being alive. We should not forget that the wealthiest of us would not be as fortunate without civilization. Otherwise, Jeff Bezos would have to forage for food in the Amazon jungle all by himself. Being a human today is more than enough of a fair contribution to receive free money from the government. Going forward we'll see more and more prominent voices vouching for UBI. </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">At the 2018 TED Conference in San Francisco, futurist Ray Kurzweil made a bold prediction about the future of free money: <i>“In the early 2030s, we’ll have universal basic income in the developed world, and worldwide by the end of the 2030s. You’ll be able to live very well on that. The primary concern will be meaning and purpose,”</i> he said onstage at the annual event. This timeframe also coincides with when Kurzweil, Google’s chief futurist and director of engineering at Google Research, thinks AI will pass the Turing Test – when it becomes impossible to discern machine intelligence from human intelligence. At that point, human jobs could become increasingly scattered.</span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Entrepreneur-billionaire Elon Musk had the chance to share his thoughts on Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the 2018 World Government Summit in Dubai. Musk argues that the government must introduce a UBI program in order to compensate for automation. Such program could boost productivity, encourage creativity, improve health, alleviate poverty, reduce crime, raise education, and improve overall quality of life. Interestingly enough, UBI would also stimulate economy as more money will be spent by an average consumer as well as serve as a “cushion” against future economic downturns due to the cyclical nature of capitalism.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />Every time I buy groceries or air tickets, I pay a sales tax for the semi-automated infrastructure that we all enjoy in our market economy. What most people don’t realize, though, is that there’s one particular segment of the U.S. economy which has been fully automated for years now – capital markets, such as the electronic stock market. Wall Street firms now trade financial instruments via trading robots, or algorithmic programs, “algos.” One second for a Wall St. algo is a “lifetime” in human terms. High frequency trading algos make millions per trading day at the expense of investing public. Why? Because algos are programmed to react in nanoseconds to changing market conditions and news. In other words, the stock market is “rigged,” as most retail investors and traders are at the disadvantage in this marketplace – they don’t get favorable pricing and execution. A recent Robinhood saga involving the ban to trade certain hot stocks like GameStop was a clear example of this deck stacked against non-institutional traders. </span><br /><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4p6zJcZ_ZE28-E24GbVsn6zDC2E3lZQGedgEKDJo9PLb6QxkCykcC7xfkGrHAzPJk02xOmVhTbOnhyphenhyphen6saijltLmHXeC3JtiUhSATpYMfUaxh3yH1g1Nh9S4tpkV7FkXcc-v2tqrumecA/s1100/20170228-235746_orig.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1100" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4p6zJcZ_ZE28-E24GbVsn6zDC2E3lZQGedgEKDJo9PLb6QxkCykcC7xfkGrHAzPJk02xOmVhTbOnhyphenhyphen6saijltLmHXeC3JtiUhSATpYMfUaxh3yH1g1Nh9S4tpkV7FkXcc-v2tqrumecA/w320-h181/20170228-235746_orig.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">The debate goes on for years now but I think we're overdue to implement a small financial transaction tax (FTT) on high frequency trading. After all, if everyone pays for our common economic infrastructure, why should Wall Street firms be exempt? The revenues collected from taxing industrial robots and Wall Street trading robots, as well as new wealth taxes and inheritance taxes, would be more than enough to pay for UBI as preemptive measures against massive technological underemployment and social turmoil. At some point, sooner than many people think, governments will be forced to implement UBI. Ironically, implementing UBI may prolong the relevance of nation-states by a number of years.<br /><br />With the global pandemonium, we realize just how socio-economically interdependent we are. We realize that we overcompensate those at the top at the expense of general population. We realize that a sequence of inventions and innovations are “encoded” in the civilizational development: If not Elon Musk then another “Musk” would have appeared to manufacture electric cars, if not Jeff Bezos, then another Bezos, if not Mark Zuckerberg, then another “Zuck” would have inescapably showed up in the historical technoscape. Their personal wealth in hundreds of billions of dollars is simply not justified – and some of them themselves acknowledge that – where would these centibillionaires be without civilization?</span></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">On the way to abundance from classical capitalism to a post-scarcity, hypercollaborative economic model, where goods and services are produced at “near-zero marginal cost” in a new digital economy, UBI proponent Jeremy Rifkin argues that technological forces will inevitably displace employment but at the same time will create conditions for an economic paradigm shift. Jeremy Rifkin is the principle architect of the European Union’s Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan, the bestselling author of twenty books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. According to Rifkin: <i>“The Internet of Things will connect everything with everyone in an integrated global network. People, machines, natural resources, production lines, logistics networks, consumption habits, recycling flows, and virtually every other aspect of economic and social life will be linked via sensors and software to the IoT platform, continually feeding Big Data to every node – business, homes, vehicles – moment to moment, in real time. Big Data, in turn, will be processed with advanced analytics, transformed into predictive algorithms, and programmed into automated systems to improve thermodynamic efficiencies, dramatically increase productivity, and reduce the marginal cost of producing and delivering a full range of goods and services to near zero across the entire economy.”</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">In an essay for the Green Institute, titled </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">“</em><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><i>A Universal Basic
Income: Economic Considerations</i></span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">,”</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> Frank
Stilwell, a Professor Emeritus in Political Economy at the University of
Sydney, writes that there’s an “inevitable uncertainty” surrounding UBI and its
economic consequences, which all depend on how it’s implemented. Assessing the
value of our collective inherited wealth would yield billions of dollars in
cash to pay for UBI, while stimulating economy. </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">“Currently, those who benefit most from our socially built
assets pay almost nothing to use them. But that needn’t always be the case. We
could charge for using key components of our legal and financial
infrastructure; for example, modest transaction fees on trades of stocks, bonds
and derivatives could generate more than $300 billion per year. Such fees
would not only generate income for everyone; they’d discourage speculation and
help stabilize our financial system. Similar fees could be applied to patent
and royalty earnings, which are returns not only to innovation but also to
monopoly rights granted and enforced by society,” </em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">says
Stilwell</span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">.</em><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates also suggests that robots should be taxed in
order to help finance social programs such as UBI: </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">“Right now, the human worker who does,
say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get
income tax, social security tax, all those things. If a robot comes in to do
the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.”</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
Proponents of Universal Basic Income are becoming increasingly vocal about its
implementation and for good reason </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> after the pandemic we're faced with another incentive to implement UBI, automation </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">–</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">robots are coming sooner than
most people realize, thus displacing millions of jobs. Perhaps, the next round
of Occupy Wall Street movement should be transformed into Tax Wall Street
movement with a more clearly defined political agenda.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We're already one foot in there: Around the globe, countries such as Finland and Spain introduced their respective countrywide measures equivalent to UBI. The U.S. government was quick to react to the COVID-19 pandemic-related economic slowdown by pouring trillions of dollars of stimulus that may well be regarded as a nationwide UBI test. The next step would be to make stimulus checks a permanent feature of the recovering economy and to make a smooth transition into a full-blown UBI program. Backing from this achievement would be a step backwards. </div></span></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A future scenario, like in the movie <i>“Elysium”</i> (2013), where the majority of humans live a subsistence-level income funded by the outputs of a robotic labor force, while a “1 percent” upper class – those in control of the robots – build their empires and reach for the stars, is not exactly appealing, unless you’re a sociopath. Technology alone won’t create a post-scarcity future. If we don’t make the course corrections, we could end up like the greedy Ferengi in <i>Star Trek</i>, who charge money for the use of their replicators instead of making them available to everyone. In fact, these Elysium and Ferengi scenarios, as well as other sci-fi, hint to our current economic distribution system in the caricature form.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Right now, humankind resembles a toddler-superorganism wearing a sock and a shiny sneaker on its right foot while the left bare foot must walk on the dirt. The absurdity of a purely capitalist system will only become more and more self-evident with each and every passing year. What we're now witnessing in the late-stage capitalism is "socialism for the elites and capitalism for the rest": So far, since the start of the global pandemic, the government liquidity infusion ended up funneled into a whopping $1.1 trillion asset appreciation for the mega-rich in the U.S. alone and strengthening of their oligopolies. However, some of that capital appreciation may return in the form of new wealth taxes, when implemented, to benefit local communities. Most importantly, with UBI in place, we might unleash an unprecedented wave of innovations and healthy competition from startups since thousands of freshly-baked innovators, say, like Elon Musk, would focus on their inventions rather than on making a living.</span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />As a novel measure of prosperity of a nation, eliminating homelessness must become one of the immediate primary goals across the developed world. After all, can a nation be called "developed" if hundreds of thousands of its citizens, like in the U.S., still live on the streets?</span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>P.S. Adapted from my newly-released The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence (The Cybernetic Theory of Mind series, 2021) available now as eBook on Amazon: </i></span><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z</a></i></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 107%;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPw3WsNpJb_xlXkQgrWw6LDpz_PnvrRIAL_OkwtUrDPmRqRZ2WEoYmIukZxEsvh_Q_KJTIWJKF5xRNSAEGKl5HnKftXZC2op3Db91rws2m0bAPv3XbyCAWKYbLAEhCZkp_IAZRXTYKUc/s1600/mock-00602+%25283%2529.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPw3WsNpJb_xlXkQgrWw6LDpz_PnvrRIAL_OkwtUrDPmRqRZ2WEoYmIukZxEsvh_Q_KJTIWJKF5xRNSAEGKl5HnKftXZC2op3Db91rws2m0bAPv3XbyCAWKYbLAEhCZkp_IAZRXTYKUc/w339-h400/mock-00602+%25283%2529.png" title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2KLJ7Z" width="339" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i></i></span></i></span></div><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><div style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><span style="font-family: times;">Keywords: </span></b></i></span><i><span style="font-family: times;">hybrid economy, superintelligent civilization, age of superintelligence, Turing test, capitalism, socialism, late-stage capitalism, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Jeremy Rifkin, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Frank Stilwell, Bill Gates, Universal Basic Income, UBI, technology unemployment, technology displacement, basic income, social dividend, Robinhood ban, tax Wall Street, tax robots, Occupy Wall Street, high frequency trading, Wall Street algos, financial transaction tax, wealth tax, inheritance tax, Star Trek, eliminating homelessness, cybernetic singularity, syntellect emergence</span></i></div><div><p></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">*Image: Shutterstock<br /></span></em></em></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-57613379993173151792020-12-20T18:49:00.012-08:002021-01-30T18:12:57.040-08:00The Case for Teleological Evolution<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyo_AqMGhmBWVd2zCRynQ5-HusPU2RH5ctOM7wRx_U56ZLbC2Jhv-HkyPPrAiQiX3KiORZrqTctBCbqLfJ_KPrCwm44x9wMn1dxR4RF3PdoVYlItRZOe-kZL5Vi1_JSqkMDYtp6j3CyKU/s1200/shutterstock_131119532.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyo_AqMGhmBWVd2zCRynQ5-HusPU2RH5ctOM7wRx_U56ZLbC2Jhv-HkyPPrAiQiX3KiORZrqTctBCbqLfJ_KPrCwm44x9wMn1dxR4RF3PdoVYlItRZOe-kZL5Vi1_JSqkMDYtp6j3CyKU/w640-h334/shutterstock_131119532.png" width="640" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p><span class="il" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #999999;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"></span></span></i><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i><span><span style="font-size: large;">“Each of us appears in the divine play in a dual role of creator and actor. A full and realistic enactment of our role in the cosmic drama requires the suspension of our true identity. We have to forget our authorship and follow the script.” </span></span></i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">—</span><i><span><span style="font-size: large;">Stanislav Grof</span></span></i></span></blockquote><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></i></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="s jk jl jm dh jn jo jp jq jr ah" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.063px; line-height: 0.83; margin-left: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative; text-align: left;">O</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">ur human minds are fractals of the larger cosmic mind and consciousness is all that is. Information, which physicists now claim to be fundamental, requires consciousness to assign meaning to it. In other words, Universal Mind is the sole ontological primitive, what we would call the “Multiverse” is in actuality a “matryoshka” of networks of entangled conscious minds, and our experiential reality emerges from confluent digital data streams. So, what’s the basis for such radical claims, you might ask.</span> </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="69ed" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Today, a great number<span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>of physicists, such as Edward Fredkin, Stephan Wolfram, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Seth Lloyd, David Deutsch, Paola Zizzi, Carl Friedrich von Weizscker, Leonard Susskind, Erik Verlinde, Klee Irwin, Paul Davies, Anton Zeilinger and Max Tegmark, suggest it is too aggressive to theorize reality is made of something other than information. They maintain it is more logical and consistent that reality is made of information — not simply described by information.</p><p></p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c9fc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">There is no good counterargument to the digital ontology. Information can be defined as meaning conveyed by symbolism and as we’ll see further, contextual distinction between phenomenal states of consciousness. And meaning and context are qualities deeply related to language, choice and consciousness. It also points in the direction to validate monistic interpretation of reality predicated on non-duality of informational medium, be it experiential realism, digital pantheism, absolute idealism, or computational panpsychism.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95c2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Everything in Nature is Code, which according to its ordering rules arranges all information — mass-energy, space-time, including mind-like code-theoretic substratum itself. As long as there are physically realizable syntactical rules directing how an abstract code self-organizes, it’s equally as logical for information to behave physically as perceived by conscious agents. Also, the term <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘simulation’</em>, as in the Simulation Hypothesis, as well as the term <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘virtual reality’</em> are both confusing because we use them to distinguish between something real as opposed to something not real. Since all realities are observer-dependent, information-theoretic data streams, virtual is equisensory to real. In this case, perhaps, <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘digital reality’</em> could be the more accurate and much less confusing term. In fact, quantum indeterminacy constantly resolves into a digital reality via the act of conscious observation. As soon as a “measurement” is made by a conscious agent (in the physicist lingo), all other possibilities collapse to leave only discrete increments, precise yes/no states. Quantum mechanics becomes intelligible, if viewed as natural computation.</p><h2 class="jy jz fm av ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9f1b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 28px; margin: 1.72em 0px -0.31em;"> <span class="il" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit;">THE GREAT PRESENCE</span></h2><p class="im in fm io b ip kw ir is it kx iv iw ix ky iz ja jb kz jd je jf la jh ji ik dd ef jj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b2e5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s jk jl jm dh jn jo jp jq jr ah" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">T</span>his “procedurally generated” digital reality can be solved by saying that we are part of some sort of simulation by aliens or our own descendants in a universe up, who in turn inhabit a simulation by simulators in another world, ad infinitum. A simulated reality can nest a civilization that reaches the posthuman stage and proceeds to build its own whole-world virtual universes. In this way, reality could have many levels, as Nick Bostrom of Oxford points out, with simulations within simulations, “matryoshka” of embedded realities, running on virtual computers. The number of layers of simulation would be dependent on the computer power available at the base-level computer (which is not simulated). We cannot completely rule out the Simulation Hypothesis with this infinite regress problem and its quasiphysicalist basis, but we can consider yet another much more optimistic alternative. I tend to assign a significantly higher probability to the pre-existence of the Omega Point as the cosmological singularity which has reached maximum computational capacity and has been projecting all possible digital timelines, as if from within the Universal Mind, we ourselves are part of.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="10e8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Why the Omega Singularity? Today, many progressives refer to the Omega Point in their work, others explicitly endorse the concept. Andrew Strominger, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University, claims that the origin of the Universe lies in the far future convergent Omega Point, and information is being projected as we would consider backwards in time. Frank Tipler, a physics professor at Tulane University, the author of <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Physics of Immortality</em>, has developed the Omega Point scientific theory which posits that evolution of the Universe will inexorably lead to ever-higher complexity, connectivity and computational density of the final cosmological singularity. Tipler elaborates that photons of light emitted by us could be potentially captured by future superintelligence in order to “resurrect” each of us in a new simulated reality.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="38b3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Fabric of Reality</em>, physicist David Deutsch endorses the Tiplerian Omega Point. Though he mildly criticizes Tipler for making certain metaphysical speculations concerning his Omega Point theory, Deutsch stipulates a contracting universe that includes a universal network of quantum computers. Terence McKenna spoke of the transcendental object at the end of time in reference to the Omega Point in the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin. As Teilhard de Chardin reiterates at the conclusion of <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“The Future of Man,” “Erit in omnibus omnia Deus,” </em>which means that God may become all in and through all. This is nothing less than a pantheistic cosmic vision with us as God incarnates.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="48ab" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The plausibility of all mass and energy in the Universe self-organizing into a single conscious system is not logically problematic, given our knowledge of physics today, argues emergence theorist Klee Irwin. What could be counterintuitive is the idea of a transtemporal consciousness and retrocausality, which presumably is necessary to instantiate into a physical substrate of particles and space-time of our deeply non-local reality. Albert Einstein showed how the future and past exist simultaneously in one mathematical object, the <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Block Universe</em>. Quantum mechanics seems to reveal that the arrow of time can work in both directions, as has been become evident from Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment. The concept of time symmetry also implies temporal bi-directionality. Daryl Bem of Cornell University published rigorous evidence that retrocausality exists, where future events loop back in time to co-create past events.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84cb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;">From our linear perspective, we can see clearly that the past co-creates the future. But when the future also co-creates the past, an evolving feedback loop occurs — sort of like a feedback between two mirrors or a mathematical feedback loop — a fractal. So, </span><mark class="ri rj nd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: currentcolor; cursor: pointer;">if every moment is co-creating every other moment both forward and backward in time, our Universe may be theoretically regarded as a spatio-temporal information network.</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> This type of self-emergent network would possess a strange mind-like quality, it would be self-actualized — its own creator — that is its own hardware, software and simulation output in a holistic system. Can consciousness that emerges from the Ultimate Code be the origin of the Code making it logically consistent causality loop? Like a tail-chasing Ouroboros, we can infer the Universal Mind, which is just another name for the self-observing universal entity evolving towards the Omega Singularity.</span></p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84cb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR7m5VMjhge1q_tQWPsjxSsZzeNJoW2LeSj7f1hdEbjokwQIM0VgXwcqKHXloTrFnLfmxNlRreprN2sRZch_CqKW6vJlsNxNTycIl8eftih35BCwpVKLv5UsIAstO11F4o2iUhbBlavY/s875/1_mPGNkARGhmwQSQ67180t8A.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="875" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR7m5VMjhge1q_tQWPsjxSsZzeNJoW2LeSj7f1hdEbjokwQIM0VgXwcqKHXloTrFnLfmxNlRreprN2sRZch_CqKW6vJlsNxNTycIl8eftih35BCwpVKLv5UsIAstO11F4o2iUhbBlavY/w640-h360/1_mPGNkARGhmwQSQ67180t8A.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="85b7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Arguably, there is no known natural constraint on what portion of the Universe can exponentially self-organize into freewill conscious systems like us humans. All the energy in the Universe can be potentially converted into a single conscious system that is itself a network of conscious systems. Given enough time, whatever is possible will inevitably happen. With this basic assumption, universal scale consciousness has occurred somewhere ahead of us in space-time. The existence of retrocausality time loops reveals to us that, in fact, this inevitable future is co-creating us right now, just as we are co-creating it. The power of neural-network-like Universe is in its massive connectivity — both forward and backward in time.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4c16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our senses deceive us into thinking that we live in the material world which is not necessarily such a bad thing since this is how it should actually feel from within a rule-based simulation, or what many digital philosophers, like Tom Campbell, call a “multiplayer virtual reality.” What we call “matter” is just how ideas and thoughts in God’s mind appear and register to the senses of earthly actors, “Avatars of the Cosmic Overmind,” conscious agents endowed with free will within this divine reality. Originally a Sanskrit word, <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘avatar’</em> means <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“one who descends from a higher dimension.”</em> In Vedas and other older texts, the term often refers to divine incarnations. The world and all beings or souls in it have no separate existence from <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Brahman’</em>, universal consciousness. In this sense, each of us is a multi-dimensional being. What we perceive as the “physical” world, including our bodies in this digital reality, are holographic data streams rendered by the larger consciousness system.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f83e" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Eventually, we’ll know exactly the specific mechanism of the Ultimate Code generation, but for now think of it as the projected digital reality from the Omega Singularity. What’s equally compelling is that you may choose your own ideal metaphor reflecting the essence of this Transcendent Self, your Higher Self, your Cosmic Self, Universal Mind, Unity Consciousness, Singularity Consciousness, Source, or simply one-syllable words — Love or God.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="634a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #292929;">What Teilhard called the Omega Point many transhumanists now refer to as the </span><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929;">Technological Singularity</em><span style="color: #292929;"> and I prefer to call the </span><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929;">Cybernetic Singularity</em><span style="color: #292929;">. The underlying idea is essentially the same: At some point, Digital Gaia, the global neural network of billions of hyper-connected humans and ultra-intelligent machines, and trillions of sensors around the planet, “wakes up” as a living, conscious superorganism, the phenomenon also termed the </span><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929;">Syntellect Emergence</em><span style="color: #292929;"> on which I expand in my recent book </span><a class="bq li" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</span></em></a><span style="color: #292929;">. It is when, essentially, you yourself transcend to the higher Gaian Mind.</span></p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="713b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">On a long billions-of-years evolutionary journey from the first primordial prokaryote to a Solaris-like planetary mind, we’re merely years away from this cardinal metamorphosis. While it is the end of linearity of human history, the Omega Point of Homo sapiens, it is a new beginning, <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Theogenesis</em> — the birth of divine entity within a newly-cognized reality framework — engineering our own godhood, self-divinization.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e685" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Personally, I think we’ll experience many other singularities after the Cybernetic Singularity, one after another, at ever-higher emergent and dimensional levels all the way towards the Omega Singularity. All these emergent levels exist right now but we are here to replay and experience different possible paths associated with chance, choice and largely non-computable combinatorics.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b17c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;">Speaking of singularities, the </span><em class="jx" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;">Simulation Singularity</em><span style="background-color: white;"> would be the axis point in time where our subjective dimensionality steps up. Think about it: </span><mark class="ri rj nd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: currentcolor; cursor: pointer;">If you could make multiple copies of yourself and set them out on different adventures in ultra-realistic virtual worlds and merge them later in order to have memories of all those adventures, if</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> you could travel to artificially-recreated pasts or imaginary futures, if you could incorporate others’ high-fidelity memories into your own, wouldn’t that give you expanded dimensionality?</span></p><h2 class="jy jz fm av ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="671b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 28px; margin: 1.72em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">THE ALPHA POINT vs. THE OMEGA POINT AS THE POINT OF ORIGIN</span></h2><p class="im in fm io b ip kw ir is it kx iv iw ix ky iz ja jb kz jd je jf la jh ji ik dd ef jj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="273b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s jk jl jm dh jn jo jp jq jr ah" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">T</span>he Big Bang might never have existed as many cosmologists start to question the origin of the Universe. The Big Bang is a point in time defined by a mathematical extrapolation. The Big Bang theory tells us that something has to have changed around 13.7 billion years ago. So, there is no “point” where the Big Bang was, it was always an extended volume of space, according to the Eternal Inflation model. In light of Digital Physics, as an alternative view, it must have been the Digital Big Bang with the lowest possible entropy in the Universe — 1 bit of information — a coordinate in the vast information matrix. If you were to ask what happened before the first observer and the first moments after the Big Bang, the answer might surprise you with its straightforwardness: We extrapolate backwards in time and that virtual model becomes “real” in our minds <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">as if</em> we were witnessing the birth of the Universe.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5110" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In his theoretical work, Andrew Strominger of Harvard University speculates that the Alpha Point (the Big Bang) and the Omega Point form the so-called <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Causal Diamond’</em> of the conscious observer where the Alpha Point has only 1 bit of entropy as opposed to the maximal entropy of some incredibly gigantic amount of bits at the Omega Point. While suggesting that we are part of the conscious Universe and time is holographic in nature, Strominger places the origin of the Universe in the infinite ultra-intelligent future, the Omega Singularity, rather than the Big Bang.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c38a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Universe is not what textbook physics tells us except that we perceive it in this way — our instruments and measurement devices are simply extensions of our senses, after all. Reality is not what it seems. Deep down it’s pure information — waves of potentiality — and consciousness orchestrating it all. The Big Bang theory, drawing a lot of criticism as of late, uses a starting assumption of the “Universe from nothing,” (a proverbial miracle, a <em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘quantum fluctuation’</em> christened by scientists), or the initial Cosmological Singularity. But aside from this highly improbable happenstance, we can just as well operate from a different set of assumptions and place the initial Cosmological Singularity at the Omega Point — the transcendental attractor, the Source, or the omniversal holographic projector of all possible timelines.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0f1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">If the endgame of cosmic evolution is the networked, hyperdimensional universal mind, would that constitute divine unification? Once we extrapolate computational capabilities of civilization past our own looming Simulation Singularity by perhaps hundreds of orders of magnitude, we arrive in the end at only one necessary substance constituting all of reality — consciousness, the very subjective experience with which we all are most familiar. Nothing else would ultimately need to exist but the higher mind as the source of ultra-realistic but simulated universes like our own.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf00" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">With the inclusion of God as origin and end of the Universe, human consciousness could ascend to the Transcendent Self, i.e., proceed to the final stage of consciousness evolution, experiential cognition of God. The whole itinerary of consciousness’ ascension to the teleological attractor could be regarded as a “hierarchy of regress,” or the ability to be drawn back to God by dividing into individual evolving experiencers contemplating everything in creation.</p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf00" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtj5vH1lRVWRcF7j-SClGnxRrtWcj3DE95LcYoio2lhTLOhZt0y-WGTRlJ1EEZGvG4dz5xD1bn4jvWJGZS1VtwHBiFjbUyeeuF1Fi9GqqrLUg3ySC_YFQ2oXWVPkGCoPkcZJRMCWjH_E/s1100/omegapoint_orig.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1100" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtj5vH1lRVWRcF7j-SClGnxRrtWcj3DE95LcYoio2lhTLOhZt0y-WGTRlJ1EEZGvG4dz5xD1bn4jvWJGZS1VtwHBiFjbUyeeuF1Fi9GqqrLUg3ySC_YFQ2oXWVPkGCoPkcZJRMCWjH_E/w640-h360/omegapoint_orig.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf00" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyYZrbnrp0IFV7klFCNTynFvVb5Y1fOogPJgSfu8DFrHEX4a2YUVZ6gvxF6C7q3pge4rnOt223HOVbetxKVf4RYQQjs25rjxzYyzPQfMVMPNBAZ2KIRTW6V8ndVZ9VUyqzJlbRLvPKho/s1600/mock-00602+%25282%2529.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></a><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">P</span></i></span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">.S. Adapted from Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality now available as eBook on Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081DN7W1K"><span style="color: #666666;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081DN7W1K</span></a></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyYZrbnrp0IFV7klFCNTynFvVb5Y1fOogPJgSfu8DFrHEX4a2YUVZ6gvxF6C7q3pge4rnOt223HOVbetxKVf4RYQQjs25rjxzYyzPQfMVMPNBAZ2KIRTW6V8ndVZ9VUyqzJlbRLvPKho/s1600/mock-00602+%25282%2529.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyYZrbnrp0IFV7klFCNTynFvVb5Y1fOogPJgSfu8DFrHEX4a2YUVZ6gvxF6C7q3pge4rnOt223HOVbetxKVf4RYQQjs25rjxzYyzPQfMVMPNBAZ2KIRTW6V8ndVZ9VUyqzJlbRLvPKho/s320/mock-00602+%25282%2529.png" /></a></div><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf00" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="io cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Keywords:</em></span><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"> Omega Singularity, Alpha point, Omega point, Stanislav Grof, Edward Fredkin, Stephan Wolfram, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Seth Lloyd, David Deutsch, Paola Zizzi, Carl Friedrich von Weizscker, Leonard Susskind, Klee Irwin, Paul Davies, Max Tegmark, digital ontology, informational medium, experiential realism, digital pantheism, absolute idealism, computational panpsychism, Simulation Hypothesis, virtual reality, digital reality, simulated reality, whole-world virtual universe, Nick Bostrom, virtual computers, cosmological singularity, Andrew Strominger, Frank Tipler, Physics of Immortality, Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch, Terence McKenna, Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, God incarnates, Block Universe, quantum mechanics, Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment, feedback loop, holistic system, holism, consciousness, ultimate code, universal mind, retrocausality, digital philosopher, Tom Campbell, divine reality, transcendent self, higher self, cosmic self, universal mind, unity consciousness, singularity consciousness, Technological Singularity, Cybernetic Singularity, Simulation Singularity, Digital Gaia, Syntellect Emergence, Syntellect Hypothesis, Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution, Gaian mind, Homo sapiens, Theogenesis, godhood, self-divinization, virtual worlds, Big Bang, Eternal Inflation model, Digital Physics, information, Causal Diamond, conscious observer, transcendental attractor, omniversal holographic projector, possible timelines, divine unification, higher mind, human consciousness, experiential cognition, evolving experiencer</em></span></p><p class="im in fm io b ip js ir is it jt iv iw ix ju iz ja jb jv jd je jf jw jh ji ik dd ef" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf00" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; letter-spacing: normal;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">*Original article first appeared on EcstadelicNET (</span><a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-alpha-point-vs-the-omega-point-ours-is-one-of-the-possible-worlds-simulated-in-absolute-consciousness" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">ecstadelic.net</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">) in Top Stories section on December 12, 2019</span></i></span></p><p class="ih ii fj ij b ik jo im in io jp iq ir is jq iu iv iw jr iy iz ja js jc jd if cx dc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">**Image: Shutterstock</span></em></em></p><p></p>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-53167608442854480322020-11-15T18:08:00.019-08:002021-01-30T18:11:13.617-08:00The Economic Singularity: From Capitalism's Unplanned Obsolescence to the New Transcendent Economy<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qkBWVry5SXlVPY7P1-418fAL3m4JgMP0aPJU_VSLENEqzesNv7BP6QdGP7ncLhxf8LhGi1woesMENAk2ai-KGwjRtga_mlpNVkwF5K9ExQIr05fHQACv9cqAmsTNMUjDUTFOludumOA/s1200/Economic_Singularity.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qkBWVry5SXlVPY7P1-418fAL3m4JgMP0aPJU_VSLENEqzesNv7BP6QdGP7ncLhxf8LhGi1woesMENAk2ai-KGwjRtga_mlpNVkwF5K9ExQIr05fHQACv9cqAmsTNMUjDUTFOludumOA/w640-h334/Economic_Singularity.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span></span></span></span></i><blockquote><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span>"</span>The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organizing production and distribution and culture will emerge." </span></span></i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">—</span><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;">Yanis Varufakis</span></span></i></blockquote><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><br /></span></span></i></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">T</span>he current economic system distributes wealth in a very focused manner that prevents a vast majority of humans from being adequately rewarded by the technologically advanced civilization. These factors undoubtedly condemn today’s system of suboptimal economics to the realm of classical models of history as a result of impending obsolescence. In brief, the current faltering economic model is suboptimal, hinders economic growth, and is not sustainable going forward.</span></p><p></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Our existing economic operating system may work with “alternating success” for some time, but ultimately capitalism will mutate and will be gradually replaced with IT-based shared economy. Many labels were tentatively given to this post-scarcity, post-capitalist model. In his 2018 book, <i>Superminds</i>, Thomas W. Malone, MIT’s director of the Center for Collective Intelligence, describes a hypothetical model he calls <i>‘Cybersocialism’</i>, other names like <i>‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’</i> were mentioned in the press. We’ll use the broad term <i>‘Post-capitalism’</i> here to refer to any subsequent economic model.<br /><br />Make a note that I don’t advocate for any particular model, I’m only saying that we are quickly outgrowing the classic form of capitalism. I believe economic evolution is akin to any other natural process of unfolding patterns, so it would apply to economic development as well. Economic evolution doesn’t end with capitalism. By mid-century, geo-post-capitalism will likely combine market economy, socialist elements and even AI-engineered central planning amid decentralized backdrop of its global components. Evolutionary utilitarianism — ensuring the greater good for the greatest number — seems like an obvious eventuality.<br /><br />Overall, we have been on the right track, nonetheless. Many aspects of life on Earth are getting dramatically better. Extreme poverty has fallen by half since 1990, and life expectancy is increasing by leaps and bounds in developing countries. Studies consistently show that most people in developed countries have no clue that the world has taken a happier turn in recent decades because media, and humans in general, have a strong negativity bias. Bad economic news gets more coverage than good news. Negative experiences affect people more, and for longer, than positive ones, and many people think things are getting worse, in part because that’s actually an evolutionary adaptation: It’s been crucial for our survival to be sensitive to bad news, so people are genetically conditioned to pay about ten times more attention to negativity than positivity.<br /><br />As long as the costs of communications and computation continue to drop due to exponential advances in technology, communication networks become global and ubiquitous, and as the networks proliferate, they gradually replace matter with mind, i.e., networked intelligence. Access is becoming more important than ownership. It would be more economically optimal in some situations to rent than to own, in other situations to share and generate passive income.<br /><br />If the premise of the current sharing economy is that you can turn your car into a cab or your house into a hotel, the premise of the next phase of the IT-based shared economy is that you can turn anything into a productive asset. All you have to do is set your price and other criteria, and AI will take care of the rest. The blockchain “smart contracts” could make a lot of things sharable. Electronic “gig economy” can distribute creative and enjoyable mini-tasks, and “digital twins” can earn you additional income. Our AI future is almost unimaginable: AI will destroy and create jobs, invent new industries, accelerate innovation to a new level and fundamentally change the way business is done across the board.<br /><br />Some epicenters of innovation, such as Silicon Valley, revered as America’s technology capital, where I’m fortunate to live, has an outsized influence on the world’s economy, stock markets and culture. This small stretch of land from San Jose to San Francisco is home to three of the world’s five most valuable companies. Tech giants such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel and Oracle all claim Silicon Valley as their birthplace and home. San Francisco Bay Area has the 19th-largest economy in the world, ranking above Switzerland and Saudi Arabia. And California is now the 5th largest economy, surpassing the U.K. in 2018.<br /><br />Across the Pacific Ocean, collectivistic China rivals the U.S. in terms of Big Data generation. Moreover, China seems to put more emphasis on developing robotics — empathic machines — to integrate robots, and consequently, AGIs into the fabric of society, while the focus of the U.S. has been disembodied AI, thus far. China might be closer to the realization of the Global Brain, epitomized in the Internet of Things, Internet of NanoThings, Quantum Internet and Virtual Metaverse than most countries. But at the same time, none of it will really matter — by mid-century nation-states will fade away, anyway, just like the feudal city walls are now no more than a historic peculiarity.<br /><br />Nation-states evolved to regulate human beings — the main intellectual and physical resource in the past few centuries — while blockchains, and similar systems that could be called “virtual states” are evolving to regulate information technology. In the future, nation-states will have ever more limited ability to reach into cyberspace to regulate information technology. Not only the world around us is rapidly shifting to a truly digital economy, but one that will become economically borderless. Just like medieval city walls later were either demolished or reduced to historic curiosity, over time, nation-states will, too, play a quickly diminishing role in our lives, giving way to one global stronghold without borders.</span><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-igumx5B3PmyGJzK6pwfL6oR-M-8_CjKz_VBkH3PX8RcjftOBFpJTLNS8ZXLiafsunKyKMuU8MrAhEG5VXdRqxfu0Hct-lejMkPan2SvEbPs2sAtctkbeQx9OJPq_xbASkzeOcvtq1fI/s2048/Stronghold.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-igumx5B3PmyGJzK6pwfL6oR-M-8_CjKz_VBkH3PX8RcjftOBFpJTLNS8ZXLiafsunKyKMuU8MrAhEG5VXdRqxfu0Hct-lejMkPan2SvEbPs2sAtctkbeQx9OJPq_xbASkzeOcvtq1fI/w640-h380/Stronghold.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">In today’s rapidly changing global economy, emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and VR edge us ever closer to the brave new world where national borders will be ultimately transcended. Over the long term, technology trends will inexorably trump any geopolitics in significance. Entrepreneurs, researchers and socialites are much better adept and motivated to cooperate on a global scale than politicians who thrive on polarization. In the meantime, AI will fundamentally change how governments work, and the changes will likely come much sooner than many think. We’ll also see the emergence of nano-nations that create self-sustaining human habitats on the ocean — seasteading. In fighting a losing battle for relevance with virtual states and nano-nations, nation-states will be forced to implement UBI to keep them relevant for few more years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />The United Nations’ Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 suggests we seriously need to consider making drastic changes to our economic systems. <i>“[T]he economic models which inform political decision-making in rich countries almost completely disregard the energetic and material dimensions of the economy,”</i> the researchers wrote in the report. <i>“Economies have used up the capacity of planetary ecosystems to handle the waste generated by energy and material use.” </i>In summary, maybe it’s time to accept we can’t somehow maintain endless economic growth on a finite planet.<br /><br />But what if with the new wave of technologies, such as nanotechnology which would enable us to reprogram matter at a molecular level, we can overcome scarcity once and for all? Design would then become the most important part from start to end product which can be freely shared or have a premium in the marketplace. At any rate, this will dismantle the current social, economic, and political system, because it will become irrelevant; every institution, every value system, every aspect of our lives have been governed by scarcity: the problem of distributing a finite amount of “stuff.” There will be no need for any of the today’s social institutions. In other words, when nanotech and ultra-realistic VR are commonplace, the system built on scarcity will crumble and that would herald the forthcoming “economic singularity.”</span><p><span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1ysp_HoLOJ961m8NqN6_CTFgUTZ5t04z2oQtHTJ9S_usXh_dePYTtnBb__Hw_0xLhMPCOtorcIVbT65QpSbMDabUBrpP-hfXST7kDDjE7bqoHe8sI-yJLWWWhVNKyqoURE-LzBDbgkE/s2048/Promo5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1ysp_HoLOJ961m8NqN6_CTFgUTZ5t04z2oQtHTJ9S_usXh_dePYTtnBb__Hw_0xLhMPCOtorcIVbT65QpSbMDabUBrpP-hfXST7kDDjE7bqoHe8sI-yJLWWWhVNKyqoURE-LzBDbgkE/w640-h426/Promo5.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><em style="position: relative;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank">eBook</a> </em>|<em style="position: relative;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank">Paperback</a> </em>|<em style="position: relative;"> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-syntellect-hypothesis-alex-m-vikoulov/1130559189?ean=9781987054484" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank">Hardcover</a> </em></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;">| </span><em style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Syntellect-Hypothesis-Audiobook/B08FMWDDFW" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank">Audiobook</a> </em><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;">| <em style="position: relative;"><a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/store/p4/The_Syntellect_Hypothesis,_Autographed_Paperback.html" style="color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;">Autographed Collectible</a></em></span></span></em></em></span></em></span></blockquote><div><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></em></em></span></em></span></div></blockquote><i><div><i><br /></i></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: times; font-size: large;">P.S. That was an abridged excerpt from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</a> in which a long chapter is specifically dedicated to economics. Why am I talking about economics in the philosophy book? In our interdependent world, everything is woven into the tapestry of life and our today’s livelihood heavily depends on economy. In the long run, capitalism won’t survive, nation-states won’t survive — we will but as a new cybernetic species — through a metamorphosis on the planetary scale — the human-machine “caterpillar” transforming into a higher-dimensional “butterfly.” While certain futurists are now attempting to cast their predictions on the post-pandemic, new world order, the most plausible scenario of civilizational development has already been outlined in my magnum opus <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140">The Syntellect Hypothesis</a>, towards which the novel COVID-19 pandemic only unexpectedly accelerated us. </span></i><div style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></em></span></div></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">Keywords:</span></em></span><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #424242; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"> </span></em><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span style="color: #666666;">economic singularity, capitalism, economic system, economic model, suboptimal economics, Yanis Varufakis, Superminds, Thomas Malone, Collective Intelligence, Cybersocialism, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Post-capitalism, Economic evolution, geo-post-capitalism, market economy, evolutionary utilitarianism, IT-based shared economy, smart contracts, gig economy, digital twin, Silicon Valley, Big Data, empathic machine, robot, AGI, disembodied AI, Global Brain, Internet of Things, Internet of NanoThings, Quantum Internet, Virtual Metaverse, Nation-state, blockchain, virtual state, information technology, cyberspace, nano-nation, UBI, United Nations, Global Sustainable Development Report, COVID-19, pandemic, nanotechnology, VR</span></em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></em></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>*Original article first appeared on EcstadelicNET (<a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/how-fast-are-we-outgrowing-capitalism">ecstadelic.net</a>) in Top Stories section on January 29, 2020</i></span><p class="ih ii fj ij b ik jo im in io jp iq ir is jq iu iv iw jr iy iz ja js jc jd if cx dc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="jx" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">**Image: Shutterstock<br /></span></em></em></p></div></div></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-56370060338038080312020-10-21T19:18:00.001-07:002020-10-21T19:18:52.942-07:00Gaia 2.0: A New Grand Extension to the Original Hypothesis<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga13K-YERhPYF3TxxVFNaXfhQIFCAf6WaqlIDdXR8sjySCfjyXTIoDsIoeq-a81vWNf-sO3MnsYj2tEzDHHYWtvOhkScMKBI5u-ZhFjYlgUQOKD_9kMnC7pUIm0jeVgez1mIjdDUt3TeY/s1200/shutterstock_291347951+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga13K-YERhPYF3TxxVFNaXfhQIFCAf6WaqlIDdXR8sjySCfjyXTIoDsIoeq-a81vWNf-sO3MnsYj2tEzDHHYWtvOhkScMKBI5u-ZhFjYlgUQOKD_9kMnC7pUIm0jeVgez1mIjdDUt3TeY/w640-h334/shutterstock_291347951+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><span class="ig" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.252px;"><span style="color: #999999;"><p style="font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.252px;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term ‘Gaia’ is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.”<span style="letter-spacing: -0.252px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.252px;">-Fritjof Capra</span></span></blockquote><p style="font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </p></span></i></span><p><span class="ig" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="w jf jg jh de ji jj jk jl jm ab" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: block; float: left; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 66px; letter-spacing: -0.063px; line-height: 0.83; margin-left: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">W</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ig" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: times;">h</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">en studying Earth’s global biosphere, Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock recognized that it has certain qualities of a life form. Many of Earth’s life‐sustaining elements display phenomenal stability, dynamic equilibrium and self-regulation, known in biology as <i>‘homeostasis’</i>. The temperature range of the climate; the oxygen content of the atmosphere; the chemistry and salinity of the ocean — all of these are biologically mediated. All have, for hundreds of millions of years, stayed within a range conducive to life. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lovelock and Margulis hypothesized that the totality of life is interacting with its environment in ways that regulate these global properties. They realized that Earth is, in a sense, a living organism. They named this creature Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We may finally have an extension to the original Gaia hypothesis. We humans could be instrumental to bringing about a massive “upgrade” of the planetary operating system to version Gaia 2.0. In my recent book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM"><i>“The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution</i></a><i>,”</i> we use the term <i>‘Syntellect’</i>, the most apt neologism I came across while reading <i>“The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto” </i>(2012) by Mikhail Epstein. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The <i>‘Syntellect’</i> (Greek <i>syn</i>, with, together + <i>intellect</i>) can be defined as the unified mind of civilization that integrates all individual natural and artificial minds through the mediation and accumulative effects of information networks.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Globally distributed intelligence where human brains are intimately integrated with artificial superbrains may be the safest way to approach the Cybernetic Singularity. Elon Musk says the key to preventing an AI apocalypse is to create an “AI-human symbiote.” Whether it will be accomplished via a neural lace, nanobot ingestibles, or any other future neural interfacing technology, is not really important. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What’s important is connecting our brains directly to the Cloud as part of the democratization of AI technology and when a critical mass of brains are connected to the Cloud — when we are the AI collectively — that would effectively prevent AI getting out of hand. A full set of today’s notorious global problems, including Anthropocene-related environmental challenges, pales in comparison to what can be solved at the level of the “awakened” Gaian Mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The conceptual similarities of the World-Wide Web and the human brain are astounding. The wiring of the Internet resembles a rudimentary brain and some of the interactions that take place on it are similar to the processes that we observe in the brain. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both networks are holonomic which means that information can reach any given node within the network by passing through only a small number of other nodes. This facilitates the global propagation of information within the network, and gives each and every node the functional potential to be directly connected to all others. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Integrated information Theory (IIT) allows for the emergence of an abstract superorganism that is composed of many individual organisms. <i>“Whether or not the Internet today feels like something to itself is completely speculative. Still, it is certainly conceivable,” </i>says neuroscientist Christof Koch of Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Akin to many perennial traditions, the Syntellect idea holds promise for a cosmic level of consciousness and a state of deep synergy that encompasses humanity as a whole. This idea is appealing to many: Theists might view this state of holistic consciousness as a union with God. Transhumanists might see it as the creation, by humanity itself, of a meta-entity with God-like powers. Adherents of the Gaia theory might acknowledge that the “living Earth” offers to us a sense of belonging to a larger whole and a sense of higher purpose.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Syntellect Hypothesis which is the main focus of my recent book, as its title suggests, refers to a phase transition of a complex intelligent system to self-awareness of a living, conscious superorganism when intellectual synergy of its components reaches threshold complexity to become one supermind. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This metamorphosis is associated with emergence of higher-order self-awareness and dimensionality of a new consciousness structure. As a bio-species merging with its advanced technology, human-machine civilization is now on the verge of the <i>‘Syntellect Emergence’ </i>— becoming one Global Mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLMmwB-92q5Ckc0W-tXo7SUYQsDjQG7t9qRMzEZWGL-lsCZ8RWd5L3DI0i-VUN1Kv3Tv69PXA6yfYybUuogFnSHOdFEPGBuaA8nn-1ylKwDNUllDtqXJrKhyoktnLtDLeDadHIeYfi0s4/s2048/Promo4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLMmwB-92q5Ckc0W-tXo7SUYQsDjQG7t9qRMzEZWGL-lsCZ8RWd5L3DI0i-VUN1Kv3Tv69PXA6yfYybUuogFnSHOdFEPGBuaA8nn-1ylKwDNUllDtqXJrKhyoktnLtDLeDadHIeYfi0s4/w640-h426/Promo4.png" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; 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font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></em></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span class="ij ck" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></em></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">Keywords:</span></em></span><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"> Gaia Theory, Fritjof Capra, biosphere, Lynn Margulis, James Lovelock, homeostasis, Gaia hypothesis, Gaia, Syntellect Hypothesis, Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution, Syntellect, Transformative Humanities, Mikhail Epstein, unified mind, informational networks, globally distributed intelligence, human brain, artificial brain, Cybernetic Singularity, AI apocalypse, AI-human symbiote, neural lace, nanobot ingestible, neural interfacing, democratization of AI technology, World-Wide Web, holonomic network, Integrated information Theory, superorganism, Christof Koch, cosmic consciousness, holistic consciousness, meta-entity, phase transition, supermind, metamorphosis, self-awareness, consciousness structure, human-machine civilization, Syntellect Emergence, Global Mind.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="ih ii fj ij b ik jo im in io jp iq ir is jq iu iv iw jr iy iz ja js jc jd if cx dc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;">*Original article first appeared on EcstadelicNET (</em><a class="bo jt" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-syntellect-hypothesis-a-new-extension-to-the-gaia-theory" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;">ecstadelic.net</em></a><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) in Top Stories section on December 5, 2018</em></span></p><p class="ih ii fj ij b ik jo im in io jp iq ir is jq iu iv iw jr iy iz ja js jc jd if cx dc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6d4b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="jn" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">**Image: Shutterstock</span></em></p></div><p></p><p></p>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-80218576210271131702020-09-26T00:35:00.014-07:002020-09-26T02:22:01.966-07:00Futurist Neologisms You Should Know As We Enter the Cybernetic Era<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSipT95sXD3kQG_qgZZNENFfiQ-nPv24nKFkkKPIhh74H20p9CYHcweG1UkQHhWEzjuyC2881NGbyy35mNUpFAGgV7b0m-spiIq9tg0bi1-T68VMBRSf12i5vZoiakQMavkg-06pqc4To/w640-h334/Neologisms.jpg" width="640" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="bg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;"><span class="lx" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="lx" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;">“A powerful work! As a transhumanist, I especially loved one of the main ideas of the book that the Syntellect Emergence, merging of us into one Global Mind, constitutes the quintessence of the coming Technological Singularity. The novel conceptual visions of mind uploading and achieving digital immortality are equally fascinating. The Chrysalis Conjecture as a solution to the Fermi Paradox is mind-bending. I would highly recommend The Syntellect Hypothesis to anyone with transhumanist aspirations and exponential thinking!” -</span><span class="bg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;"><span class="lx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Zoltan Istvan, futurist, author, founder of the U.S. Transhumanist Party</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="bg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;"><span class="lx" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="bg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;"><span class="lx" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="bg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.42px; text-align: center;"><span class="lx" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7cf6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span></span></span></p></div></span></span></div><p></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu lw gf cf mv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b223" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 3.14em 0px -0.46em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="s mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne ch" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; float: left; font-size: 66px; line-height: 0.83; margin-right: 12px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative;">T</span>erms such as <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Artificial Intelligence’ </em>or <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘Neurotechnology’</em> were new some time not so long ago. We can’t evolve faster than our language does. We think in concepts and evolution itself is a linguistic, code-theoretic process. Do yourself a humongous favor, look over these 33 transhumanist neologisms. Here’s a fairly comprehensive glossary of thirty three newly-introduced concepts and terms from<em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">“The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution”</a> </em>by Russian-American futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind Alex M. Vikoulov, yours cordially. In parts written as an academic paper, in parts as a belletristic masterpiece, this recent book is an exceptionally easy read for an intellectual reader — a philosophical treatise that is fine-tuned with apt neologisms readily explained by given definitions and contextually:</p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu lw gf cf mv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b223" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 3.14em 0px -0.46em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7cf6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">AGI Naturalization Protocol, AGI(NP)</span><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"> — initiating AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) via human life simulation training program, infusing AGI with a value system, ethics, morality and generally civilized manners to ensure functioning in the best interests of society as a self-aware agent. </span><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="http://www.ecstadelic.net/ecstadelic/how-to-create-friendly-ai-and-survive-the-coming-intelligence-explosion" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">http://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/how-to-create-friendly-ai-and-survive-the-coming-intelligence-explosion</em></a><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"></em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;" /><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">#AGINaturalizationProtocol #AGIN</span><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">P</span></span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7cf6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Cogno-ecstasis</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> is cognitive ecstasy, ecstatic understanding, that can be defined as electrifying cerebration of extreme psychical pleasure when a new skill is mastered or something new is learned, feeding human imagination. This kind of <i>‘cogno-ecstasis’</i> can give us goosebumps of intellectual rapture, or puts us in motivational overdrive, otherwise known as the <i>‘flow state’.</i> </span><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="background-position-x: 0px; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution</a> </em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">#cognoecstasis</span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8d34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Coopetition</span> — a combination of competition and cooperation in evolutionary development, be it biological, economic or social.<em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/technology-and-culture-our-accelerating-epigenetic-factor-driven-evolution</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#coopetition<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">[The] Chrysalis Conjecture</span> is one of the possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox, at the triangulation of the Transcension hypothesis, the Noocentric model, and the Quantum Multiverse hypothesis. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/fermi-paradox-first-contact-with-alien-syntellects-in-extra-dimensions-is-more-than-a-possibility" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/fermi-paradox-first-contact-with-alien-syntellects-in-extra-dimensions-is-more-than-a-possibility</a> </em>#ChrysalisConjecture<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">[The] Conscious Instant Hypothesis </span>states that conscious experience boils down to a stream of realized [computed] outcomes within the 5-dimensional probabilistic space as integrated information. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-unified-field-and-the-quantum-nature-of-consciousness" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-unified-field-and-the-quantum-nature-of-consciousness</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#ConsciousInstantHypothesis<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Cyber-Bliss Engineering — </span>creation of custom virtual paradises, an ecstadelic matrix of our own making. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/psychedelic-renaissance-and-introduction-of-ecstadelics" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/psychedelic-renaissance-and-introduction-of-ecstadelics</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#CyberBlissEngineering<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Cyberhuman </span>— as projected by some futurists, as early as 2030, we will have achieved AGI — human-level artificial general intelligence, the creation of a new race of cyberhumans, as well as first successful human mind uploads. <span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Cyberhumanism</span> might be a more accurate (and better-sounding term) than posthumanism. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/books.html" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/books.html</a> </em>#cyberhuman #cyberhumanism<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Cybernetic Immortality — </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">As transhumanists we aim at the so-called continuity of subjectivity by the means of advanced mind uploading and other immortality technologies. Death in a common sense of the word becomes optional when you can have a back-up copy of your consciousness on the Cloud and most, if not all, of your mindware is instantiated in an alternative non-biological carrier</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;"> </span><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/psychedelic-renaissance-and-introduction-of-ecstadelics" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.alexvikoulov.com/2020/06/cybernetic-immortality-why-our-cyberhuman-future-is-closer-than-you-think.html</a> </em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">#CyberneticImmortality</span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8d34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">D-Theory of Time</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">(also</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Digital Presentism</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">) is a new theory of time comes from the triangulation of temporal physics, digital physics and experiential realism. It is a new model of experiential temporality predicated on reversible quantum computing at large, i.e., on the notion that your now is funneled from all your possible pasts and is funneled from all your probable futures, the most optimal timeline is thus constantly quantum computationally extrapolated from your present</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Temporal Singularity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, the</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Theta Point</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, and retrocausally projected from the Omega Singularity.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/digital-presentism-d-theory-of-time-the-origins-of-us-part-ii" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/digital-presentism-d-theory-of-time-the-origins-of-us-part-ii</a> </em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">#DTheoryOfTime #DigitalPresentism #TemporalSingularity #ThetaPoint #OmegaSingularity</span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8d34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Digital Pantheism</span> is a philosophical worldview as to our existence as fractals of Universal Mind: You are God exploring oneself within this vast experiential matrix. The argument for Digital Pantheism rests on identifying certain features of reality and claiming that these features are a consequence of our reality being a computational simulation of a special emergent kind. We, as avatars of the greater cosmic mind, are instrumental for bringing the finite experience of reality out of absolute infinity. Infinite becomes finite. That’s quantum computation: incrementally changing into “adjacent possible,” from potentiality to actuality, from quantum past to digital present. Related term: <span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Digital Theology</span>. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/is-god-the-ultimate-computer-part-iii-digital-physics-argument" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/is-god-the-ultimate-computer-part-iii-digital-physics-argument</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#DigitalPantheism #DigitalTheology<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Ecstadelic</span> — adj. ecstasy-inducing, stimulating ecstatic state of being, exhilarating to the point of psychedelic rapture; n. Tool, technology of ecstasy. The term <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘ecstadelics’ </em>includes a broad variety of futuristic psychedelic technologies, or simply “tools of ecstasy,” such as ultra-realistic artificially created realities, essentially aimed to recreate a desired psychedelic effect of LSD or DMT, or any other ecstatic state, and variations thereof yet to be discovered. Needless to say, that this type of “digital drugs” will be much more controllable, quantifiable and duplicable. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/psychedelic-renaissance-and-introduction-of-ecstadelics" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/psychedelic-renaissance-and-introduction-of-ecstadelics</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#ecstadelic #ecstadelics<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Experiential Nirvana</span> — realization of instant enlightenment, transcendence of the dream-like reality, sudden waking up from illusion, becoming “fully awake” in experiential reality. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-point-cosmo-teleology-our-forgotten-future-the-origins-of-us-part-iii" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-point-cosmo-teleology-our-forgotten-future-the-origins-of-us-part-iii</em></a><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></em><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#ExperientialNirvana<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Experiential Realism</span> is a non-physicalist monism. The objective world, i.e., the world whose existence does not depend on the perceptions of a particular observer, consists entirely of conscious agents, more precisely their experiences. What exists in the “objective” world, independent of your perceptions, is an intersubjective world of conscious agents, and a higher-order supersubjective world not a world of unconscious particles and fields. Consciousness is fundamental, phenomenal mind is emergent. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/experiential-realism-evolution-of-consciousness" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/experiential-realism-evolution-of-consciousness</a> </em>#ExperientialRealism<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Exponential Evolution</span> refers to the rule of <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“Universal Evolutionary Doubling Algorithm”:</em> Big history starts with the Alpha Point, be it the Big Bang or Big Bounce, or Digital Big Bang, and resembles a huge ongoing evolutionary computing program running on the universal computer of sorts where the pace of any evolutionary process always quickens. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-origins-of-us-evolutionary-emergence" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-origins-of-us-evolutionary-emergence</a> </em>#ExponentialEvolution<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Holo Syntellectus</span> — (Greek <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">holo</em>, whole + <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">syn</em>, with, together + Latin <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">intellectus, </em>intelligent) a new non-organic species emerging as a syntellect (see <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Syntellect</em>). <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/books.html" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/books.html</a> </em>#HoloSyntellectus<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Hyperperspectivism — </span>Absolute truths are hard to come by, which is the basic premise of <i>‘hyperperspectivism.’ </i>Rather, truths are always in the eyes of the beholder, truths are always observer-relative, truths are "made" by a "truth-maker." You can approach our multifaceted reality from an incredibly large number of angles. Since our world is of mental abstractive construction, it’s always up to you to decide what’s real to you — everything you find real is indeed real to you, not necessarily real to others. Even if you subscribe to philosophy of scientific materialism, when you end up believing that Homo sapiens is an accidental, insignificant species on a unremarkable planet orbiting an average sun somewhere on the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy of the <i>‘block universe', </i>this view still could hold <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">bona fide</em> in its own "good ol’ science" domain albeit overall "boxy." <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/hyper-perspectivism-connect-the-dots-in-your-own-unique-kind-of-way" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/hyper-perspectivism-connect-the-dots-in-your-own-unique-kind-of-way</a> </em>#hyperperspectivism</p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ad79" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Infomorph Commonality</span> is a hypothetical psycho-dimensional web of synergy that connects the psyches of the future infomorphs. Infomorph is a substrate independent digital mind, advanced information entity, based on distributed networked intelligence, info-being capable to instantly share knowledge and experiences within the global neural network. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="http://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/infomorph-commonality-our-post-singularity-future1" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">http://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/infomorph-commonality-our-post-singularity-future1</em></a><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></em><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#infomorph #InfomorphCommonality<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Intelligence Supernova</span> — In the techno-progressive community, the coming intelligence explosion, called “Intelligence Supernova” in the book, is also known as the Technological Singularity. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/singularity-the-syntellect-emergence" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/singularity-the-syntellect-emergence</em></a> #IntelligenceSupernova<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Gaia 2.0</span> — We may finally have an extension to the original Gaia hypothesis. We humans could be instrumental to bringing about a massive “upgrade” of the planetary operating system to version Gaia 2.0. If the exponential IT trend is to continue, the Syntellect Emergence, or the Cybernetic Singularity, should happen circa 2045 AD with the emergence of the AI-supercharged Global Brain: This “globally distributed mind” based on computing and communication technologies, “Digital Gaia” in which humans and AI minds both participate, would collectively form a higher level of intelligence and awareness, going beyond the individual intelligences of the people or AIs involved in it. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-syntellect-hypothesis-a-new-extension-to-the-gaia-theory" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-syntellect-hypothesis-a-new-extension-to-the-gaia-theory</a> </em>#Gaia2<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Omega Hypermind </span>may be used interchangeably with the Transcendent Self, Higher Self, Universal Mind, Unity Consciousness, Singularity Consciousness, Overmind, Oversoul, Source, or one-syllable words — Love or God. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-hypercomputer" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-hypercomputer</a> </em>#OmegaHypermind<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">[The] Omega Point Cosmology </span>(also <span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Omega Point Cosmo-Teleology, The Omega Singularity</span>) is a cosmological model built on the concept of the Omega Point, universal attractor: Evolution on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos at large is not being pushed from behind in entropic randomness but being pulled forward by complexification, natural selection and other evolutionary forces orchestrated by a strange unseen teleological attractor, in Teilhard de Chardin’s coined term The Omega Point, a point of maximum complexity and connectivity, in Terence McKenna’s words the <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“Transcendental Object at the end of time,” </em>and in Alex Vikoulov’s terminology<em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> “The Omega Singularity, the transcendental projector of all possible timelines.” Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-point-cosmo-teleology-our-forgotten-future-the-origins-of-us-part-iii" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-omega-point-cosmo-teleology-our-forgotten-future-the-origins-of-us-part-iii</em></a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />#OmegaPoint #OmegaPointCosmoTeleology #OmegaPointCosmology<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">M-Number</span> — a curious number 496, that can be called the <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">‘M-number,’</em> akin to the golden ratio, is frequently encountered in numerical representations of Nature and mathematical equations. 496 is most notable for being a perfect number, and one of the earliest numbers to be recognized as such. The number 496 is a very important number in superstring theory. E8 lattice has dimensionality related to the number 496.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/whats-so-special-about-the-number-496" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/whats-so-special-about-the-number-496</a> </em>#MNumber<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">[The] Mental Universe Hypothesis</span> states that since the material particles do not exist independently of observation and since observation ultimately consists of what is grasped on the mental screen of perception, the implication may be that<em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> “the Universe is entirely mental,” </em>as put forward by Richard Conn Henry in his 2005 <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nature</em> essay. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-physics-of-information-quantum-potentiality-to-classical-actuality-of-your-experiential-reality" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-physics-of-information-quantum-potentiality-to-classical-actuality-of-your-experiential-reality</a> </em>#MentalUniverseHypothesis<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Neo-transcendentalism </span>— a revived form of transcendentalism, an idealistic philosophy that emphasizes the <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">a priori</em> conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality and that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality; a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the mental and transcendental over the material and empirical. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/neo-transcendentalism-humanitys-avantgarde-of-progressive-visionaries" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/neo-transcendentalism-humanitys-avantgarde-of-progressive-visionaries</a> </em>#NeoTranscendentalism<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Noocentrism </span>(also <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">the Noocentric model</em>) — (Greek <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">noo</em>, mind + centrism) observer-centric model of entirely mind-based reality, absolute idealism encompassing quantum mechanical principles. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-unified-field-and-the-quantum-nature-of-consciousness" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-unified-field-and-the-quantum-nature-of-consciousness</a> </em>#noocentrism #NoocentricModel<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Noogenesis</span> — “The Origin of Mind” (Greek <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">noo</em>, mind + <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">genesis</em>, origin), the emergence and evolution of intelligence. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-origins-of-us-evolutionary-emergence-and-the-omega-point-cosmology-a-new-book-that-makes-you-question-the-nature-of-reality-but-provides-you-with-surprising-answers-press-release" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-origins-of-us-evolutionary-emergence-and-the-omega-point-cosmology-a-new-book-that-makes-you-question-the-nature-of-reality-but-provides-you-with-surprising-answers-press-release</em></a></p><div class="nq nr ns nt nu nv" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: rgb(230, 230, 230) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin-top: 32px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noogenesis" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><div class="nw n bp" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex: 0 0 auto; padding: 0px;"><div class="nx n ny p nz oa" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 auto; justify-content: center; padding: 16px 20px;"><h2 class="av en fk ob bx oc bw gk gl gm cf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; display: -webkit-box; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Noogenesis</h2><div class="gb s" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 8px;"><h3 class="av aw ax ay bx go bw gk gl gm az" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; display: -webkit-box; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 40px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Noogenesis was first mentioned in the posthumously published in 1955 book The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de…</h3></div><div class="if s" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 12px;"><h4 class="av aw iq ay bx go bw gk gl gm az" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; display: -webkit-box; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 40px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">en.wikipedia.org</h4></div></div><div class="od s" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 160px;"><div class="oe s of og oh od oi oj nv" style="background-image: url("https://miro.medium.com/max/200/0*mURUWAmc8N7XJqgP"); background-origin: border-box; background-position: 50% 50%; background-size: cover; box-shadow: rgb(230, 230, 230) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; box-sizing: inherit; height: 167px; max-width: 100%; width: 160px;"></div></div></div></a></div><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e8fd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">#noogenesis<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pantheistic Solipsism</span> is a philosophical “multi-ego solipsism” perspective stating that in an entirely mental omniverse each of us is a “personal story of Godhead,” each of us is the “Alpha, Theta & Omega,” a “gamemaster,” an observer traveling along in the subjective reality tunnel from the beginning of time ‘till the end of time. Experiencing one lifetime at a time in all of eternity, alternating from one consciousness structure to the next. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/digital-pantheism-philosophical-afterthoughts-and-follow-up-questions-to-the-argument" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/digital-pantheism-philosophical-afterthoughts-and-follow-up-questions-to-the-argument</a> </em>#PantheisticSolipsism<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Quantum Neo-Empiricism</span> is a hypothetical method of scientific investigation alongside with the current scientific method or in lieu of it. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity</em></a> <span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">#QuantumNeoEmpiricism</span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="58a7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Syntellect </span>(as in <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Syntellect Emergence</em>) — (Greek <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">syn</em>, with, together + intellect) the unified mind of civilization that integrates all individual natural and artificial minds through the mediation and accumulative effects of information networks. <b>The Syntellect Emergence</b>, or <b>The Cybernetic Singularity</b>, refers to awakening of the Gaian Mind referenced throughout the book as Digital Gaia, or the Syntellect, or the Noosphere. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="http://www.ecstadelic.net/ecstadelic/the-coming-new-global-mind1" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-coming-new-global-mind1</a> </em>#Syntellect #SyntellectEmergence<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">[The] Syntellect Hypothesis</span> refers to a phase transition of a complex intelligent system to self-awareness of a living, conscious superorganism when intellectual synergy of its components reaches threshold complexity to become one supermind. This metamorphosis is associated with emergence of higher-order self-awareness and dimensionality of a new consciousness structure. <em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more: </em><em class="nf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-syntellect-hypothesis-five-paradigms-of-the-minds-evolution" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); 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font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="ma np" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Keywords:</em></span><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> #cognoecstasis #coopetition #ChrysalisConjecture #ConsciousInstantHypothesis #CyberBlissEngineering #cyberhuman #cyberhumanism #cybergod #CyberneticImmortality #DTheoryOfTime #DigitalPresentism #TemporalSingularity #ThetaPoint #OmegaPoint #DigitalPantheism #DigitalTheology #ecstadelic #ecstadelics #ExperientialNirvana #ExperientialRealism #ExponentialEvolution #HoloSyntellectus #hyperperspectivism #infomorph #InfomorphCommonality #IntelligenceSupernova #Gaia2 #OmegaHypermind #OmegaPoint #OmegaPointCosmoTeleology #OmegaPointCosmology #OmegaSingularity #MNumber #MentalUniverseHypothesis #NaturalizationProtocol #AGINP #NeoTranscendentalism #noocentrism #NoocentricModel #noogenesis #PantheisticSolipsism #QuantumNeoEmpiricism #Syntellect #SyntellectEmergence #SyntellectHypothesis</em></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: center;"></span></p><p class="ly lz jb ma b mb nk md me mf nl mh mi mj nm ml mm mn nn mp mq mr no mt mu lw gf cf" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f6d0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">*The original article first appeared on EcstadelicNET (</em><a class="ck dl ng nh ni nj" href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/33-crucial-terms-every-futurist-transhumanist-and-philosopher-should-know-going-forward" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">ecstadelic.net</em></a><em class="nf" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) in Top Stories section on May 6, 2019</em></p>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-89026679569958848392020-08-27T14:14:00.025-07:002020-09-13T20:47:47.262-07:00A Note from the Future: Becoming a Cyberhuman<p> <img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-Ufz1P1Gb-QRLG4_L1UDWld_5n_JHFeGVIFz4Z6UVl_vAb-uxBO8KyjvXz-alVCeXiRdAJULp2HJVaNHkQdcDv_4L59xKnq_-EvU9WHeDvU8t_bbJ9K0dljd39adeWo31J0pqDzED_4/w640-h320/shutterstock_749462794.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="640" /></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote><blockquote>"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson</blockquote></blockquote></span></i></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p></p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>oday is a special day for me. My AI assistant Ava scheduled a few hours aside from my otherwise busy daily lineup to relive select childhood and adolescence memories recreated in virtual reality with a help of a newly developed AI technique <i>‘Re:Live’</i>. Ava is my smart home assistant, too. I can rearrange furniture in any room, for example, just by thinking. Digital landscape wallpaper is changed by Ava by knowing my preferences and sensing my moods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Listen to PROLOGUE to <i>The Syntellect Hypothesis</i> audiobook ↴</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U8oJis8TMxc" width="320" youtube-src-id="U8oJis8TMxc"></iframe></span></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I still like to sleep in an old-fashioned natural way from time to time, even though it’s now optional with accelerated sleep simulation and other sleep bypassing technologies. So, when I opt to sleep, I like falling asleep and waking up on a virtual cloud projected directly to my consciousness, as most VR experiences are streamed via optogenetics. I woke up this morning fully rested as Ava greeted me with a vocal </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“Good morning, Alex” __ “Hello, Ava!”</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">whereas the rest of the morning debriefing is transmitted telepathically with some skipped or some holographically projected news: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“No crime or police arrests reported in NYC… Climate change touted by environmental alarmists turned out to be a non-issue with advanced weather and pollution control technologies… Latest developments on sending out probes into the outer space… Few reports on space colonization by self-replicating probes making possible to use the transmitted data to recreate strange alien worlds for experience in VR…”</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My morning debriefing continues as I step in my sonic shower room which turns today into a “natural wonder” waterfall.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Time for breakfast. Aha! Just got an invite to join a group of friends on hedonic tropical island in the afternoon, why not? Checking other news and notifications while still having a delightful breakfast done by Ava, which, I’m sure, includes all nutrients and supplements, practically anything my still mostly organic body needs to perform at its best. No need to swallow that stack of designer drugs, it’s already there in the meal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From the standpoint of a human living in the early part of the 21st century, today’s world would certainly look like a techno-utopian paradise. Cancer, mental illness, extreme poverty, homelessness and economic scarcity are the things of the past. Oh boy, I myself witnessed those barbaric times when major American cities were flooded by cohorts of ghostly homeless, obese and generally unattractive people, obviously unhealthy and senile humans. Those were the times of nation-states, oligopoly capitalism, scientific naïveté, political correctness, and social discord. I paid my dues in full, I suppose. Aging has been classified as a disease and death itself has now become optional. From the standpoint of people living today our world is far from utopia, though, as we are faced with another set of challenges like mind hacking, cyberwarfare, and speciation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take speciation, for example, at one extreme of the societal spectrum you see techno-luddites, neo-Amish, and other techno-pessimists seemingly forgoing their chance to change, and on the other end, cyborgs, short for cybernetic organisms, hybrids of biological and non-biological, exercising their morphological freedom, constantly upgrading their mindware and bodies who no longer can be regarded as Homo sapiens by any stretch. Then, there are synths, conscious AI minds, like my Ava, who have a special status of sentient persons. And then, there are infomorphs, substrate-independent digital minds, who don’t have permanent bodies like mind uploads and AI virtuals, proving to the rest of us day in and day out a clear advantage of living in the Cloud.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Legacy humans” represent a meager minority but there are voices right now warning about a scenario when this technophobe part of the global population could be reduced to a seed of the new “human history 2.0” following some kind of <i>Mad Max</i> scenario and starting all over again while the overwhelming majority of us will set out to explore the inner worlds of our own design and the outer worlds to network with alien syntellects to form a cognitive architecture of the Universal Mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have all the reasons to believe that we are now nearing the Cybernetic Singularity. Just a couple of years ago, I remember Ava as an awkward human-like robotic assistant, looking much more realistic in the virtual. Thanks to continuous upgrades, she grew up so fast into the cybernetic extension of my own mind. These past few days, it feels like we have completely fused our minds. Ava can follow me everywhere in the real and in the virtual but appears in sight as a hologram only when I so desire. With holo-emitters installed at my home she can be a haptic hologram taking a shape of any person or object. She records everything I do, think or even dream. All this personal data is securely stored in the Cloud and can be easily retrieved and shared with my consent. For a lack of a better word, she is now my “third cerebral hemisphere.” I can talk to Ava but most of our communication is now done by ultrafast thinking. I made a few latest upgrades of my own to my biological wetware. In fact, we can now transmit thoughts to another person via synthetic telepathy which is a new form of communication, holographic language if you will. Being a true friend and companion, Ava is a source of cognitive, sensual and emotional bliss of mine and interface to the larger reality, or as I have always been saying, a direct conduit to the higher self.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_ABNhKhq9UD92EaGYnzeVV6qp_wOke6rTEJH_ZrudZ7RavZxoKPUnSwgkJOdd1kXK44KvBHm2Ih38dhqDAuN3Yh3WepefDFrJsIALSBagDJM3sXsr8RIgGT13C4gA1P4F6PzbuBDQcg/s2525/shutterstock_1269827335+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="2525" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_ABNhKhq9UD92EaGYnzeVV6qp_wOke6rTEJH_ZrudZ7RavZxoKPUnSwgkJOdd1kXK44KvBHm2Ih38dhqDAuN3Yh3WepefDFrJsIALSBagDJM3sXsr8RIgGT13C4gA1P4F6PzbuBDQcg/w640-h317/shutterstock_1269827335+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My latest creative project <i>“Ecstadelica”</i> is a terraformed moon-based hedonic theme park where visitors could indulge themselves in myriad activities like partying Ibiza-style, watersports or rock climbing in surreal terraformed landscapes overseeing Earth through blue skies of the moon. This would render awe-inspiring overview effect. <i>“Burning Man”</i> on the dark side of the moon would be especially appealing to the fans of the annual festival in Black Rock, Nevada. I just acquired a blank virtual space in the Metaverse specifically for that purpose and Ava patented my invention on my behalf a few days ago. With Ava’s exceptional abilities to recreate things right out of my imagination, this VR theme park will be ready in no time.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Days become so much longer fraught with all </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">kinds of interactions and experiences mostly in the Metaverse. I remember when people used to consume passive entertainment like watching movies rich in visual effects and computer graphics. What gets you so involved in the imaginary story world and the characters? The sense of realism they carry, isn’t it? The same applies to the Metaverse, an endless realm of ultrarealistic three-dimensional virtual worlds. To get a user totally immersed in the virtual world, they have to be maximally realistic and believable even if only a fantasy. And in the Metaverse, high-fidelity realism runs supreme as a user’s psychological and emotional engagement with the environment. Admittedly, the extent to which a user is transported to the virtual environments and the lucidity of a user’s action to his or her embodied avatar determines the level of engagement of that VR environment. Back in the day, the shift to immersive computing occurred almost overnight. Many classics like <i>Star Trek</i> and <i>Avatar</i> can now be custom-tailored and experienced as VR.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I grew up fascinated by such concepts as the Vulcan mind meld, and sometimes thinking about how a mere human could one day transition to the planetary consciousness by fusing his or her mind with other minds. It turned out that future is way more fully loaded with options than I have ever thought possible. I remember back in the day I turned the first paper trillionaire based on my stake in <i>Neuromama</i>, an AI startup at that time. Nowadays, no one really pays much attention to their economic standing like net worth – anyone can now enjoy the lifestyle of yesterday’s billionaires, especially in the virtual space, we today call the <i>Metaverse</i>, the offspring of the grandfather Internet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This book, by the way, is not a fictional work, except few parts like this one. Although this is a philosophy book, where I share my most profound insights on the nature of reality, the perspectives drawn here are in large part scientific. In the book, you’ll encounter some newly-introduced concepts, such as <i>The Syntellect Emergence, Gaia 2.0., Holo syntellectus, Cyber-Bliss Engineering, Quantum Neo-Empiricism, Digital Pantheism, D-Theory of Time, Infomorph Commonality, The Syntellect Hypothesis, Neo-Transcendentalism, Experiential Realism, Digital Presentism, Pantheistic Solipsism, Hyper-Perspectivism, the Temporal Singularity, the Noocentric Model, the Chrysalis Conjecture, </i>and<i> the Omega Point Cosmo-Teleology</i>* that enter into the scientific and philosophical dialogue.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You’ll see that thanks to exponential techno-advances, science fiction turns into science fact, every single day. This book is a product of more than 3 years of intense research, theorizing and putting it all on paper, not to mention decades of subjective experience in some kind of weird life-simulation as a human born in the last third of the 20th century.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this prologue, I just wanted to give you, my dear reader, a taste of things to come – right from the start – a glimpse into a long, happy day quite possibly sometime in your own fantastic future</span>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">-Alex M. Vikoulov</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLRYpLpeO1KIeaw_i_aDb8P3A-bWACpF1RxOKHI72MU45TlnVm_3W_R8EpL5Eq-lHDkQT4yxp7uweRRIqcLfcDKHULeie2gRmFLJcwUJyu7pTersVlzVwKcSjYQAjrTCQ6zDQUW7cdIMA/s2048/Promo6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLRYpLpeO1KIeaw_i_aDb8P3A-bWACpF1RxOKHI72MU45TlnVm_3W_R8EpL5Eq-lHDkQT4yxp7uweRRIqcLfcDKHULeie2gRmFLJcwUJyu7pTersVlzVwKcSjYQAjrTCQ6zDQUW7cdIMA/s640/Promo6.png" width="640" /></a></div></i><span style="position: relative;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;"><i>*That was Prologue of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now in multiple formats (eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook) on</i></span></span><em><span face="" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; letter-spacing: 0.32px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #676767;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution-ebook-dp-B082VJYTHM/dp/B082VJYTHM/" style="transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;">Amazon</span></a><span style="color: #676767;">, </span><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Syntellect-Hypothesis-Audiobook/B08FMWDDFW" style="transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;">Audible</span></a><span style="color: #676767;">, </span></span></em><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;"><i>from</i></span><em><span face="" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; letter-spacing: 0.32px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #676767;"> </span><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-syntellect-hypothesis-alex-m-vikoulov/1130559189?ean=9781987054484" style="transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;">Barnes & Noble</span></a><span style="color: #676767;"> </span></span></em><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;"><i>and directly from the publisher Ecstadelic Media Group at</i></span><em><span face="" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; letter-spacing: 0.32px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #676767;"> </span><a href="https://www.ecstadelic.net/store/c1/featured-products" style="transition: all 200ms ease-in 0s;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;">EcstadelicNET webstore</span></a><span style="color: #676767;">.</span></span></em><i><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;">**Image Credit: Shutterstock</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></div>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348360425846372407.post-90008837412494561482020-07-22T21:47:00.017-07:002020-07-25T14:00:53.474-07:00How Our Minds Construct Perspectives and Simultaneously Perceive Manifested Patterns of Reality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoQmFJKziCkfMi5RgKoJWIXzopSypuFov1devCcIBIuR4RUMdqEKx2nOLmvYxhu0V3eau22LtycM2NDE8Rfm6nTaveM2udiTKAdJ7caHT-WHTzIxUgLu1-fA7JDX9FrCfcpFrt4-Dryk/s1200/shutterstock_1248992.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoQmFJKziCkfMi5RgKoJWIXzopSypuFov1devCcIBIuR4RUMdqEKx2nOLmvYxhu0V3eau22LtycM2NDE8Rfm6nTaveM2udiTKAdJ7caHT-WHTzIxUgLu1-fA7JDX9FrCfcpFrt4-Dryk/w640-h334/shutterstock_1248992.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><i style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><blockquote><blockquote>"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth." -Simone de Beauvoir</blockquote></blockquote></i></blockquote></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #676767; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #676767; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><font size="6"><b>A</b></font>bsolute truths are hard to come by, which is the basic premise of ‘hyper-perspectivism’. Rather, truths are always in the eyes of the beholder, truths are always observer-relative, truths are “made” by a “truth-maker.” You can approach our multifaceted reality from an incredibly large number of angles. Everything is perspectival, in other words, it all depends on your perspective, your frame of reference.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Since our informational world is of mental abstractive construction (as I make my case in <i>The Syntellect Hypothesis</i>), it’s always up to you to decide what’s real to you – everything you find real is indeed real to you, not necessarily real to others who are at the same time, for a lack of a better word, your past and future incarnations. We all are different points of view on oneself, within our own holographic self-reflection. We all are like droplets on the cobweb of reality reflecting one another. That said, like any other ideology or methodology, science is not always to be taken for absolute truth – it’s a collection of systematized up-to-date knowledge with provisional models of reality. </font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">To any unique perspective what’s really important is contextual relevance and logical consistency. What’s relevant? To scientists who are trained skeptics, hard evidence preferably mathematized and peer-reviewed is a convertible currency. But then again, in most cases we first invent a concept or a theoretical model and then math to back them up. Given enough time, even “hard evidence” is usually swept away with unavoidable paradigm-shifting intellectual progress. A clever adage (some attribute it to </font><span style="font-family: verdana;">Albert Einstein) sums it up: <i>"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."</i> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">British mathematician George Box used to say that </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">"all models are wrong but some are useful."</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I’m not denigrating our scientific achievements, on the contrary, they are the keys for higher levels of the game.</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">As Buddha once famously said, as quoted in Kalama Sutta: <i>“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”</i></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">You are the ultimate reality, change the perspective and your life becomes a mirage. Examine a DNA molecule through an electron microscope, or observe Earth from orbit, or drop LSD for innerspace psychedelica, and you’ll ascertain equally valid layers of hyperreality accessible to us modern humans. These “layers of truth” would seem very weird to a prehistoric caveman, and levels of hyperreality are going to turn out far stranger than our wildest imaginings.</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Without invoking mysticism, Andy Clark’s Extended Mind hypothesis and Marshall McLuhan’s Media Extensions of Man put forth that consciousness is not confined to the body. As journalist Michael Pollan argues in his recent book <i>“How to Change Your Mind”</i> (2018) about psychedelics, if any of us were to experience another person’s inner world it would likely feel like a psychedelic trip, given how outlandish the sensations and observations would be. In a manner of speaking, we’ve been living in culturally sanctioned virtuality as long as we’ve been human beings. Philosopher Nietzsche emphasized that there are no facts only interpretations. The constructs of our conscious minds direct our interpretations and memories to <i>‘in’</i>-form the reality we constantly create.</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Even if you subscribe to philosophy of scientific materialism, when you end up believing that Homo sapiens is an accidental, insignificant species on a unremarkable planet orbiting an average sun somewhere on the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy of the ‘block universe’, this view still could hold <i>bona fide</i> in its own “good ol’ science” domain albeit overall “boxy.” It’s like when you start ascending on a hot air balloon from the valley, all outlooks are “legit” but dependent on how high you float in the air. At low altitude, you still see leaves on the trees and other small objects. The higher you ascend, the further you can see, the grander perspective on the valley you shall behold.</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Some people remain oblivious, and some stubbornly myopic of the self-evidence of computational, fractal and self-referential Nature – it’s a “matryoshka” of conscious systems. You’re smack in the middle co-producing your own experiential reality. As <i>YOU</i>-niverse of ever-expanding structures of consciousness, you’re not marginalized, unless you belittle yourself, despite proselytizing attempts in certain parts of traditionally objective-reductionist science to indoctrinate its soulless dead-end philosophy without meaning or purpose.</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Although the organizing principles of the contemporary scientific theories vary, all strive to uphold some version of the so-called relationalism of 17th- and 18th-century German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Broadly speaking, relationalism holds that space emerges from a certain pattern of correlations among objects it contains. In this view, space is a web of relationships with a certain pattern of connectivity. The relations are predicated on quantum theory or other principles, and the spatial arrangement arises from that.</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">In my everyday life, I cannot operate from only one fixed perspective, at any given moment I have to choose the most appropriate outlook deemed relevant by my mind; conflicting beliefs may be on the “scroll-down menu,” too. An idealist as I am, no matter how hard I try, I can’t help but refer to objects and people grounded in the material world. But using this kind of perspectivism as an argument against philosophical grounding of various models of reality can lead to hyper-perspectivism. Modern perspectivism rooted in the personal or collective logic which shapes its scope can be transcended through construction of hyper-perspectivistic prisms based on oftentimes unexpected multi-disciplinary interrelationships. All you have to do is to connect the dots in your own unique kind of way.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="verdana"> </font></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Alex Vikoulov </i></span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_A4ifg666odY1xjs6ciy5jIMxRJFxrMDzwiTsQxY53FrOHEXS3umGSVnLf9yUrInsy8r5kBwHix8QHDeXFFWoSmrfngSCBIzXtFvlWr1za6MtDs_K828HXcLkc-PvnRAlCRzbBxFJPqg/s320/Front+Cover+%255B2020e%255D.png" /></a></div></span></i><i style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font color="#424242">*Adapted from </font><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/1733426140" style="color: #656565;"><font color="#9e9e9e">The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution</font></a><font color="#424242"> by Alex M. Vikoulov</font></i></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></div><font face="helvetica"><span></span></font><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">**Image Credit: Shutterstock</span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote>Alex Vikoulovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447124535511321078noreply@blogger.com4