From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 01:02:09 MDT
spike66 wrote:
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
>> We are subsets of the universe, subsets with internal states shifting
>> according to our strivings and directing our external actions. Hence our
>> strivings and actions are the internal strivings and actions of the
>> universe. In a way we are the mental subprocesses of it. So we better
>> awake ourselves and the universe in the process of making it greater.
>
> WOW Anders, this is terrific! This is some of the most profound thoughts
> I have seen on extropians in weeks.
>
A way I sometimes view it is that we are a cosmic
post-Singularity intelligence experiencing (or possibly
remembering) its own becoming. It provides that wierd bigger
than your head echoing significance to it all. :-)
- samantha
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