From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 12:00:01 MDT
Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> > > Eventually everything goes to hell anyway and one has to
> > > wonder what you preserve of your self when you enter the
> > > Singularity, since by definition you come out the other
> > > side as something you can't possibly comprehend.
> >
> > It may be something that I cannot comprehend *right now*,
> > however if you followed the Vinge singularity discussion
> > archived at extropy, look at my diagram of the
> > participant's eye view of the singularity, and you will
> > see that as long as I maintain a continuity of me-ness, I
> > know that it will be, in fact, me that will eventually
> > comprehend the singularity as I pass through it.
>
> Can I comprehend being a rock, if I make the change
> gradually?
Eventually we all become rock, at some point after death. ;)
David Brin utilized the concious rock idea a couple times in his two uplift
trilogies. One being a race of deep burrowers on the planet Kithrup, and another
being psychic lava related to the 'Buyur'. I imagine that translating our
uploaded mentalities to survive in a lava environment may be one direction for
humans to take in or after the singularity.
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