From: Mike Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 09:39:35 MDT
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"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
> Michael S. Lorrey has written,
>
> > 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.
>
> Then again, if the singularity uses the atoms in rocks to increase its memory
> banks, eventually we all may become part of the singularity.
Conciously or unconciously?
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