Bootstrapping God

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Wow, so I've just stumbled upon this whole "consciousness singularity" idea (yay, more singularities!) which is essentially that the amount of intelligence in the universe is increaing in an exponential trend and will eventually reach some sort of limit where the universe has been completely consumed by consciousness.

 

Then I found this little piece someone wrote:

 

http://www.decillion.us/dmax/essays/BootStrappingGod-orig.html

 

Here's what he had to say about it:

 

I wrote a short essay entitled "Bootstrapping God" which I published on my then nascent web site in 1999. Influenced by several books I was digesting at the time, including The Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler, After the Clockwork Universe by Sally J. Goerner and Pierre Tielhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man, the thought awakened in me during the spring of that year that perhaps God was indeed a future event. It occured to me that given our limited scope, it may be that, as Chardin speculated, the increase in complexity and intelligence that seems to be the teleology of Life will ultimately give rise to an Omega Point of effectively infinite intelligence in what is for us the future. And it is that future event that is reaching back and forming the past, as it were, to pull the past forward to Him.

 

And yeah, that's pretty much what I believe, that we're heading towards a future where the amount of intelligence in the universe continues to balloon exponentially and we are basically sitting on the knee of the curve, right before the intelligence "explosion" happens.

 

I've thought for a long time that we're soon going to produce a distributed, redundant network of self-replicating nanorobots that will provide the ultimate material platform for human collective intelligence to accomplish anything it wants to, and that these nanorobots will essentially swarm and consume the entire universe.

 

So yeah, just another thread in the same theme of others I've posted before. I think I'll change my signature.