Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Transcendence

In that limited portion of the multiverse accessible to us through our sense impressions we find various complex internal processes including life, intelligence, and consciousness. Quantum computing provides evidence that such patterning is present in the multiverse as a whole. Considering the vastness of the multiverse* it seems probable to me then that there very likely exist much more capable intelligent agents than us humans.

I hope that this is not just wishful thinking brought on by age and the threat of crazy Donald.

* See, for example, Wallace, The Emergent Multiverse, OUP, 2012, page 317.

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