On Becoming One (Collective Consciousness and the Fermi Paradox)
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#2An addictive, codependent, smothering one-ness delivered with unquestioning religious fervour sounds like something I’d start an armed resistance against.
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#3An addictive, codependent, smothering one-ness delivered with unquestioning religious fervour sounds like something I’d start an armed resistance against.
I imagine many people will feel the same way. Do you think the Oneness will let you alone or pull you in for your own good :-)
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#4It will happen across such a long and large gradient that no one will know or ever understand it.
Does a single ant “know” what the whole colony wants? Yet one can describe the colony as a whole in many ways: finding food, reacting to threats, etc.
Does a single neuron “know” it is part of a brain? Yet the brain acts as a system, responding to stimuli in a coordinated fashion.
Hypothesis: we are already “one”, we just don’t know it, and can never truly know it, at an individual level.
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#5It will happen across such a long and large gradient that no one will know or ever understand it. Does a single ant “know” what the whole colony wants? Yet one can describe the colony as a whole in many ways: finding food, reacting to threats, etc. Does a single neuron “know” it is part of a brain? Yet the brain acts as a system, responding to stimuli in a coordinated fashion. Hypothesis: we are already “one”, we jus…
We will become 'one' who we will be able to actually understand.
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#6An addictive, codependent, smothering one-ness delivered with unquestioning religious fervour sounds like something I’d start an armed resistance against.
I imagine many people will feel the same way. Do you think the Oneness will let you alone or pull you in for your own good :-)
If you can communicate with it at all, you have already been pulled in.
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#7It will happen across such a long and large gradient that no one will know or ever understand it. Does a single ant “know” what the whole colony wants? Yet one can describe the colony as a whole in many ways: finding food, reacting to threats, etc. Does a single neuron “know” it is part of a brain? Yet the brain acts as a system, responding to stimuli in a coordinated fashion. Hypothesis: we are already “one”, we jus…
I like the analogy to neurons but since we are sentient being this is a second order collective and I think we will know, at least to a degree, that we are merging.
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#8This reads like a Markov chain with Ray Kurzweil and the script to Evangelion as input.
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#9This reads like a Markov chain with Ray Kurzweil and the script to Evangelion as input.
I'll take that as a compliment. I think.
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#10I've often thought along these same lines (c.f. Asimov's Galaxia concept) but I think that this one-ness will inherently be limited by distance. Thoughts can be propagated across a planet pretty quickly but if we become a multi-planet civilization I would expect each planet to have it's own "one mind" (or whatever you want to call it) simply because of communication latency.