In 50—50000 years, the anthropozene will be over and all large mammals are extinct. After a 50M—500M years, there may be a new generally intelligent species. I'd like to seed orbit and lithosphere with messages to them, to jumpstart their epistemology and to show them our art.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
50M years ago our direct ancestors were basically little squirrels.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I have little hope for our mind children. We will make them ruthlessly efficient devourers, at least one of them. Evolution had so much slack that it gave rise to a few of us dreamers. Intelligence and fitness are just pointless.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes, but it needs a mind with a similarly shaped soul to host it.
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Replying to @Plinz
This is a major theme in the book I am about to finish writing. Do you believe that all humans have similarly shaped souls or that there's variability among our souls?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
The soul can be thought of as the differential between you and a perfectly rational agent. There are obviously very differently shaped souls, sufficiently characteristic that we also map the souls of others to recognize our own tribe, and those we love.
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It is probably not a good idea to publicly compare our taxonomies of souls, but perhaps one day we can talk about it in person.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
But we can say that the soul is literally the relationship of the individual to its Gods. God is the identification of a superorganism from the perspective of the individual. Most Gods are aligned with social entities, but ours are purely transcendental.
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