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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Replying to @Plinz
The most common forms of tribalism, however, do seem far more algorithmic than the development of the soul.
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I now think that we are NOT a tribal species. We are a state building species, while tribes are reputation and group based singletons. Homo Neanderthaliensis was tribal, and we obliterated them. The evolution of the soul was part of this.
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Replying to @Plinz
The evolution of the soul and obliteration of Homo neanderthalensis was largely due to storytelling capacity and meaning making.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes, the latter is the identification with extrapersonal purposes, the former a tool to achieve convergence.
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