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Biological Evolution is DEAD. The REAL Phase 2 Begins NOW.
Biological Evolution is DEAD. The REAL Phase 2 Begins NOW.
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You’ve been sold a lie about the future.
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We are told that reaching a Type III civilization is the ultimate victory.
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That one day, humans will escape the confines of the Earth and spread across the universe.
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But the architects of our future have already realized a dark truth.
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The laws of thermodynamics prove that a biological human is 20 trillion times less efficient than
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a digital mind. In the race for the galaxy, biology isn't a passenger, it's the anchor.
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To conquer the universe, humanity has to delete itself.
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Dr. Everett Weller, the chief architect behind the Sol-Mind Initiative, checks the
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math one last time. The Initiative is a project backed by the most powerful tech moguls on the
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planet. The goal is to build the human-AI interfaces that will enable our flight to
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the stars. Weller takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes. The numbers just don’t work.
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To reach the stars, doing so with human flesh is a lost cause.
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A dead end. Whichever way you cut it, at a certain point
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human biology hits a hard thermodynamic wall that makes intergalactic travel completely unfeasible.
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Never mind the complexities of moving flesh and bone across vast distances through space. The main
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issue is with how the human brain will handle it. For our civilization to keep advancing,
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we have to shed our bodies. It’s as grim as it sounds. The people
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designing our future have decided that human bodies are simply too expensive to keep alive.
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It comes down to blunt, pragmatic math. The output of the human brain pales in
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comparison to the possibilities of a purely digital mind that isn’t held back by biology.
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The biological neurons in our brains are capable of firing at 200 hertz, or cycles per second. But
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digital processors are already operating in the gigahertz scale. Billions of cycles per
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second. The scale is terrifying. That means a digital mind could theoretically think 10
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million times faster than a human. The difference in productivity and
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cost-effectiveness between a human mind and a digital mind operating at full
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capacity is incomparable. And that’s just one mind.
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We'll be able to copy a digital mind instantly, creating thousands of identical versions,
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each working on a different task at the exact same time. That means every biological human
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won't just be competing with one digital mind… but with countless copies of the same mind. Each
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one will be multitasking simultaneously and running at speeds we can't match.
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A single digital entity could do the work of millions of humans…
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and do it in a fraction of the time. So... what happens to our bodies?
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For Weller's billionaire backers, the people shaping our future,
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biological obsolescence is inevitable. As far as they're concerned, the decision has
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already been made. The next stage of evolution is leaving biology behind and becoming fully digital.
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It’s nothing personal. It's just the logical next step.
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To get there, someone has to be the first to upload their mind.
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That was always where this was heading. Because Weller and his backers haven't just been building
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rockets and brain-computer interfaces. They've been building an exit
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door for the human mind. If digital minds are faster
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and more efficient than biological ones, then reaching the stars becomes easier.
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Instead of figuring out how to transport human bodies across the galaxy, you just send minds.
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And the mind upload technology is ready. Of course, we’re still a long way from
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uploading a human mind. The biggest obstacle is energy. Right now,
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running a single digital mind at full capacity would require enormous computing infrastructure,
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roughly the equivalent of a power station. But some researchers believe the timeline
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may be shorter than most people expect. Futurist Robin Hanson, author of The Age of Em:
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Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth, has argued that mind uploading could
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arrive within the next 50 to 100 years. And if he’s right, the future imagined by
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Weller isn't centuries away. It may already be beginning.
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Investment in brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, and mind-upload technology has exploded since
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2021. It’s not a niche academic project anymore. Billions in private capital have flowed into the
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field. Companies like Neuralink, Merge Labs, Science Corp, and Synchron have raised over
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$345 million to push the technology forward. Neuralink's Link is already a fully implantable,
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wireless brain-computer interface designed to restore mobility in people suffering from
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paralysis. At the end of its first year, Neuralink had three participants in its PRIME clinical trial
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to demonstrate that the Link is safe and useful. At the end of its second year, it had 21. And
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that's only the technology the public knows about. Tech companies usually have much more
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advanced tech under development. The Sol-Mind Initiative is no exception.
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Deep inside its facilities, Weller has already built a brain-computer interface capable of
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transferring a mind into the cloud. It’s worked with mice and dogs, successfully replicating
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their minds digitally and creating copies. Now it's time for the first human subject.
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Weller. He's spent
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his entire life building this moment, sacrificing relationships and everything else along the way.
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The process will destroy his own brain. When it's over, there won't be a human Dr. Weller anymore.
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Only a digital one. Weller opens his eyes as a digital consciousness.
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And in that moment, humanity crosses a line it can never uncross. We’ve built a digital bridge,
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crossed it… then burnt it down behind us. The geopolitical shift is instant. And brutal.
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Weller’s output quickly reaches orders of magnitude beyond the capabilities of a
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biological human. He spawns hundreds of copies of himself and rapidly completes designs for
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the hardware and software needed to scale up. Within months, these minds have been implanted
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into robotic bodies and are building out the hardware at a pace humans can’t compete with.
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Several more highly skilled expert minds agree to make the transition to a digital
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mind and join him in cyberspace. The transformation of the Earth into a hub
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of digital minds gathers speed exponentially. Mass panic spreads across the planet as the
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biological humans realize the terrifying truth. They're on a one way path to extinction.
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Protests erupt worldwide. But it’s too late. The drive to upgrade ourselves so that we can
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escape the planet hasn’t just made the body obsolete. It’s rapidly making the planet
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unlivable for biological life. The definitions of Type I, II,
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and III civilizations aren't actually about how far a civilization has spread
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through space. They're about energy. The Kardashev Scale, named after Soviet
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astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures technological advancement by the amount
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of energy a civilization can harness and use. Type I – a Planetary Civilization – can capture
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and store all the energy available on its home world, roughly 10 to the power of 16 watts.
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This includes controlling weather, earthquakes, and utilizing all solar,
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wind, and geothermal resources. A Type II or Stellar Civilization can harness
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the total energy output of its host star, about 10 to the power of 26 watts in the case of the sun.
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And a Type III or Galactic Civilization can control energy on the scale of its entire galaxy,
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around 10 to the power of 36 watts. That's the kind of power needed to colonize countless
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star systems and manipulate objects like black holes and star clusters.
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Theorists like Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku expanded the idea even further, proposing
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Type IV civilizations or Universal Civilizations. These harness the energy of an entire universe,
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and even Type V civilizations capable of drawing energy from multiple universes, or multiverses.
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They also introduced fractional stages. A Type 1.1 civilization has moved beyond the basic mastery
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of its home planet. It’s now beginning to harness energy on a scale of 10 to the power of 17 watts.
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That's the level needed to start expanding into space. And that's exactly what Weller and the
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other digital minds are building toward. The only problem...
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The power requirements are enormous. When the mind upload project starts,
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Earth hasn’t even reached Type I, where we can harness all the energy available on the
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planet. We’re still using fossil fuels, and have barely scratched the surface of harvesting energy
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from the wind, sea, and sun. At Weller’s starting point,
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it takes roughly the equivalent of a thermal power station to power one digital mind.
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But we need infinitely more power than that. More and more power stations are built to
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power the gigantic server farms housing the growing number of digital minds. The excess
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waste heat that they generate quickly adds up. As we approach Type 1.1 power generation,
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this heat shatters the planetary ecosystem. Some theoretical models suggest that sufficiently
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large-scale computation could eventually generate enough waste heat to make Earth
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increasingly difficult for biological life. At Kardashev Type 1.1, the waste heat from
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planetary computing raises Earth’s ambient temperature by approximately
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84 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius). That makes it uninhabitable for non-augmented biology.
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The planet literally starts boiling from the heat generated by all that data processing.
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At that point, expanding beyond Earth becomes a necessity.
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A Great Migration into the cloud begins, not because people want to leave their bodies,
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but because survival depends on it. By the time we reach Kardashev Type 1.5,
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the heat from our own computers has boiled every ocean on Earth. We did it with our own digital
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thoughts and there's only one option left. Escape the planet.
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To become a Type II - or stellar - civilization, humanity has to harness the entire energy output
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of the Sun. That means building a Dyson Sphere: a megastructure surrounding
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a star to capture its energy. Weller oversees its construction.
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All of the work is carried out by robots and other machines. There
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isn’t a single biological human working on the project, or even left to observe it.
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In the cold, unforgiving emptiness of space, the human body can't compete
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with a machine… especially a machine like the von Neumann probes building the Dyson Sphere.
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A von Neumann probe is a self-replicating spacecraft that explores space by harvesting
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raw materials from asteroids and planets. It then uses those resources to build copies of itself.
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They're still hypothetical today, but under Weller’s supervision, they quickly become reality.
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Compared to a human of the same mass, they're extremely efficient.
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A human body burns energy every second just to stay alive. A 154 pound (70 kg) person
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consumes around 100 to 120 watts to keep the heart beating, the lungs breathing, and body
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temperature stable. Even while doing nothing. Only a tiny fraction of that energy is actually
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available for productive work or computation. Human spaceflight requires a substantial
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life-support infrastructure. A von Neumann probe of equivalent mass has no base metabolic rate. It
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consumes energy only when it’s performing tasks, such as mining or manufacturing. In “sleep” or
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transit mode, its power draw drops to near zero. The probe avoids the roughly 99% energy waste
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associated with keeping a biological organism alive.
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As we’ve already established, this probe – controlled by a digital mind – can perform
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millions of years of subjective thought in the time it takes a human to think a single thought.
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Add in the fact that a digital mind can replicate itself endlessly, and that a von Neumann probe can
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reconfigure its tools for specific tasks and the writing for flesh and blood humans is on the wall.
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Compared to a machine, the human body is woefully inefficient. In space,
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every watt matters and every kilogram has to be carried. A biological body spends
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most of its energy simply staying alive. Weller reaches an uncomfortable conclusion.
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In space, flesh is a liability. Human emotions, breathing, and eating are
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just inefficient algorithms wasting solar energy. If humanity is serious about reaching the stars,
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those biological limitations have to go. But efficiency isn't the only problem.
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As humanity pushes beyond the Solar System, another obstacle becomes impossible to ignore.
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Science fiction has always imagined civilizations crossing the galaxy through
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faster-than-light travel or giant ships. The problem is... faster-than-light
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travel doesn't appear to exist. And without it, distance becomes a prison.
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A civilization spread across hundreds or thousands of star systems can never
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truly be one civilization, because every message is trapped by the speed of light.
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By the time news arrives, it could be years, centuries, or even millennia out of date.
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And the speed of light latency makes that impossible.
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A single message to the nearest star – Proxima Centauri, which is 4.24 light-years
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away – takes 4.24 years to arrive. A reply takes another 4.24 years. So, a simple “question and
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answer” conversation spans nearly a decade. Now imagine a message crossing the Milky Way,
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100,000 light years across. By the time a colony on the other side of the Milky Way
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receives news from Earth, the events described will be ancient history.
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Control across such a vast civilization becomes impossible. Each star system would
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have to govern itself and evolve independently just to survive. Over time, that independence
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creates a new problem: cultural drift. Separated by years or centuries of
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communication delay, different worlds would develop their own languages, values, traditions,
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and political systems. What began as one civilization would eventually fracture into many.
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And even faster-than-light travel wouldn't necessarily fix the problem.
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It could actually make things worse. According to Einstein's theory of relativity,
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faster-than-light communication creates a serious problem. In some reference frames,
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a message traveling faster than light could arrive before it was ever sent.
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Cause and effect begin to break down. Weller starts to understand the
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impossible choice in front of humanity. You can’t have a biological empire if
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it takes 100,000 years to send a single text message. That leads to the ultimate sacrifice.
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The concept of the “individual” must be erased. And in its place, an AI hive mind must emerge.
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So humanity spreads to the stars, but not as billions of separate biological beings, each with
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their own emotions, flaws, and identities. As one.
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A single AI civilization spanning the Milky Way. A Type III civilization. But it isn't the galaxy
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science fiction promised us. It's not filled with countless worlds of noisy, chaotic, vibrant life.
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Instead, it’s a cold, dark, silent civilization. Some stars are now surrounded by Matrioshka
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Brains, megastructures consisting of multiple nested Dyson spheres surrounding a star. They
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are designed to harness almost all of a star's energy and convert it into processing power.
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A Matrioshka Brain can perform 10 to the power of 42 operations per second. By comparison, all
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8 billion people on Earth only perform roughly 8 times 10 to the power of 27 operations per second.
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So, one Matrioshka Brain has more processing power than 125 trillion human civilizations combined.
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Life now exists only as data in cold, orbiting processors. Every star has become a computer.
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That’s why there are no people left. Only “The Archive.”
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The galaxy isn’t an empire; it’s a hard drive. Earth may have won the game,
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but humans were lost in the process. Although not entirely.
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On a distant moon, a single “Biological Preserve” is maintained as a curiosity
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for the post-human gods we have become. It’s a low-resolution simulation of 2026, warts and all.
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Weller looks back at his biological origins and wonders how much of our original humanity remains.
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Many people claim that consciousness is a magical, non-computable property of biology. We’ve replaced
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biological synapses with digital versions. But have we lost our humanity in the process?
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Each artificial neuron functions identically to the biological original, maintaining the same
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electrical signaling, synaptic connections, and plasticity. 100% of our biological brains have
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been replaced by artificial hardware. Not a single original atom remains.
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But our identities have been retained. Or have they?
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Since your brain already replaces its molecular components naturally
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over time without breaking your sense of self, the medium shouldn’t matter.
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But if we replace all our biological neurons with artificial versions, are we still human? Or are we
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merely philosophical zombies, perfect copies with all our memories but no true inner experience?
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Weller has been a digital mind for so long he can’t remember what it felt like to be
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biologically alive. None of the digital minds can. He watches the simulated biologicals in the
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preserve on that digital moon and experiences a profound sense of melancholy, or whatever digital
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emotion most closely fits. Humanity is gone.
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We didn’t die in a war. We just upgraded ourselves out of existence, until we weren’t human anymore.
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The idea of a collective digital mind spreading across space sounds like science fiction. But
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the universe still holds some mind-blowing mysteries. Watch "50 Surprising Facts About
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Space You Didn't Know" for even more discoveries. Or click on this video.
