The Biological Omega Point Hypothesis
 The
Anthropic Cosmological Principle
by John Barrows and Frank Tipler
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In this book Barrows and Tipler suggests that "At the instant the Omega
Point is reached, life will have gained control over all matter
and and forces not only in a single universe, but in all universes
whose existence is logically possible; life will have spread into all
spatial regions in all universes which could logically exist, and will
have stored an infinite amount of information, including all bits
of knowledge which it is logically possible to know" How this is
so is expanded on in his next book called The Physics of Immortality. |
 The
Physics of Immortality
by Frank Tipler
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This is "a book that postulates mathematical proof of the existence
of God, guarantees the resurrection of the dead, and promises that, for
those who so desire, there will be sex in heaven" (Booklist). He
offers "a cosmological theory he calls the Omega Point, based on the expansion
of intelligent life to fill the known universe" (Kirkus Reviews)
He suggests that thinking machine descendants of humans will colonize the
universe and convert the universe into computing capacity. |
Tipler's thinking machines may be thought of as the postbiological post-human
offspring of the Transhumans who seek the mind uploading or "mental transplantation"
describe elsewhere on this web site as a very speculative possibility.
Because of this "logical?" extension of the neural implant/ nanotechnology/
mind uploading thread exploration, I thought a page like this would be
appropriate though quite metaphysical.
 The
Millennial Project
by Marshall T. Savage
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Marshall Savage is author of the Millennial Project and founder of
the First Millennial Foundation. Primarily, he has a plan to "Colonize
the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" as he subtitle suggests. However, his cosmic
views are quite reminiscent of the Omega Point Hypothesis: |
| "Within a thousand millennia, the whole majestic pinwheel of the Milky
Way will be saturated with the lush aquamarine light of a hundred billion
living suns. We will have created a living galaxy-seed
of a living universe. Then the animate flame will leap the
firebreak between galaxies and ignite new blazes among the great star clusters
in the outer universe. The process will continue, unremitting, for
the eternal life of the Cosmos."
Note: emphasis
is my own - (Savage, 1992, page 19)
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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) a 19th century philosopher, wrote an essay
in 1906 called "Creative Evolution". In this essay he suggest that
"evolution is the history of the effort of life to free
itself from the domination of matter and to achieve self-consciousness"
(Roth, 1990, page 478) This effort is the vital principle or élan
vital has various experiments as represented by the many branches
and kingdoms of life extant today and extinct (sometimes in the fossil
record).
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