Unification across space-time dimensions.
February 29 2008 / by Virulent
Category: The Web Year: Beyond Rating: 8
As the lines between human and biological entities blur, and sophisticated mind communication networks are formed, what could be the potential impacts on society? 
Imagine a world some point during the middle of the 21st century where virtual communities and direct mind to mind communication is possible at ever increasing speeds, Where human-machine entities can share information they choose at near the speed of light from any positions on the globe, imagine being able to understand almost as if it were your own cognitive processes how to read and write Japanese as someone from japan, or understand medicine or physics like a PhD graduate.
Difficult to imagine? Perhaps sounding a bit like the Borg from star-trek? well resistance is futile because the explosive nature of Nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and most importantly information transfer all point towards a future much more vast and incomprehensible than this.
Since the dawn of single celled organisms life has grown to complex networks of single cells to organisms to human cognition itself and each explosion is not only an explosion in the capability to manipulate and adapt to the environment, its also an explosion in consciousness itself. And best of all it functions on very simple evolutionary principles that hold to this day (albeit in a slightly more complex batch of interactions).
To imagine what i mean think of a petri dish called earth and place inside that petri dish one single celled organism, provide it with a suitable environment and watch it divide exponentially till copies of itself cover the whole petri dish. Well then what? (cont.)
After a time environmental factors will kick in and mutation will occur, for simplicity lets stick to three types of single cell organisms all originating from the same source but remarkably different in appearance and function. And so these cells war it out over space, resources, food, and keep reproducing and mutating until eventually they begin to co-operate and share chemical information and pow! we have a multi-cellular organism.
And just as the single cells did the organism will do four things:
Reproduce. Mutate. Fight. Unify.
And so on and so forth (forgive me for over simplification but I’m trying to address the basic “code of life” here) and this continues until humans appear.
Now humans albeit are sophisticated but if you observe the history of the human race we have always replicated, formed our boundaries of culture and society and fought our wars but gradually we have been becoming more tolerant of one another and finally in the 21st century we will unify into the next super-conscious entity an entity as smart as every human being on the planet by far and more loving and gentle and emotional (since emotion is higher cognition) than anything else we have previously encountered.
The collective mind body of the entire human species, connected through a web of seamlessly integrated brain-machine and augmented by our own will into higher states of consciousness reserved only to perhaps only mystics or drug users.
And life has been unifying into higher complex states of consciousness all along, and each one is exponentially vaster than the previous one. For instance examine the cambrian explosion,the development of language, the dawn of the human up until the internet and artificial intelligence.
And this consciousness to consciousness transfer is also increasing vastly from “simple” chemical messages to grunts to language to books and email and blogs themselves.
So lets expand our consciousness further, lets spiral out a little (one for the tool fans) what happens when we can process simultaneously our own experience of reality, and another human beings, what if we can literally “meld” well i see that happening day in and day out with social interactions, i consider the internet itself to be a “super-neuronal network” almost like a prosthetic extension of our consciousness into space and time.
Fans of the parallel universes theory will enjoy my next statement: Now you have that all down imagine that another human being IS a parallel space-time dimension, because is it not true that they experience a reality completely seperate from our own unique perspective? even their interpretation of colors and sounds and emotions as well as their more logical thoughts.
I forsee in the next century a grand unification theory.. where human beings ascend into a collective mind body of what might be considered absurd or godlike right now. Its as though consciousness itself has divided much like the single cell into separate forms of itself across space time, and now it is re-unifying as we learn to communicate better.
Magical huh, not to mention becoming the architect(s) of alternate realities where perhaps we could design new adventures for ourselves.. The possibilities are limitless.
