Fermi's Paradox ... Once upon a time, a 10 year old child became addicted to Super Mario Land. He played so much that he forgot that he was a child among millions of other children and kept asking himself "Where are all the other Marios? There must be many more Marios? I will call this Fermi's Paradox!"
Already today thousands of advanced meditators will tell you that Fermi's Paradox is only a paradox as long as you don't realize that your consciousness is focusing on one particular and very narrow experience (called a human being) when your consciousness is capable of communicating with gazillions of other entities from outside this physical realm/plane anytime. When you attend a LAN-Party and play World of Warcraft and only find 5 of the 5000 LAN-Party participants in the game then clearly you realize that you are looking in the wrong spot and you shift your attention "outwards" and out of a subset of reality into a broader set of reality. An advanced civilization will probably cease to use manifested avatars on the physical plane once it has overcome the tendency to identify with narrow experiences. Just as children tend to overcome the tendency to identify with a narrow experience in the form of a computer game. The answer to Fermi's paradox lies in the words of Buddha, Jesus and all the other liberated/enlightened beings ... it lies in the realization that our physical reality is just an illusion within the field of consciousness ... it's a mix of John Smarts "transcension hypothesis" and in some sense Bostrom's work ... in so far that our perceived physical virtual reality is just a very tiny subset of a much larger reality. Physical death as well as spiritual enlightenment are singular processes decoupling your consciousness from one particular experience (from identifying with one human being) and they will introduce you to said much broader reality in which there exists no Fermi's paradox. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:50 PM Giacomo Spigler via AGI < agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > The idea has interesting implications for the Fermi Paradox, both in terms > of potential Great Filters ahead of us and in terms of the possible > development of advanced intelligent civilizations and their potential > desire to communicate or colonize the galaxy.Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M1072ad95d0c0a32afef469b2> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M49cef0784efffba35b508c58 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups
