I stopped reading at "your consciousness is capable of communicating with gazillions of other entities from outside this physical realm/plane anytime."
G On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:51 AM, just camel via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > > 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: > >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M49cef0784efffba35b508c58> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T81817474dba9a838-M5fc6907de7c19a0962fb8352 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups