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Digital Archaeology

We have real archaeology… digging around in the dirt.  How about digital archaeology?  The first computer programs.  The first computer programming concepts or constructs?  The first games?

What if the first ones were the most advanced ones?  What if that which created life was the most advanced algorithms known in the universe?  What if the past requires the future and the future requires the past?

What if the digital philosophy guys (Fredkin, etc) are right and we do in fact live in a computer?  It’s likely that we live in some kind of informational construct of sorts as most everything seems to some extent to be able to be broken down into multidimensional math/physics/philosophy, etc.

If we do live in such a construct, what is the possibility of accessing the substrate such that we can create an even more fantastical reality and do away with the pain and mundanity of “normal” life?  All life as fantasy?

If human intelligence is inherently artificial and organic, and possibly both, then searching for the origin of all that is certainly seems a worthy challenge.  What if the entire universe or multiverse is inside of a higher ordered construct that is managed by higher beings or aspects of nature that yield it to be as such?  So many stars… yet there don’t seem to be terribly many collisions… perhaps there are but perhaps they happen for a reason that we can not appreciate.  Perhaps it is for us to learn.

The Edge of Human Knowledge

People have likely wondered throughout time where exactly the edge of human knowledge truly lies.  This is likely an issue bound deeply in meta math, physics, chemistry, physiology, technology, linguistics, computation, philosophy, and a multitude of other areas of study.

I would however suggest that the edge of knowledge seems finite especially if one is simply to use combinatorics, informatics, permutations, and hashing of various concepts.  If quantum physics and science can be augmented or allows for things such as full blown magic, then it seems to me that a fantastical reality could exist or be created such that we could all live in this fantastical reality and not have to deal with the mundanity of real life, jobs, etc.

To get there however first requires the extents of human knowledge to be ascertained…. at least in theory.

Where is the edge of the Internet?  Who are the modern Einsteins of our day?  Where are the thought leaders taking us?  The biggest things we hear about these days are time travel, grand unification theories, teleportation, and artificial intelligence… is this all we can come up with?  Perhaps a grander reality is fully constrained by the physical world.  If a world could be created and lived inside of that is almost entirely pure fantasy, should it be created, can it even exist, and would you want to live within it?

English as a language seems pretty simple.  What if English does not allow for the efficient description of these new worlds or perhaps a newer more efficient language needs to be created…  or intuitive communications of sorts, whether mental, graphical, or from other points of view.

It seems that the periodic table as a construct is fairly basic and that the various elements simply plug in to an existing framework.  This framework seems to exist outside of the math and physics… perhaps an informational construct… perhaps there is a basic framework or construct to everything that exists that can simply be augmented, extrapolated, and built upon.

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