07-29-2010, 07:08 AM
It's been a few months since I've read [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near] but it's probably the first time I actually considered the possibility that I'd live together. I've always hoped I could achieve immortality - not believing in an afterlife can have this effect on people - and being an science geek there are things billions of light years away I'd like to experience first hand. If the universe is anything near what we think it might be then it would be a long long time before I found myself bored if I could be out exploring the stars. Also, it wouldn't be so terrible to transcend into something like a matrioshka brain or something analogous. About the only thing I find more frightning than my existence abruptly ending an me ceasing to exist for the rest of the eternity is the though of being trapped and only able to observe for the rest of time.
Currently a PoE junkie. Wheeeeee