DNA as a storage medium means we could pretty much keep data even through cataclysmic circumstances.
the digital world changed the world into components that allow us to manifest and store our digital cyberspace .
as such physical matter takes a backseat to information.
information, the blue print, becomes autonomous, and starts to make the world in its image .
its quite possible our existence in this form is due to organic yet artificial technology that we have (at least on occasion) mis-perceived as 'natural'.
but how do you think an artificial Nature without falling into creationism or something as equally asinine?
The answer is in the very appearance of nature I think . before the digital age the world was analogue the world was a co-component to the reality, we needed to play by the world's rules to go our own way now it is more that we have subjected the world to our new digital rules, while analogue still accepted and cooperated with the stochastic and fragmentary essence of nature.
analogue still accepted and cooperated with the stochastic essence of nature, digital tries to make everything entirely predictable, meaningful (via ideology of greatest utility etc.) but perhaps with quantum computing the digital and the analogue can be more properly introduced, and fair better alongside one another,
like is it not the case that in the digital age we want information now now now, but we still have to lumber around on meat sticks we call legs and take stupid cars and public transport to get anywhere physically. the physical has become the handicap, and as such the cure (via digital) is immanent to the situation we can get information nigh-instantaneously, but not the face-to-face stuff. Not all meatspace sensory phenomena
but if full sensory HUD VR simulations are possible in the future, with brain-to-computer interfaces, its clear we should always-already be in such a situation and we're no closer to working out how this change would really change things. taking off the VR helmet doesn't work when its VR helmets all the way down, films around the late 90s such as eXisTenZ comes to mind
it works to prove that our sensory experience is virtual, but where is the 'real' experience behind this screen?
the limit of essences
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