I’m skeptical of this claim. It seems that the body of evidence now suggests that this universe is not going to undergo a Big Crunch, which means that if there had been previous cycles, this is the last one. This seems very unlikely. I’d put very little credence therefore in this sort of claim until we see how it fits with other data and models.
Moreover, this shouldn’t make transhumanists that happy. Even if this has occurred in the past, there’s likely a limit to how much information must have been transferable into useful forms given that we don’t see evidence of any entities from the last cycle.
I’m skeptical of this claim. It seems that the body of evidence now suggests that this universe is not going to undergo a Big Crunch, which means that if there had been previous cycles, this is the last one. This seems very unlikely. I’d put very little credence therefore in this sort of claim until we see how it fits with other data and models.
Moreover, this shouldn’t make transhumanists that happy. Even if this has occurred in the past, there’s likely a limit to how much information must have been transferable into useful forms given that we don’t see evidence of any entities from the last cycle.