So you don’t think you could catch up? If you had been frozen somewhere between −10000 and −100 years and revived now, don’t you think you could start learning what the heck it is people are doing and understand nowadays? Besides a lot of the pre-freeze life-experience would be fully applicable to present. Everyone starts learning from the point of birth. You’d have headway compared to those who just start out from nothing.
There are things we can meaningfully contribute to even in a Sysop universe, filled with Minds. We, after all, are minds, too, which have the inherent quality of creativity—creating new, evermore elegant and intricate patterns—at whatever our level is, and self-improvement; optimization.
So you don’t think you could catch up? If you had been frozen somewhere between −10000 and −100 years and revived now, don’t you think you could start learning what the heck it is people are doing and understand nowadays? Besides a lot of the pre-freeze life-experience would be fully applicable to present. Everyone starts learning from the point of birth. You’d have headway compared to those who just start out from nothing.
There are things we can meaningfully contribute to even in a Sysop universe, filled with Minds. We, after all, are minds, too, which have the inherent quality of creativity—creating new, evermore elegant and intricate patterns—at whatever our level is, and self-improvement; optimization.
Bored? Got nothing meaningful to do? Try science.