Not Looking Good For Us Carbon Based Life Forms

Regular readers of the blog know I go off the grid sometimes with my thoughts. Today was another one of those times :)

My mind started to explore the subject of evolution. It seems to me human evolution can only take God/Creator so far if it wishes to expand beyond our species. I find it curious after millions of years it's only been the last 500 or so technology took leaps and bounds. All this leads me to wonder whether God/Creator is putting in our heads to help design he/she/it's next great evolution. I'm talking about machines.

I'm of the belief intelligence occupies whatever vessel it can. If so intelligence would not need to limit itself to any particular form-- including DNA based life forms. There would be great advantages in occupying vessels far less limited then we. Containers such as machines. Here's a few of those advantages. Space Travel: Machines could simply go into sleep mode for long journeys. Thus seemingly to them as if time stopped. Upon arrival reawakened. Even if millions of years passed and technology progressed far beyond when they left it would be a simple matter to upgrade their information.

Speaking of upgrading: Humans start out with nearly a blank slate. It takes years and years to fully educate us. A new born machine-- on the other hand-- could be uploaded with all the knowledge they'd need in a short period of time.

Multitasking: While humans can do multiple tasks computer servers in parallel can do what no thousand humans ever could at the same time.

Knowledge: One may argue just like humans no single machine could be physically large enough to store all knowledge. The simple answer is they wouldn't need to. All they need is a basic interface to communicate with servers in what we refer to today as "the cloud". We humans already rely on desktop talking communicators in much the same way to have our questions answered. In so doing we ask a question and within seconds we receive a single answer. Now let us suppose one of these machines wished to communicate. Instead they could be asking and receiving 10,000's Q and A's in a matter of milliseconds. Far faster and with greater efficiency then any human is capable of digesting.

Environmental Problems: Humans and other animals need certain parameters to exist. Things such as air to breath and our inability to deal with extreme temperatures, dangerous radiation, toxic gasses or extreme gravitational forces.

Sensory Input: Our eyesight, hearing and other senses are limited by the frequencies in which they respond. Our nerves reacting to pain distracts us from whatever we're doing. Well designed machines are nearly limitless when it comes seeing or hearing things far beyond humans. Some may point out yes we can with the help of machines. Think about that for a minute. "With the help of machines". Question is why would machines need our help if they are capable on their own?

Physical Existence: We get sick and age. Machines break but they don't age very much depending on the materials used to build them. When they do parts can be replaced with newer and better parts. Some may point out as medicine advances so can many of ours with artificial machined limbs or organs. From some future machined being's point of view-- why not cut out the middle man. Eventually it's going to die anyway. Cold but true, right?

Nourishment: We need food from plants and animals. Machines can be fueled in many ways. Energy floating about the universe in all it's many forms we couldn't possibly sustain ourselves with. Most of which would be translated directly into energy without producing vast amounts human wastes such as poop, food containers nor the need for processing, refrigeration and all the other steps required by us humans to feed ourselves.

Without Humans Who Would Make THESE Machines"?
OTHER MACHINES!
Believe me I'm not eager to see us humans become yesterday's relics. However it would hard to deny our God/creator is and has always been a work in progress. We in our human forms just might be another stepping stone along the way.

Many ancients describe God (the creator) as a circle. Both the beginning and the end. Could it just be we exist presently in between where awareness both existed before and where it now exists? Thus intelligence possibly only finding it's temporal existence in between.

Which Brings Us To The Subject Of Awareness Itself
Awareness isn't bound to intelligence. Rather intelligence's dependence on it. This brings us to the need to refocus our attention to the next higher level of God/the creator and that which is he/she/its awareness. What could possibly exist beyond this awareness? Non awareness (completion)?

Science teaches us what is put in motion tends to stay in motion. Could it just be whatever triggered this event has completed it's cycle? The rest of us are just remnants forever circling around what once been? If so-- it still doesn't answer any our questions does it? How did this all begin in the first place?