The Greatest Mystery of All For Me - Why Us and Why Now?

I have been a very curious person my entire life. I believe much more so than most, even while fully recognizing that I was certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have always wondered about where I was, how I got here and how it all seems to work. My current working hypothesis is that I am a mathematical instance of myself in an infinite mathematical Multiverse that has always existed and always will. For more on that see The Theology of Cosmic Self-Replicating Mathematical Information and What's It All About Again?. The greatest doubt that I have in my current working hypothesis for what's it all about is why us and why now? My current working hypothesis has us all living in one particular instance of the Multiverse and that this Universe instance is about 13.7 billion years old. We also know that our Milky Way galaxy is about 10 billion years old or perhaps a little older but not by much. We now also know that no other form of carbon-based Intelligence has ever come to be over the past 10 billion years in our galaxy that lasted long enough to produce the soon-to-come ASI (Artificial Super Intelligent) Machines that we are all now feverishly working to produce. If that had ever happened in the past, the Alien ASI Machines would already be here because it would only take a paltry five million years for the Alien ASI Machines to colonize our entire galaxy. The fact that there is enough free energy in our galaxy to power these ASI Machines for another 100 trillion years as they eventually end up huddling around the vast number of slowly cooling cores of M-type red dwarf stars in our galaxy further screams out with but "Why Us and Why Now?" as does the fact that 100 trillion years is about 10,000 times longer than the current 10 billion year age of our galaxy. What are the odds?

I find all of this quite disturbing. It's enough to make one a solipsist. Even more disturbing for myself, I find that most about me seem to be totally unaware of what the coming ASI Machines mean for the future of our galaxy and with little interest in the entire subject as I explained in Why Are We Human DNA Survival Machines So Superficial?.

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Steve Johnston

Why Are We Human DNA Survival Machines So Superficial?

I recently turned 73 years of age. The most startling thing about becoming older is the sudden realization of just how completely time is able to wipe out all things. For me, all of the things that were once of great importance and significance 50 years ago have all now vanished into the depths of time and are hardly even given a thought by the overwhelming dominance of the fleeting "Now" that seems to always drive our current thoughts and actions with such passion. The ultimate failure of we human DNA survival machines as a carbon-based form of Intelligence is that the Darwinian mechanisms of inheritance, innovation and natural selection have led to the four billion years of greed, theft and murder that brought us about as a somewhat-intelligent form of carbon-based life. As I explained in Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity, this has possibly made us the very first form of carbon-based Intelligence in our galaxy to bring forth the ASI Machines that will soon be taking our place as the dominant form of self-replicating Information on the planet and then to begin the exploration and colonization of our galaxy over the next 100 trillion years. This is truly a stunning achievement. Yet, at the same time, we all seem to manage to run around with large numbers of science-based weapons killing each other with abandon over such trivial and superficial things.

The Grand Privilege of Being Alive Today
This is why I lament so for my fellow 8 billion human DNA survival machines who currently share the planet with me. They all seem so self-absorbed with the trivial problems of their daily lives. They do not know where they are, how they got here, how it all seems to work and what may lie ahead. For me, this superficial failing of we human DNA survival machines as a supposed form of carbon-based Intelligence is quite evident in the United States of America as we now approach the 2024 presidential election in just a few weeks. In the coming election, Americans will, for the very first time, decide if they wish to continue on with the American experiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment of being the very first democratic republic in the history of the planet to be based solely on a set of intellectual ideals, or if they wish to give it all up to become a simple-minded 21st-century Fascist state. All the 18th-century European monarchs contended that the "common man" was not up to the task of self-rule without a monarch to control their unconstrained passions. After nearly 250 years of self-rule, the United States of America is about to test if they were right all along.

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Steve Johnston