Today's muse, it will seem so obvious, when we look back on today, 1,000 years from now. The distinction between technology and biology will be non-existent, in fact the vary concept of a distinction will seem antiquated, and quaint, almost like what with think of 200 year old medical practices, from today's perspective. The distinction of importance, will be consciousness, what it is, what has it, and what doesn't.
The exploration of space, and the exploration of consciousness, may have merged to become one and the same set of activities, substituting the word consciousness for space, in JFK's landmark May 25, 1961 speech, the May 25, 2961 speech becomes:
Alright world, let's all think together on three... one, two, three... blast off!
The exploration of space, and the exploration of consciousness, may have merged to become one and the same set of activities, substituting the word consciousness for space, in JFK's landmark May 25, 1961 speech, the May 25, 2961 speech becomes:
"No single [consciousness] project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of [consciousness]; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish,"This project of course, will use our advanced bioconology (madeup term, bio- con- ology) tools, to create, or maybe access (if it already exists), a consciousness energy that is separate from human biology. But the project will not look like the technology obsessed moon shot that we are so familiar with, and that Carl Sagan used, I suspect, as his physical model for Contact; it will look more like a biological version of a solar concentration field, substituting of course consciousness for the sun.
Alright world, let's all think together on three... one, two, three... blast off!
