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Material Abundance
Where the machine learns to build the machine, and minds are finally given bodies ᎱᏬᎢᏬᎡᎬᏟᎡᎪᎱᎢᏆᏁᏀ ᎬᎪᎡᎢᎻ: ᎠᎾᎾᎡ 4 From energy to matter Door 3 taught us to command the fire. Door 4 is where we forge with it. If stellar abundance is the energy, material abundance is the form that energy is shaped into — the finished stuff of a civilization: its tools, its shelter, its vehicles, and, before long, its bodies. Once more the whole of it reduces to that single, stubborn act the master builder named before anyone else: autonomously moving atoms — this time not as...