James Arbib RSS
Stellar Abundance
Where we stop rationing energy and begin turning starlight directly into Starminds ᎱᏬᎢᏬᎡᎬᏟᎡᎪᎱᎢᏆᏁᏀ ᎬᎪᎡᎢᎻ: ᎠᎾᎾᎡ 3 From bits to atoms In Door 2 we rebuilt the mind. But a mind, however luminous, is abstracted from the physical world — it thinks, it models, it dreams, and none of that yet moves a single gram of matter. Door 3 and Door 4 are where we cross the border into the material universe and put a dent in it with intelligent, robotic fingers. And the whole of abundance, once you strip away the politics and the poetry, reduces to a...