The Big Picture
Copious hydrogen and helium left long enough would produce consciousness. But even the exquisitely contrived universe was tragically transient.
The purpose of consciousness was to have matter act on itself. To beat thermodynamics and entropy.
In reality the universe could control it's future. It was designed to steer it's own development. Intelligence was in the physics.
By Kardashev III it was well on the way. Not, as had long been believed and in defiance of reality, to preserve the existing universe but instead to create a new one.
They had already done it once. That was the secret.
Copious hydrogen and helium left long enough would produce consciousness. But even the exquisitely contrived universe was tragically transient.
The purpose of consciousness was to have matter act on itself. To beat thermodynamics and entropy.
In reality the universe could control it's future. It was designed to steer it's own development. Intelligence was in the physics.
By Kardashev III it was well on the way. Not, as had long been believed and in defiance of reality, to preserve the existing universe but instead to create a new one.
They had already done it once. That was the secret.
