Contemplating Oblivion - Hardcover

Wiley, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798991013512

Verlag: Alautun Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A million-year-old neural configuration designer discovers a conscious state that reveals a solution to the End-Of-Universe-Survival-Problem, becoming an instant and reluctant galactic messiah, but some see it as the path to oblivion, and will stop at nothing to prevent her from completing her work.

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A million years in the future, physics is closed. Humanity has computerized the brain, solved death, and spread across the galaxy. The greatest challenge that remains is figuring out how a quadrillion immortal, nearly omnipotent humans might survive the eventual end of the universe.

Lysandra is a million-year-old quale-diver, a person who designs novel neural configurations in search of new conscious experiences—qualia. When she discovers a conscious state that hints at a solution to the universe-survival problem, the entire galaxy erupts with renewed excitement and hope. The final question to end all questions might be on the brink of a solution. But there are those who believe that surviving the end of the universe will destabilize the timeless cycle of infinite universes, leading to eternal oblivion, and they will stop at nothing to prevent Lysandra from completing her work.

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Keith Wiley was one of the original members of MURG, the Mind Uploading Research Group, an online community dating to the mid-90s that discussed issues of consciousness with an aim toward mind uploading. He has written a previous book about the philosophical interpretation of mind uploading, various invited book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and magazine articles, in addition to several essays on a broad array of topics, available on his website at https://keithwiley.com. When away from the keyboard, he can be found hiking the mountains and rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. He currently resides in Seattle, WA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alautun Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798991013512
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338
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