With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. - Robert J. Sawyer
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.
- Robert J. Sawyer
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? .… - Robert J. Sawyer
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? .…
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. - Robert J. Sawyer
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. - Robert J. Sawyer
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. - Robert J. Sawyer
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? - Robert J. Sawyer
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. - Robert J. Sawyer
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. - Robert J. Sawyer
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied c… - Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied c…
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