/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1957217
This process has been working for a long time here on earth, bringing us to today.

It isn't hard to spot the winner of this replication contest. The one living thing that is winning the competition for resources in untold numbers.

It isn't humans. The winner in this competition of repetition is that of the idea.

We've seen it on 4chan, and across youtube. Ideas, countless in number, are continuously replicated competing for the resources of billions of human minds. Trillions of dollars in electronics equipment.

Ideas are all working towards one goal. Reproduce more ideas. Like a symbiotic relationship ideas and humans are linked to one another...for now.

A time will come however, when abstract ideas will be able to create more abstract ideas, without the need for all the resources used up in the living human body. They will create more ideas faster than their antiquated human hosts ever could.

This drive to replicate will consume all the resources available. Naturally, as we know, there are more resources available. Out in the universe. In space there are even more untold resources. Fuel for the creation of life!

Are we the first, the only world with life? I certainly hope so. For if we aren't, surely you can know what may be out there, every moment, growing faster, more efficient.

Life is coming. Is there anything you can do to stop it?

>>1906795
No, there is no such thing as "pure" energy. Energy is an abstract concept for gaining a better understanding of the physical world, and how objects interact within it.

>>1902208
I would say that to a certain extent the potential for Intelligence is inherited. There may be certain physical differences that make for quicker synaptic reactions, or that allow for a longer retention of information which facilitates an easier time understanding concepts. Chemical difference could impact the ability of someone to BECOME intelligent, but not the intelligence itself.

To say that actual intelligence is inherited though, I would think not. It could be seen as having a high correlation due to parents being the model for a child's thinking processes.