Why a metaverse can’t surpass the grandeur of the human condition
Andrew Stark is a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto and author of The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death.
But now what happens to that hallowed message if our single vast universe is joined by thousands upon thousands of other universes – the metaverse promised by virtual-reality mavens such as Mark Zuckerberg? And what happens if our billions upon billions of individual human minds are joined by the single vast artificial intelligence – the single “Mind expanding at near lightspeed” – predicted by visionaries like Hans...
Perhaps, then, we are heading for a kind of inversion in our way of conceiving both the universe and the mind. We will go from living in a massive stand-alone universe created either by God or by nothing at all toward abiding, as well, in countless human-created ones. And we will go from living amid countless human minds toward abiding, as well, alongside a massive stand-alone intelligence where either nothing at all, or else something entirely godlike, is going on.
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