All discrete objects in universe are either modules, or they are modular systems.
Elementary modules exist that are not configured from other modules.
All modules are embedded in a continuum that acts as the living space of these modules.
Reality’s most influential law can be formulated as a commandment:
“THOU SHALT CONSTRUCT IN A MODULAR WAY”
Modular construction acts very economic with its resources and the law thus includes an important lesson. "DO NOT SPOIL RESOURCES!"
The modular design method becomes very powerful when modules can be constructed from lower level modules. The standardization of modules enables reuse and may generate type communities. The success of a type community may depend on other type communities.
Modular systems and modular subsystems are conglomerates of connected modules. The constituting modules are bonded. Often the modules are coupled via interfaces that channel the information paths that are used by the relations. Modular subsystems can act as modules and often they can also act as independent modular systems.
The hiding of internal relations inside a module eases the configuration of modular (sub)systems. In complicated systems, modular system generation can be several orders of magnitude more efficient than the generation of equivalent monoliths. This means that stochastic modular system generation gets a winning chance against monolithic system construction.
The generation of modules and the configuration of modular (sub)systems can be performed in a stochastic or in an intelligent way. Stochastic (sub)system generation takes more resources and requires more trials than intelligent (sub)system generation. An inexperienced modular designer must first learn to discern which relations are relevant and which relations can be neglected. Predesigned interfaces that combine provide relations and require relations can save much resources.
If all discrete objects are either modules or modular systems, then intelligent (sub)system generation must wait for the arrival of intelligent modular systems.
Intelligent species can take care of the success of their own type. This includes the care about the welfare of the types on which its type depends. Thus, for intelligent modular systems, modularization also includes the lesson “TAKE CARE OF THE TYPES ON WHICH YOU DEPEND”.
An equivalent important lesson is: “TAKE CARE OF YOUR LIVING ENVIRONMENT”.
If you don’t take care of your environment or spoil your resources, then many species and especially the species that depend strongly on their environment will endanger to perish and become quickly extinct. Do you want your dependents or your species to inherit such future?
DO YOU VOTE FOR A QUICK EXTINCTION OF OUR SPECIES?
If you do, then you sin against the lessons of the most influential physical law.
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The EXTINCTION OF OUR SPECIES will certainly lead to the extinction of humans, because humans are heavily dependent on the environment.
we are spending much more than we need, for example 70 billion pounds of food waste in America each year, this is enough to feed all the hungry people on earth....
I vote for the extinction, of course.
At close to modern state we will be a limited time. In addition, potentially (more correctly say, inevitably) at some moment our adaptive landscape may (strike out previous word) be subjected to such fast dynamic changes from outside, that at the current state of the evolution our civilization as the system will not be able to compensate. Then we will quickly lose stability and will be dissipated. Stability is the most funny word for evolution and eternity.
But this does not mean that in other localized areas of reality can not be very similar structures (in past, present or future), because we are the product of deterministic invariant laws of self-organization.
For me is not difficult to explain this, realize and take destiny.
Vasily,
I can agree with part of your vision. Our species are destined to become extinct, but there are two ways to get extinct. One is to die and perish. Another way is to evolve further into a more successful species. And indeed intelligent species will also occur at other locations. Intelligent species can speed-up evolution and turn stochastic design into intelligent design. In that way they can control evolution and guide it into a different direction.
Maybe the human species have still a few generations left before earth is becoming unlivable for billions of human specimen. Live has more often recovered from big disasters. Probably intelligent live has an even better chance to survive such extinctive processes.
Improving that chance requires joining forces and planning measures to prevent complete extinction.
Universe has billions of years ahead.
Consider the path forward (the non-perish option). We are faced with either remaining on our little planet until some major catastrophe occurs or expanding beyond it.
Staying involves living on this planet or possibly expanding just through out our solar system. We know there is a lifespan to our sun, so this direction still does have a reasonably known time limit. We can extend our wasteful social, political, and technologic systems only while we expand into the solar system. And it is unlikely we can extend the current level of wastefulness for much longer. Individual humans can remain the primary unit - and we could conceivably remain a species for the duration.
If we consider expansion, then keep the current physical evidence that the speed of light is a maximum speed and that the power requirements to get anything of our scale even close to 96% of the speed of light are prohibitive.
Expanding requires long trips, measured in lifetimes, with very fixed resources. None of our current social, political, technologic, or religious systems can handle this. Such a move toward expansion likely will require a vessel capable of carrying a small society and moving at significantly less than light speed. Travel times are in the 100s to thousands of years. With very fixed resources, it will require high rates of recycling and requirements for population control of humans. The emphasis will be on the entire society and not on the cult of the individual.
While the scientific and technological hurdles to expansion are high, the social and political ones might be more than humans can accept. Certainly humans, as we know ourselves, could not last through such an extended trip of limited resources. So we likely cannot remain 'human' (as we currently know ourselves) simply to go in this direction. Maybe we will require some combination of 'man-machine' to extend our lifetimes - but not likely to thousands of years. Or maybe what we call an individual changes and becomes more like a hive.
A very different culture - social, political, religious, and more - is required to 'travel the stars'. This is not what the Star Wars generation is looking for.
A possible analogy is to look at the 'culture' in an individual cell. A self-contained environment capable of living and regenerating itself (very modular). This might be analogous to the vessel crossing space. If such a vessel is a single cell, getting to 'multi-cellular' beings might be a billion years in the future (assuming our concept of time remains similar to what we think today).
Intelligent machines can survive a main disaster. I guess that they will be the follow up after humans perish.
Intelligent human-machines might survive better.
We have consistently way under estimated what it takes to make a machine, on its own, intelligent. In particular, it takes human intelligence to make a machine intelligent. Considering how well we are doing repairing humans horribly injured in war, connecting human and machine will likely occur before intelligent machines.
This may be where humans need to evolve to, even as we spend huge sums to consider how machines and machine-enhanced humans can kill other humans.
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