You have a point.
I suspect that the AI would claim differently.
Ugh, the Reapers really do need to show up.
In the very very long-term view, it would have to end with some sort of single authority whether that's a single collective consciousness or a single authoritarian Queen-type leader. AI is a computer program underneath, and computer programs are written to solve problems. Evolution is organic slow motion solving of nature's problems. And humans tend to eventually go down the path of least resistance even sometimes at the long-term cost of all humans (pollution for example).
So over a very long period of time, as humans merge with AI I could see eventually that transition leading to an AI controlled or influenced majority. And since in the very long run an electronic AI that could survive hundreds or thousands of years without the limitations of human bodies and probably have faster processing and vastly more information storage, at some point why keep the humans around? The time needed for interstellar travel that others mentioned in the thread might lead evolution that way too.
All that said, I think the time of this becoming even a remote concern is many hundreds of years away. There are at least a good 7 or 8 things that are more likely to knock out human life before then. Global epidemic outbreak, asteroid, Yosemite, WW3, terrorism, etc. We've got some hurdles to jump before master AI overlords makes it's way up the list.
I'm fairly sure that he's taken the idea from Watchmen... popular theory that blew up a while ago is that Dr. Mahnattan's superpower is actually mind-body dualism/distinction. Essentially an in-universe affirmation that the mind lies elsewhere and simply controls the body remotely. Most people are unaware of what they really are, but Dr. Manhattan is special because he is aware of what he is and is thus able to control the universe (incl. destroying other people's physical manifestations).
I believe the antenna example is even explicitly used in the Watchmen comics.
Sylvanas didn't even win the popular vote, she was elected by an indirect election of representatives. #NotMyWarchief
I believe I read an article once, that scientists were very close to the technology, that would allow computer chips to be implanted in the brain, however, the brain is still too complicated to properly do it yet. They said it would be possible to create collective consciousness this way, making it possible to share thoughts, ideas, dreams and everything you've seen in sci-fi movies.
Access to the same information wouldn't access the same consciousness. Everyone will still be able to formulate their own opinions about things. It would only form a collective consciousness if the 'implant' could control aspects of your mind.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Black Holes,... gravity in general is just too many complications. Meteors, gravitational waves, electromagnetic storms from superheated plasma...Why bother with it, when the void can offer that haven even more, relatively uneventfully for billions of years. Black Holes might be used to gather energy, especially their momentum , basically draining the black hole of its kinetic energy, but not inhabit it as sentients.
If they have reached their singularity in some form, their sentient minds can inhabit and exist in any form within their void colonies, and most likely beyond. They most likely have billions of virtual worlds as well.
That is why the Fermi Paradox does not work. We are assuming that higher forms of life would choose to live in gravitational prisons like Earth and around stars/galaxies. If you want your civilization to survive for billion of years you would choose areas that are mostly uneventfull, like spaces between galaxies, or within Void Clusters.
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
In case you didn't notice our culture and religion are examples of collected consciousness. Helping and guiding you, whether you like it or not, to learn and to make something of yourself. Like a nest you ascend from to take flight on your own, to expand through your own being everything life has to offer, in the end for the benefit of you + those who'll follow and come after you, just like the people did that lived before yourself.
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If you knew the candle was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
Ugh. This post is reminding me of the crappy green ending of Mass Effect 3.