The Huge Entity: Exponentially Self-Realising Reflexive-Consciousness Machine

Exponentially Self-Realising Reflexive-Consciousness Machine

Thursday, November 03, 2005 → by Danieru

Current estimated human population on Earth: 6.52 billion people

Taking a rough guess that around 50% of the world's population is asleep or unconscious at any one moment this means that:

Since you started reading this post roughly 2067 human years have been consciously perceived on Earth (half the world perceiving 20 seconds of time each).
In the last decade of your life 32 billion human years have been consciously perceived on Earth (10 years perceived constantly by at least half the world's population at a time).

Current estimated age of the Universe: 13.7 billion years

This means that in about 4.2 revolutions of the Earth around the Sun the ENTIRE age of the Universe has been consciously lived out by the humans on its surface.

The Universe as an exponentially self-realising reflexive-consciousness machine? Could be. And let's not begin to ponder about the other forms of consciousness on Earth or elsewhere. Dreamers, animals, Artificial Intelligence systems, memory, flash-back, deja-vu, aliens......

For more mind-blowing scales on reality check out the Interactive Secret-Worlds animation here.... and for more statistics of statistics of numbers of things and events check out the World o' Meters page here....

Categories: Human, Earth, Reality, Science, Time, Consciousness, Perception, Nonsense, WTF?

posted by Danieru at 1:22 PM

Anonymous said...

That leading, burning, edge of the collective conciousness cannot be preserved (what if it could?); the only geologic record of sorts is the echos of the ages, distant memories. Still, that leading edge of collective awareness alone, is enough to drive home the scope of human endevours, and the scale of life's activities.

November 04, 2005 5:23 AM