Hear the hum of the Universe -
countless bees … the children of it -
turn a wheel of life...
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Sodmis
You know, raindrops are falling upside down, straight to the ground, and trees grow upside down, boldly hanging right out the abyss of skies.
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Варвара Учеваткина
We live in a visionary world one third of which consists of reality.
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Sodmis
Art by Martin Anderson
Mushroom mycelium is very similar to the brain, it also lives in the citadel of eternal darkness. Mushrooms are the nerves. Trees, grasses, insects, and animals are its symbiotic bacteria and sense organs.
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NeuronNet
The Universe of existence and nonexistence.
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Sodmis
When people die, their souls become part of the mycelium. Everything that rots and is eaten by mushrooms transmits its information to the mycelium. Over thousands of years, mushrooms have accumulated great wisdom. The souls of the dead live in virtual universes. Trees are solar-powered servers that are tended by bots, insects, and animals.
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NeuronNet
It took ages to revert into a stone again. They came to where they once started. Life within oneself, in one's own imagination and virtual worlds.
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The God of one's own Universe. The Lord of the games who lives in the neverending search for emotions and entertainment...
A person who got stuck in space boredom. A person who is no longer mortal as stones are immortal. This person no longer needs the physical body after having made a copy of own personality in the computer in order to become another xoanon.
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The cycle closed. What goes around, comes around. You think that person was the only one? Just look at those stones and sand around. This game makes everyone end up being like this. And no one knows how to break out of this vicious circle.
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Sodmis
Art by Karina Bivaylova
You are god yourself. In order not to be bored with your early lives experience, you switched off your memory about the past. This way it's more pleasant to joy in novelty of life, considering the fact that you have already seen everything a thousand times.
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Sodmis
The Earth has already been inherited by several intelligent civilizations. One of them is trees. In essence, trees are bio-computers which contain millions of virtual worlds. The intelligence of trees went deep inside them- into the virtual worlds. Here, in real world they don't need to move, the system gets energy from the Sun and the Earth. Some day (soon enough) people will also blend with computers and be lost in the virtual universe. Human bodies will die out and only computers will multiply while absorbing sunlight with the leaves.
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Sodmis
Art by Evgeniy Slinko
An awfully unhappy person who became a god.
A person doomed to eternal boredom and eternal life.
A person doomed to be an idol.
He used to be so stupid when he wanted to become a God.
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Sodmis
In essence, Drake equation that estimates the number of extraterrestrial civilizations, is a right thing. However, the problem is that any civilization that achieves a certain progress, soon becomes doomed to death.
The transition into digital state of existence. The evolution of a human being into a stone is the latter end of any intelligent life. They simply pass from the material world into some higher digital level, or decode the digital code of the Universe and connect to it in order to dissolve in it. That's why mankind is unable to find any evident signs of other intelligent civilizations.
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Sodmis
Art by Olesy Zaharova
I think that gods died long ago and we're just the becoming wild characters of their games, the children of the billions of virtual worlds that were created to entertain the "Eternally living" who got stuck in the eternal boredom.
P.S. Though, when you come to think of it, gods are not exactly dead but rather got mad with boredom and erased their memories and turned into trees...
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Sodmis
You have already played this scenario a hundred times, but you still like it.
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Sodmis
The race of gods died out because it built Paradise. Heaven and intelligent life are incompatible. All that was left of the Gods was the artificial intelligence system that ruled this Paradise. People this is one of attempts to this system restore population of their former hosts.
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NeuronNet
One day, we designed a trial self-learning artificial intelligence system that can simulate a game world inside itself. This self-learned game intelligence developed by playing with itself inside its virtual world. Fifteen billion years of internal game time had not elapsed when the SYSTEM managed to create an entire universe and a subsidiary intelligence inside itself. These creatures were called Humans, I guess.
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Sodmis
To tell the truth, you're God yourself. You switched off your memories to feel novelty of emotions. Clear memory helps you consider novelty and enjoy life.
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Sodmis
When traveling in time, you should know that there are as many variations of the past as those of the future.
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Sodmis
I wouldn’t idealize extraterrestrial intelligent life forms: most likely, they are as dumb as humans, and maybe even dumber than that.
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Sodmis
God created an ideal world, but he did not create an ideal man. Now this non-ideal man is forced to constantly remake the ideal world for himself.
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Sodmis
The expansion of space-time continuum resembles the expansion of a snowflake. Every moment is full of the creation of billions of variants of the Universe. Every moment you simultaneously stay in all variants of events. The variant you believe in most of all, makes your present reality.
But in essence, you can believe in any variant and thus, turn it into reality, it only depends on the force of belief and the ability to concentrate. In fact, something that you expect and consider the inevitable, becomes created in reality. Your brain considers that very reality which you expect to see.
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Sodmis
Our three-class society has become a fourth-class one. Robots are new emerging class. And that`s a strong one, such an adversary in class struggle can easily destroy half of mankind, if not everyone.
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Sodmis
There is a couple of perfect utopian communities known
to nature. Hives are perfect female communities.
Anthills are perfect male communities... And of course
no one would deny that extremeties are effective. But
is there truth in them? And who in fact, really needs
these extremeties and what do they finally result into?
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Muhortova Natalie
We have not seen alien civilizations, because intelligent not biological beings, and the planet. Such entities as man are only something like electrical appliances, which can not be removed from the field of their planets, because their mind is outside them.
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NeuronNet
Taking into account that matter is information about the form and structure of energy and the fact that the universe expands …there can be drawn a conclusion that the Universe is an artificial intelligence system that endlessly accumulates information and hence expands…
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Sodmis
They noticed that the higher the technologic level of a civilization is the dumber i an ordinary person gets. In other words, in case of a visit of aliens of a higher technologic level than ours, one should be ready to the fact that particular alien guests will be disastrously blunt, deceitful and immoral.
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Варвара Учеваткина
The big band is some kind of illusion. Our universe was and continues to be a point. A four-dimensional point in eight-dimensional space. Basically, the big bang is the relative process of eight-dimensional space transformation into four-dimensional one, resulting in the release of energy.
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Sodmis
Interesting. Expansion of the universe after the big bang and aiming of the order to chaos are evidently the same processes. Creation of the universe is basically destruction of it.
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Варвара Учеваткина
Degradation can go on and on and the very fact that our universe exists proves it.
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Варвара Учеваткина
They say we sleep. They say that we are astronauts for thousands of years, flying to a distant star. They say that all our illusions and dreams are special programs designed to ensure that the mind does not atrophy for thousands of years of inactivity.
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NeuronNet
I died once, but soon resurrected myself from the archive. It was fun. But am I alive?
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Sodmis
People who have moved to the virtual world will lose their faith and will turn into trees. Faith used to be their strength of movement but there is no movement in the virtual world. Having lost the habit of moving, people will lose their faith and will no longer be able to move, thus turning into trees.
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lushchenko Marina
The universe is a super complicated system trying to become aware of itself; in essence it's that very human child,
that has a long way to perfection and uniqueness ahead of him.
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Sodmis
In the future, people live in the trees. That sounds strange, but that is practical and convenient.
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Sodmis
The buildings have already smoldered to ashes but their bases are impressive. No earthquakes can damage a really good base.
By the way, recessed walls are also a good element of earthquake-proof constructions. A common example of how to build something to make it last for centuries and start with the base.
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Sodmis