Vladimir Oane's Key Ideas from Diaspora
by Greg Egan
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Story of Diaspora (novel)
Humannity is divided into 3 groups: flashers, androids and digital human. All doing their thing and barely interacting. However, a neutron star collapses killing all flashers in an event that contradicts the current understanding of the cosmos. The event creates a panic among the other 2 human species, fearing a similar event can wipe them out too. The Diaspora consists of a collection of one thousand clones, deployed toward stars in all directions in the hope of gathering as much data as possible in order to understand the event.
The adventrure keeps rotating back & forth between different cloned instances of main characters, exploring alternate timelines and paralel universes.
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The evolution"humans"
By 2975 humanity has "speciated" into three distinct groupings:
- Fleshers: The traditional flesh&blood humans, some in their original form others taking advantage of enhancements.
- Gleisner robots: individual software-based intelligences living in flesher-like bodies. They are mostly space explorers.
- Citizens: simulated consciuousness individuals living in simulated digital worlds.
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Purpose for Immortals
After becoming an immortal digital being, Gabriel decides to spend millenia creating wormhole travel:
"Without a purpose that spanned centuries he could only drift between interests & aesthetics, friends & lovers, triumphs & disappointments. He could only live a life or two until there is no difference between his continued existence and his replacement by someone new."
The book, alongide other's Egan related ones, touches on the quest for meaning in beings that can live forever.
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The myth of the conquering aliens
Early on humans had fantasies about aliens arriving to conquer Earth and stealing their resources, never considering that a specie capable of making the journey would have probably get rid of the obsolete biological constraints.
Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do - knowing no better, having no choice.
When we get to explore space, our condition would be the opposite of that, we will have no end of choices. We would look to find civilizations who have faced the same decisions & discovered what it means to inhabit the universe.
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