Michael S. Lorrey has written,
> Eventually we all become rock, at some point after death. ;)
>
> David Brin utilized the concious rock idea a couple times in his two uplift
> trilogies. One being a race of deep burrowers on the planet Kithrup, and
another
> being psychic lava related to the 'Buyur'. I imagine that translating our
> uploaded mentalities to survive in a lava environment may be one direction for
> humans to take in or after the singularity.
Then again, if the singularity uses the atoms in rocks to increase its memory
banks, eventually we all may become part of the singularity.
--J. R.
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of
virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
--Thomas Jefferson
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