new year

so the new year is upon us and the attendant celebrations insofar as we have been able to pass another year on this planet without completely destroying it. in the eye of the deist; the world is a forgone conclusion, and as such a passing matter complete with design and a higher agency. For nought our mission is ongoing and that there is a PURPOSE in our being. There is no need for apology either. The explorations of our micro and macrocosms continues unabated; funded of course by our incessant need for entertainment to alleviate the 'burden of sentience TM'.

if we embark on a purposeful risk assessment; it is here that our greatest challenge lies. Not in the mapping of our consciousness or it's explanation (lol), but in the necessity to acquire further high potential resources. To assume that we have reached the end point on our explanation of consciousness is sheer arrogance. mapping our consciousness is not a risk factor, resource acquisition is. as metals become fixed in unusable salts or oxide compounds, the risk is increasingly ever presented as the shortage of high potential materials. this does not bode well for our species as our current technology is so dependant on these said materials.

organic carbon and silicon based technologies may hold the key. by its virtue of sheer plenitude; both materials may provide an inexhaustible resource or at the least a cyclic resource which could be powered by the energy that falls on the planet daily. the drawback in this scenario is the fixing of carbon in polymer chains which are covalently very strong and not easily rendered back to base ingredients. the other challenge is the fixing of materials in volatile organic compounds which prove difficult to handle on a planet wide scale by their very nature.

the nature of our ability to recognise an endless self referencing loop and our ability to terminate the loop is critical to understanding how technologies of the future must be developed. the good news is the terminator is in the works. how we apply this is the hope.

happy new year