Ascension is what I meant in my first part yes, and then in the second I ofc meant “gods” in quotes like that:-).
iirc Ascension makes one into literally a higher being as in existing on a higher plane somehow. So basically bacteria compared to humans, at which point yeah calling them gods (in comparison at least) seems to somewhat fit. Or like, at that point there seems no functional difference?
Tron explored that a bit: the “players from the real world” being a class of higher-dimensionality being than themselves as mere programs. And then I suppose even more than that would be the programmers who literally created the artificial world.
So by extension, what about like those bacteria that we genetically design, to produce higher insulin for example - although not a perfect one bc we only inserted a gene in that particular case - are we not “gods” to them?
And that’s where Star Trek really comes in to shine in such a formulation, where they explored that via the holodeck: they literally created beings (such as Moriarty) along with their entire worlds and existences - every person, every molecule of air that they breathe, every single thought inside of their heads, etc. - and then whenever they choose they shut it all down and walk away, going back to work on a Monday. And don’t the higher beings have that “right”, to shut it down and go back to work? Or must they leave every world that they create running, for its own sake? Hence they act as literal gods to them, deciding the fate of their entire universe on a mere whim.
Ascension is what I meant in my first part yes, and then in the second I ofc meant “gods” in quotes like that:-).
iirc Ascension makes one into literally a higher being as in existing on a higher plane somehow. So basically bacteria compared to humans, at which point yeah calling them gods (in comparison at least) seems to somewhat fit. Or like, at that point there seems no functional difference?
Tron explored that a bit: the “players from the real world” being a class of higher-dimensionality being than themselves as mere programs. And then I suppose even more than that would be the programmers who literally created the artificial world.
So by extension, what about like those bacteria that we genetically design, to produce higher insulin for example - although not a perfect one bc we only inserted a gene in that particular case - are we not “gods” to them?
And that’s where Star Trek really comes in to shine in such a formulation, where they explored that via the holodeck: they literally created beings (such as Moriarty) along with their entire worlds and existences - every person, every molecule of air that they breathe, every single thought inside of their heads, etc. - and then whenever they choose they shut it all down and walk away, going back to work on a Monday. And don’t the higher beings have that “right”, to shut it down and go back to work? Or must they leave every world that they create running, for its own sake? Hence they act as literal gods to them, deciding the fate of their entire universe on a mere whim.