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     So last week I promised to talk about something called Transcendance. Yup, don't know why I did that, forced myself to write about something in particular. Here we go.
     So last week I talked about the Fermi Paradox, where is everybody and all that. Check it out if you want to, just scroll down further. You'll love it, I promise. So where there is a problem in science there are also hypothesis, possible solutions. With a question like the Fermi Paradox, you have to account for why we don't see any big glowing signs. Some people like the idea that civilizations simply stop talking so loudly when they get smart, others think they close themselves off in giant bubbles called Dyson Spheres. One of the most interesting ideas is something a little more odd.

     What would be the ultimate freedom in a Universe like ours? Without getting all wishy-washy and philosophical its a pretty easy question; not being a "thing". How do you not be a thing? Well, a thing is something in this universe, something solid and with weight. If I ask: "which is a thing, a gluon or an elephant?" The answer seems obvious, a gluon is a tiny tiny tiny little thing, practically nothing at all, and elephant is big and solid. Humans are things, we have a mass, a size, a density, a specific energy output, ect...
      But if you lose your "thingyness", then you lose all the things that being a thing means. No more mass means you can zip around the universe at the speed of light without relativistic effects, and not having a solid body means you could go for a dip in a star if you felt like it. Sounds like science fiction right? Well it is.
     Basically transcendce is an idea, nobodies sure how to do it, but we have inklings, and we know what the end result should be. Its like knowing what type of cake you want to make but not knowing what you need to bake it. Transferring a human consciousness into an stable energetic matrix isn't exactly baking a cake, but you get the idea.
     Why bother with it? Well a lot of reasons. It's basically immortality, and the number one reason as always is just because its worth a shot. Thats how science works, if you can do it, awesome, congratulations  if not, you probably still learned plenty along the way.