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Originally Posted by Argos
The great assumption is that advanced civilizations will remain in material form. It could be that very advanced minds necessarily migrate to some kind of virtual environment and continue the quest for the Final Truth [which seems to be what intelligent beings do] as tenous pulses of energy. The only material need would be the 'server' in a remote corner of a run-of-the-mill planet that would host the virtual mind-beings. They wouldnīt be noticed as a material presence in anywhere else. That would solve the Fermi paradox and do away with the 'Great Filter'. This concept has been already explored in many SF stories, and I donīt see any reason why it couldnīt be.
Edit: Bolstrom, as a 'transhumanist', should have thought about that, but the idea is absent from his essay.
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Material form for has many advantages, for example you don't kapoot when the power goes out. Besides to keep the machinery operating you would need an army of robots to mine the resources to keep things nifty. And such activity would leave traces, that we don't see. So uploaded mega-god type civilizations don't alleviate the paradox.
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