That’s right. If light speed travel is not possible at this stage, then perhaps artificial intelligence could encode itself as light. (Mind you, there was just a report that a European particle accelerator has achieved faster than light velocity...if that is confirmed it’s ‘goodbye, Einstein’ .)
full flow on a sort of micro level – if you view individual human consciousness as an cell in a wider organism that is forever reproducing and re-encoding. The question then becomes linking up that cellular structure and taking it macro. Whether it’s all self organising complex systems or an overarching intelligence.
My friend Greg Sams has written a rather marvellous book called Sun of God which The ETI concept...Evolutionary transitions in postulates amongst many other interesting Individuality...how individuals come together ideas that the sun is actually a super-conscious being. But if you zoom right out of the idea, of us creating AIs which then colonise planets it opens up the possibility that this has happened already and that we are the vectors in that cycle of intelligence reproducing itself. God Increases. As you say – there are as many definitions or manifestations of consciousness as there are conscious beings – so that cycle is already in Images - Autopoesis - created with Granul8