Abstract of discussion:
"How and Why is Life Trying to get into Digital Space?"

Cyberspace is now evolving beyond being merely an "interface" (something you just point and click on) to becoming a true "place" (which you enter and inhabit). Hundreds of thousands of people now enter increasingly complex 3D cyber-cityscapes, communicating through digital bodies called "avatars" (visit http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/). As the human colonization of cyberspace begins, one might ask, will life follow us into digital space, and why? Human civilization is in fact a collective of coevolving (and extincting) biota and there is no reason to doubt that analogous forms of this biota will find their way into a sufficiently rich cybersoup pot. Digital Biota, freed of the constraints of atomic body mass, will evolve much more rapidly and travel at lightspeed through networks or even beyond out into the solar system. The digital form of life could well become the chrysalis phase of new matter biota spun into atoms through
molecular nanofabrication. And why would life do this? The destruction of the Earth and all that dwell at the bottom of its gravity well is assured once the sun enters old age as a red giant. The best route out of the
hatchery is on wings of light.

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