Sure but the big question is why bother. If you have the computational power to make “lifelike” reality then you can create your own universe and just explore that. You won’t know if it’s any less real than our own since we don’t even know what secrets our universe holds.
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That's a fair point. Personally, I don't see how that would be sustainable in the long term, though. We would just keep exhausting our planets natural resources, at that point, if we chose to stay within our own digital "lifelike" realities instead of searching outward for other needed resources or means of survival. I get your point, but I feel as if humanity will eventually transition over into a purely mechanical form. Perhaps you are correct about humans maybe not being meant to travel out into space. If we were to eventually fully transition, like I mentioned, we wouldn't need to exhaust our planets resources. A sentient robot would not need water or oxygen or food to survive. But, like I said, I get your point.
At that point we’d have enough intelligence to make it trivial to blast ourselves into a passing asteroid and replicate / spread from there to other distant objects.
But does that are it true or good though without honoring the time maker when going fake and corrupt time?
Just like how taking music for granted doesn’t trump.
“I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
Thieving is easy, ain’t it?
Just have them faked trained artificials to do it, but that doesn’t overcome the causalities of the corrupt know-how, does it?!
Yea, I see your point. Sorry, I was just looking at your initial post and I forgot that you mentioned humans becoming digitized. I was thinking you were referring to humans exploring "lifelike" digital worlds without any digitization. Yea, you're right. There wouldn't be a point in leaving Earth.
But just because we become digitized and have the capability to build and explore our own worlds doesn't mean we'll lose interest in exploring our universe. In fact it could make us more excited about space exploration. Think about it, if we become fully digitized, space exploration would become much easier on a practical level. Lol. Again who knows? 🤷♂️