7B Fate

If the purpose of the urban organism is to spread life off of our planet, what does that mean for us? The idea of human beings colonising other worlds is popular because it embodies the dream that we will survive even if Earth becomes inhospitable. This is one possibility for human beings, however it should be noted that human beings exist on our planet as a result of 4.5 billion years of history. There is a complex foundation that supports our existence on Earth. To move a high level organism without a similar foundation would require extensive support from Earth. This is much like western colonies in the New World. North American and Australian colonies required extensive support from Europe. Much like a human individual, while many of us will work to extend our health and live long prosperous lives, eventually we will succumb to time. So too is the fate of our civilization. Perhaps, the hope embodied in our extraterrestrial dreams will manifest in a much longer term process. While I believe the dream of perpetuating human life can be achieved with the seed of life, it will not necessarily occur in the manner we normally imagine. In other words we will not be there to see it, and the future humanoids will not have any memory of their origins. It is my belief that while the details of our existence, who we are, what we did, etc may be lost, the shapes, the desires, the dreams of humanoid beings will live on.