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I see three 'phases' leading up to the 'universal rebirth'. 1. Humanity is united under 'Technocracy'. Government is controlled by congress of scientists, engineers, and other experts. Humans have harnessed all the power of the sun, the Earth, the biosystem, and their own economies. Nano-sized robot 'colonies' assemble everything atom by atom. Robots design next generation of robots. Technology advances so fast that the race cannot keep track of it. Money does not exist anymore because there's no need for it. Economy is so advanced that scarcity does not exist anymore, and only limits are ability to consume, time, and space. 2. Technological advances create 'Borgism': society with hive mind... sort of like Star Trek, sort of termite colony, sort of techno-communism... People have started replicating themselves, implanting, augmenting, virtual reality, etc. People are no longer confined to their physical bodies, they all live in a virtual collective 'hive' mind. At any instant, they can create any kind of physical being and inhabit it in the real world. People can make copies of themselves fight to the death just for entertainment. Now, the individual is just an appendage of a greater organism. There is no longer any difference between living or machine. The means of production are now 'evolved' to fit their needs. Instead of micro-competition between individuals, there is macro-competition of individuals as one entity against the forces that conflict with its configuration. 3. Growth and one-ness with the universe create 'One-One': the hive mind 'feels' every part of every world it spans. Every planet is a gear in its galaxy-spanning clockwork. The hive mind has unlocked all the secrets about the universe it inhabits. Its model of reality becomes reality itself. There is nothing special, nothing to be curious about, and no values. It only lives to grow, assimilate more matter into its internal structure, to end the tendency to chaos, and bring order to the universe. And, once it reaches this final state... kaputski! So it all seems kind of pointless in the end. I guess the trip matters more than the destination.

What do you mean self-regulating? Ensuring that capitalists always win? You should stop reading capitalist propaganda. There is nothing holy about punching buttons on a calculator. Capitalists just want to make the most profits, so they set price which sells the most products for greatest cash. It is part math and part guesses - completely brainless task! These guys aren't geniuses, they make mistakes too. It is like evolution. It slow and painful process that takes many years and many failed attempts to get it right. If there was a smart being that had more information, he could do the same things in a fraction of the time and without the same mistakes. Think - if a guy with a calculator in each company can do it with limited information about his local part of the economy, then it can be done even better by an integrated network with TOTAL information about every part of the economy. Look at how much it helped Russia - it was lifted out of the dark ages and turned into space-age super-power with planned economy. Then it turned into 3rd world country again when it became capitalist. It's called control theory, part of cybernetics. It relies on a feedback control loop to maintain a steady state of economic homeostasis. Inventory is made of availible goods and rate of consumption is measured. Projections are made, and targets are set to make up for the difference. Rate of production is adjusted accordingly. There are detailed equations for feedback control, but that requires good understanding of the math behind cybernetics. You're still thinking in terms of capitalist economics! Look - government will own all factories, industrial machinery, raw materials, etc. It doesn't NEED to pay for refining, manufacturing, production, construction, and everything else. All it needs to pay for are the workers. And if the work is done by machines, then government doesn't even need to pay for it! It just pays for the workers that run the powerplants that power the machines. Building space colony will put more money into the hands of consumers, which will then be spent on goverment goods and services. The only limit is actual physical wealth - raw materials, territory, workers themselves, etc. So you are worried too much about money. What is money after all? It is just means of exchange. Actually, socialism won't even use paper money - it will all be computerized. It will only be called money by tradition. And no profits means there will be no gigantic gap between the rich capitalists and the working class. You like risks? Become space colonist - you will travel to distant world, terraform it while living in "space commune", then engineer a new bio-system to inhabit the planet, found a new society, and become its historic figure. Become cybernaut - your mind will be merged with machine, you will become part of greater entity, you will be free of the warped matrix of human perception, and you will transcend confines of the flesh. Become bio-engineer - you will experiment with new forms of life, play god in the role of evolution, and you will you will design the next generation of humans. Become nano-engineer - you'll assemble everything atom by atom, you will explore the world of bacteria and viruses, and you will create self-reproducing, self-organizing automatons that evolve to greater levels of complexity. Become soldier - you'll be trained to shoot rifle, fly jet, operate tank, you will become part of a giant fighting machine, and you will conquer new lands in the name of socialism. That's a capitalist lie, stop reading bourgeois agitprop. There was world-wide downturn in business in 1970s caused by recession and inflation. To prevent companies from collapsing and turning into anarchy, government had to nationalize everything. And the USA had to do similarly with "Economic Stabilization Act of 1970", introducing wage and price controls. Socialism saved the world from the recession created by capitalism. But this isn't the history they teach at school. What does democracy have to do with economics? If economy is controlled by elected people, does that still make it dictatorship? Capitalism is the real dictatorship. Nobody appointed the rich to power. "Democratic capitalism" is an oxymoron. How can you get elected unless you have lots of money for advertising and election campaigns? ...or lots of corporate "friends" who give you "campaign donations"? Why would politicians go through all the trouble of politics, unless they were getting paid a lot by the rich? Do you think politicians really care so much about their ideas that they would go through all that trouble? No wonder all parties are the same thing. Different sides of the same coin, so to say. Politicians are just puppets. No politician will ever do anything, except make money for himself and make government friendly for the rich. Yes, after 1985, when traitor Gorbachov began destroying USSR by installing free-market.

You obviously don't understand the Marxist theory, so pay close attention. Communism is the final result of socialism, but before that money still exists in socialism. As new technologies innovate means of production, they increase productive capacity. This trend must reach an "event horizon", after which the old system breaks down. Eventually productive capacity exceeds our ability to consume it, and companies go out of business because people only need fraction of what is sold. Prices would be practically 0, because supply far exceeds demand. How much you can get would no longer depend on how much you can afford, but on how much you can physically consume within 24 hours. Private property then becomes a meaningless idea because people can have whatever they need. The money system also naturally decays, along with bourgois-proletariat class system, and government becomes redundant, because all reasons for its existance are gone. The communist maxim is "From each according to his abilities, To each according to his needs". So now you know what the second part of that means. The same system of checks and balances that stops the same kind of corruption in your government. Abused workers file lawsuit -> Offenders get sued -> Politicians lose careers -> Victims get compensation. What's so orderly about recession and inflation? What about large-scale innovations like industrialization, automation, computerization, or whatever is yet to come. Any sort of massive change like this must wait for the right economic signals. Businesses first need to find a profitable opportunity, stockholders need to then begin investing in the company. It will then take several years for the business to grow. Imagine there's some great new innovation - let's say, a cheap car design that runs on a renewable fuel, but production of this fuel requires industrial facilities which do not exist. The new car will not sell, because these industrial facilities do not exist to make the fuel, and no one will construct the industrial facilities because no one will buy the fuel. The point is that growth takes time, and there will only be growth where there is profit. But under socialism, any innovation can be put into effect immediately. Space colonization, new means of production, human cloning, genetic engineering, nano-technology, artificial intelligence, cybernetic economic planning system, automated mass transit, etc, etc... No, I don't have time to publish everything I do, but I've already covered the main points. What don't you understand?

Here's why I think socialism works, and why it's better than capitalism. I'll keep this short and informative. Health-care, education, and housing should be free, Because the country needs smart and healthy people to prosper. Because health, education, and a home are the bare minimums for a normal life. Because people should be free to choose what to spend their earnings on. Socialism doesn't need a tax system, because government already owns all businesses/firms. Any money the people spend will go to the government, and the government will then use it to pay the people who work for it. The flow of money balances out, nobody makes any profits, and thus justice is served in the eyes of Marxists. Competition will still exist in socialist economy, but this competition will be much more beneficial and productive. Government will set detailed goals for different firms, like resource-efficiency, durability, re-usability, recyclability, etc. The best firms will recieve benefits, and the worst will be reorganized. This way, good work will always be rewarded, and all the benefits of the market will still be availible to everyone, but without the chaos of "economic cycles". So, competition can be "relaxed" to promote cooperation between firms, or it can be increased to encourage more effort, greater productivity, more efficiency, greater haste, etc. City planners will also have the ability to design cities from the ground - up. Nothing will be left to chance. That means no more traffic congestion, ghettos, or uncontrolled urban 'sprawl'. Roads will be wide, clean, everything will be within a short distance, and ambulances, police, and fire trucks will be able to provide speedy assistance. This also means clean breathing air and safer streets. Dirty industry won't intrude on neighbourhoods, and there will be no "safe havens" for drug dealers, thieves, or other low-lifes. Economy will also be improved by computerized planning (not another bloated bureaucracy). A country-wide cybernetic system will keep track of product inventories, and manage production and regional distribution. The problem is that capitalism puts a speed-limit on innovation. Companies have only limited information about their local part of the economy, so before economy can regain equillibrium, it must pass signals between stockholders, consumers, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, producers, etc. This also results in unnecessary duplication of effort and waste. But under the cybernetic system, information from every source will be integrated into a single, distributed system. Any change will cause immediate adjustment at every level of the economy, making reaction-time immediate. This means socialist economy will be more responsive and adaptive than free-market! According to my analysis, increasing economic integration ("corporate subsidization"), the growing government, and computerization of the economy will naturally lead to socialism. So, there's no need for another revolution. Socialism will be the end-result of current trends, the next logical step in the evolution of economy. Socialism is the way of the future!

There's nothing special about the mind! It's just emergent result from many, many neurons (that individually follow basic rules.) The mind is software (running on the 'brain' hardware). And since mind is basically an information-processing machine, the same process should be possible on computer hardware... with enough computing power. Two minds can even inhabit one brain, like in split-brain individuals. Since mind isn't located in a single place, different parts of the brain run their own programs. It takes the the frontal cortex of each hemisphere to coordinate all these areas (like an "operating system" program). One mind can also be copied to two places. BUT, from the point that it recieves unique experiences, it will have a life of its own. So if I made 'replica' of myself and stabbed him with a sharp dagger, I wouldn't feel it... but HE would! That would be great, if you could make replicas... Imagine making a replica of yourself and battling to the death just for entertainment? You wouldn't lose anything, since he's just a replica. But why constrain yourself to just one body? Imagine taking control of an entire hive of yourselves! Each body willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Each one as just an appendage of the great super-organism... It will be like a techno-communist dystopia...