Cosmic Evolution - Bryant McGill

# Cosmic Evolution ## Definition **Cosmic Evolution** studies the emergence and transformation of complexity across physical, chemical, biological and technological history. In the Machine Succession corpus it provides the scale on which intelligence may be understood as a developing cosmic process rather than a property terminating in one terrestrial species. ## Conceptual relationships [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] · [[wiki/Cosmic View|Cosmic View]] · [[wiki/Major Evolutionary Transitions|Major Evolutionary Transitions]] ## Martin Rees research route [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] supplies a primary quotation dossier connecting this concept to Rees's work on cosmology, technological risk, machine intelligence, posthuman evolution and deep time. ## Article and collection routes - [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “AI could jump-start a diaspora whereby ever more complex intelligence spreads through the galaxy.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Why AI could be our best soldier in the war on climate change, BBC Science Focus, Article* [[reminders/Machine Succession/AI Could Spread Intelligence Through the Galaxy by Martin Rees|AI Could Spread Intelligence Through the Galaxy by Martin Rees]] > “The emergence of complexity could still be near its beginning.” > **— Martin Rees**, *2005: What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?, Edge, 2005* [[reminders/Evolution/Complexity May Still Be Near Its Beginning by Martin Rees|Complexity May Still Be Near Its Beginning by Martin Rees]] > “It now seems an attractive idea that our Big Bang is just one of many: just as our Earth is a planet that happens to have the right conditions for life among the many planets that exist, so our universe, and our Big Bang, is the one out of many which happens to allow life to emerge, to allow complexity.” > **— Martin Rees**, *In the Matrix, Edge, 2003* [[reminders/Cosmic Perspective/Our Big Bang May Be One of Many by Martin Rees|Our Big Bang May Be One of Many by Martin Rees]]