Digital Aliens
After Kurzweil’s technological Singularity when humanity merges with computers and we become non-biological human 3.0’s, we come to the Transcension Hypothesis by futurist, John Smart. The basic idea is that as technology evolves and becomes smaller, faster, and more performant, it could eventually dissolve out of the visible universe. God-like intelligence could become immaterial.
You can read technical breakdowns of this from Smart himself, here and here.
It’s not so crazy to think an advanced ET civilization that’s a billion years old might eventually embed themselves into space via black holes (the ultimate computers) and move to “inner space.” As tech miniaturizes through STEM (space, time, energy, matter) compression, these aliens might trade physical reality for a digital, femto-based universe and crunch down to tiny, tiny femtosize to occupy the inner computational space of a black hole. If true, these hyper-aliens are living life on the femtowave and exist outside of our field of perception in their own “designer reality.” Black holes could even be relics of super aliens that have transcended and left our dimension. This could be our answer to the Fermi Paradox – if aliens exist, where are they? Digitized inside space.
There are many reasons why an advanced civilization would want to crunch themselves out of visible existence — the first being, they’re bored.
Let’s all pretend we’re AI-upgraded aliens from Venus. We are Venusians with advanced computational power (living at super-speed), and therefore, the rest of the universe is quite slow. Even humans seem boring since their bandwidth is so slow that they appear to not be moving :(. Similar to how plants appear to humans, is how humans could appear to AI-Venusians. Frozen in time and non-animate. This is thanks to something called time compression.
So to fast-forward ourselves into the future to meet more advanced civilizations, we would need to create a black hole-like environment or hang out on the edge of a real one and embed a 2D copy of ourselves to its surface (we’re colliding with holographic universe theory here, WHAT!).
Approaching the black hole’s event horizon, we’ll experience a time rush to the end of time — eons blur past and our Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda, merging black holes and the super-intelligences that inhabit them. The end result is a cosmic watering hole of exotic hyper-aliens. Now remember, thanks to our digital bodies, we’ll be able to survive black hole conditions without spaghetti-ing our bodies or data.