POPULATION BINARY

   Humans have been dwelling around a Population One star for longer than our collective memory can hold. Population Two stars are much older than ours. Therefore, "Population Zero" stars (as an alternative classification) must then include all the yet-to-be-formed or much younger stars, either still developing or in the solar process of preparing to give birth to their respective planetary systems. Its important to keep in mind that all the potential extraterrestrial civilizations out there that SETI has been obsessed with discovering will naturally come to follow in and out of the wake of our own existence. In a world where travel to other stars in search of their possible colonies remains an unreachable dream or a challenging proposition to say the least, there may linger a contiguous chance of contact with systems whose civilizations have yet to manifest. The chances of our making first contact would then involve the matter of our continuing to survive as an advanced civilization for long enough to do so; an interval in time that may yet remain beyond our ability to withstand.

   A Population Zero Star would be the type, super rich in metals and requisite materials, that will eventually spawn a good brood of exoplanets that might one day host their own civilizations or life-forms. The systems we've discovered with exoplanets could very well qualify as Population Zero stars according to this line of reasoning. (Remember that here and now, on Earth, we circle about a Population One Star.) Do the math. The best we might do toward establishing some form of contact with a possible extraterrestrial civilization or pristine alien ecology, in my view, would be to send a remote probe to that system that will monitor its ongoing development. Of course the main problem with that would be the human race may not exist long enough to finish receiving the necessary feedback. If we did manage to survive that long, by the time that life form's monitored assessment appeared on our radar, they'd be mere hatchlings in contrast to our far more ancient (more likely extinct) species. They would be newly emergent beings from nonexistence into becoming their very own Population One star life forms. Perhaps in a sort of "dream-time"—communication with this sentience may be possible. For example, something of our essence may be imprinted upon them if we were to succeed in contacting them somehow through dreaming. Who knows? There's a lot about the nature of dreaming we still have to learn about. An extraterrestrial society might end up becoming somewhat familiar with us by that method. We could try to devote ourselves to this long distance dream communication. By virtue of a sort of illimitable dream-meditation we might succeed at broadcasting across the timeline—and for all we know, might be capable of planting a suggestion into their consciousness. Again, who knows? Perhaps this idea may only work one way. They might discover our presence as long-vanished ghosts that left post-hypnotic suggestions of our existence in their dreams. We might haunt them yet. Think about what it must really mean to be haunted.

   The point which remains as we move along these mysteriously configured celestial pathways together (our potential distant solar neighbors and ourselves) shows how we're separated by aspect of space and time as we somehow manage to each exist independently disassociated from one another. Our very electromagnetic nature may keep us discrete from one another, rather than any perceived limitation of our nurtured capabilities. Being surrounded every moment by the enigmatic void may incur both terror and wonder if pondered over long enough. On the other hand, by the same token, there may also not be that much substance to this apparently tangible mass of our bodies, minds, and lives. Existence: what, exactly, does it appear to be, really? There's the rub: appearance must be relegated to that which we perceive. It may just as easily turn out to be that we aren't merely scaled-down sentient bipeds in a colossal universe, so much as it may end up that we're aspects of the entire cosmos itself experiencing a case of confused identity.

   We may not necessarily be able to engage in a practical discussion about things such as interstellar travel and the search for extraterrestrial life for the fundamental reason that our existence itself—irregardless of how we've chosen to define it—may more realistically equate to being the totality of the cosmos and even potentially the surrounding void itself (rather than our limited viewpoint or any single one of its microscopic and seemingly separate components). As we continue to unpack the quantum information still streaming in at our disposal, the strange dynamic of our position within the spacetime continuum in relation to the remainder of our sprawling cosmos should crystallize in our minds and gain more focus over time. After all, both Einstein and Minkowsky helped lead us to understand that space and time are part of a singular continuum.

   Toward this end I have enjoyed ruminating over various strange notions, such as my Law of Inversion with its ties in counter-intuition (which posits that truth, being necessarily a relative matter, may often be closer to the opposite of what we generally perceive it to be). My POPULATION BINARY hypothesis aims to both help point the way towards resolving the Fermi Paradox as well as to try and provide a more realistic designation for the whereabouts of potential extraterrestrial civilizations or ecologies. Taking relativity into account, if alien wildlife were to appear not concurrent but before and after us in time, then by definition all the old Population Two stars' and even older Population Three stars' respective life-forms would've gone extinct long before our own inception here, leaving stars forming in the wake directly after us which could conceivably become hosts to extraterrestrial civilizations or life-forms, thus neatly rendering their designation as "Population Zero" stars—solar systems that are yet to complete their process of bearing exoplanets for the cultivation of a future progeny. There may not be any stars alongside us. 

What A Quantum Computer Looks Like

a)the universe b)a galaxy c)our solar system d)Earth
you must choose but choose wisely or the computer
ends up using you we already built the thing
in the future in the first place its how we store
information after all's said and done here now

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