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Analysis of Some Speculations Concerning the Far Future of Intelligent Civilizations

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I discuss some of the speculations proposed by Stewart (2010a). These include the following propositions: the cooperation at larger and larger scales, the existence of larger scale processes, the enhancement of the tuning as the universe cycle repeats, the transmission between universes and the motivations to produce a new universe.

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Rottiers (2010) did also comment on Stewart’s (2010a) paper. See (Stewart 2010b) for replies.

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Vidal, C. Analysis of Some Speculations Concerning the Far Future of Intelligent Civilizations. Found Sci 17, 43–46 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9221-8

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