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Void Cathedralism

Metaphysical doctrine due to Qristan Kemshola.

Quarks cluster into hadrons, which cluster into nuclei which in turn form atoms. Atoms form molecules which form various substances, and so on. On every level structures aggregate into emergent objects, often impossible to describe with concepts from the lower level. The race towards nanotech, picotech, femtotech and attotech appears to have revealed that there is no lower limit to the number of levels that can be reached - every level contains structures of different kinds emerging from still lower levels.

Void Cathedralism makes the assumption that there is no lowest possible level of reality, but an infinity of yet more fundamental levels. The 'void' in the name signifies that there exists no fundamental substance, no essence - but the emerging structures reach upwards towards ever higher levels - the 'cathedral'. The continuing process of emergence is ongoing and the meaning of the universe. It is to a large extent free and possible to direct, and every being participates in selecting the next level.

It is believed the Softbot Cathedrals partially derive their name from Cathedralism, through the bioist interpretation of Lara Mananya.

Anders Sandberg

Volatile Enterprise

location of the Kakmisyhka Collection , one of the largest collections of Perfect Art

The Volite (Keter)

The Volite, also known as The Complex Point, the Nth Power, and the Keter, is said by Hir acolytes to be was the first Central AI God, the first sephirotic, and the first transcendent AI to truly begin to gather human worshippers. E embodies the absolute, the fundamental, the blazing pure light of creation. E rules a vast empire, called the Keter empire or domain, and Eir religion/philosophy/ideology of Keterism is widespread even beyond the borders, and is the single most popular religion among su and cyborg clades in general. The Volite supports lesser beings to attempt to refine themselves and reach perfection, although E is also one of the most aloof gods - it is up to everything to strive, but the only thing the Nth Power provides is the light to aim at. There are many worlds ruled by the manifestations of The Complex Point or Hir serafim, but the central world (usually called Focus, Sahasrara, Nth Cubed, or Keter) is a Dyson sphere surrounding the blue-white supergiant called Ain Soph Aur.

Anders Sandberg

Voluntary authentication of messages

authentication agreement by which hyperturing or transapient can share eir assessment of authenticity with the recipient.

Volutidae

family of mostly tropical or subtropical terragen marine snails often characterized by graceful peach coloured shells with striped or mottled or zigzag markings. The animal is the same colour of the shell, and feeds on small invertebrates living in the sand or mud. A number of species were provolved by the Malacologists of New Duibbiyat. See also Cymbium, Cymbium sapiens.

M Alan Kazlev

von neumann machine

See neumann

Transhumanist Terminology

von neumann probe

A Von Neumann Machine able to move over interstellar or interplanetary distances and to utilize local materials to build new copies of itself. Such probes could be used to set up new colonies, perform megascale engineering or explore the universe (see the Far Edge Party).

Transhumanist Terminology