Wang's Carpets

Description:

Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the galaxy. One of the copies of Cater-Zimmermann, Paolo Venetti, arrives at Orpheus; a water-world inhabited by floating mats that perform as a Turing machine.

subjects: science fiction,  short story,  microprobes,  transhumanism,  eigenstates,  scout probes,  solopsism,  extra-terrestrial life,  consciousness,  dimensions,  Turing Machine,  neutrino,  polysaccharide,  wormholes

People: Paolo Venetti,  Elena,  Hermann,  Liesl,  Karpal,  Orlando Venetti,  transhumanists,  Gleisner robots,  clone,  Wang's carpets,  Carter-Zimmerman diaspora,  exoselves,  alien solipsists,  Earth-self,  humans

Places: Carter-Zimmerman polis,  universe,  exoplanets,  Earth,  Vega,  Orpheus,  Ashton-Laval,  Satellite Pinatubo,  Fomalhaut,  squids,  Valladas in Konishi,  Mars,  Regulus,  galaxy,  Alpha Centauri,  space ship

Times: Future