Claim · 1998 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Moravec's essay of 1998 relays Barrow and Tipler's cosmology, in which human-spawned intelligence expands until the accessible universe is inhabited by a cohesive mind, and states that it is consistent with the one in "this book".

One recorded claim. The claim panel gives its qualification, the source passages with their place in each source, and how it was checked.

What it connects

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence → articulates → Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

Simulation, Consciousness, Existencearticulates ↓Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1998 · publication Records dated 1998 →
Wording attested: 2000-08-29. The cross-family check found the archive capture of 29 August 2000 byte-identical to the copy read.
Claimed date: 1996-06. The author's publication list (hpm.pubs.html) gives an English original in Telepolis, June 1996; the page itself does not state it, and that version was not read.
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Relay of another author

Scope and limitsThe cosmology is Barrow and Tipler's; Moravec states that it is consistent with the one in "this book", which is not identified on the page.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence

Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML) · 1998

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“In their future cosmology, consistent with the one in this book, human-spawned intelligence will expand into space, until the entire accessible universe is inhabited by a cohesive mind”

Location in source Section "Universal Appreciation"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Hans Moravec
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 db78c230a787f47dbbd7dbd57a24eda4d82511fd805bed4729b9f56fda35a438). Author-hosted HTML headed "Simulation, Consciousness, Existence Hans Moravec, 1998". The page refers to "this book". Earliest capture located: 2000-08-29 (not compared).
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hans Moravec, “Simulation, Consciousness, Existence”, 1998.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (28 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A passage of the document meets the proposition’s criterion. The record documents what the text states, in its register (fiction and satire are labelled); it is not evidence that the proposition is true and implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Year printed at the head of the author's page; when the page was posted is not stated.

Record ID ht-w10-moravec-1998-simulation-consciousness-existence