Are you familiar with Tipler's Omega Point Theory?
Not at all.
. High-tech navel gazing, but navel gazing nonetheless.
As for 'the singularity', I call bullshit on that one too. It can't be done. Someone show me a compelling argument that it's theoretically possible for machines to have consciousness, and I will eat my words.
We're not even concrete on what consciousness
is. We don't know the mechanism of it, we don't know why it happened, we don't know why it stops. About the only thing we
do know is that there is
a lot we do not know.
They still thought it was the best option...
And about 70-odd years later,
Gustave de Molinari came up with a
better one.