cybernetic totalism

Here is a partial roster of the component beliefs of cybernetic totalism:

1. That cybernetic patterns of information provide the ultimate and best way to understand reality.
2. That people are no more than cybernetic patterns.
3. That subjective experience either doesn't exist, or is unimportant because it is some sort of ambient or peripheral effect.
4. That what Darwin described in biology, or something like it, is in fact also the singular, superior description of all creativity and culture.
5. That qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of information systems will be accelerated by Moore's Law. And finally, the most dramatic:
6. That biology and physics will merge with computer science (becoming biotechnology and nanotechnology), resulting in life and the physical universe becoming mercurial; achieving the supposed nature of computer software. Furthermore, all of this will happen very soon! Since computers are improving so quickly, they will overwhelm all the other cybernetic processes, like people, and will fundamentally change the nature of what's going on in the familiar neighborhood of Earth at some moment when a new "criticality" is achieved- maybe in about the year 2020. To be a human after that moment will be either impossible or something very different than we now can know.

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Let's take the "nanobots take over" scenario. It seems to me that the most likely scenarios involve either:

1. Super-nanobots everywhere that run old software- linux, say. This might be interesting. Good video games will be available, anyway.
2. Super-nanobots that evolve as fast as natural nanobots- so don't do much for millions of years.
3. Super-nanobots that do new things soon, but are dependent on humans. In all these cases humans will be in control, for better or for worse.