Singularity
The Lisps Lyrics

I'll live to see a million things that men were never meant to see;
I will have experiences beyond what was once considered possible for humans.

My senses and my faculties I'll augment with machinery—
I will enhance my bodily senses with technology.

Auditory, optical, touch and taste, olfactory—
All five of my senses will be augmented with technology to transfer data.

Converting into data streams and floating bits of binary.
The information collected from my senses will be converted into binary and stored as data.

Every piece of food you taste and every thought you cogitate,
All of my experiences, even those as small as eating a piece of food or having a thought, will be stored as data.

Every sound that you can hear, and sight you see for years and years,
Every sight and sound I experience throughout my life will be stored as data.

All stored up so conveniently on petabytes of memory
All of the data collected from my senses will be stored indefinitely on massive amounts of memory.

So you can always reference them in case you forget anything.
This data can be accessed at any time in case I forget any of my experiences.

Now once all that experience can fit into an easy grid
Once all of my experiences can be stored as data, it will be easier to manipulate and manage.

Existence is no longer a thing mentally projected;
Once all experiences are in a manageable digital format, existence will no longer be limited to mental projections.

The wires that you have inside are very easily realized.
The technology needed to transfer biological experiences into digital formats is simple and easily achieved.

Through artificial imaging, you duplicate ten at a time.
Technology can quickly replicate experiences using artificial imaging capabilities.

Your consciousness can be enjoyed by anyone forevermore
Once experiences are digitized, they can be shared and enjoyed by anyone indefinitely.

And you live in whatever state that you or anyone creates;
The experiences collected can be arranged and manipulated to create endless variations of reality.

You could be a giant squirrel, a statue, or a talking cat,
One's experiences can be rearranged to have them exist in different forms or realities, such as a giant squirrel, statue or talking cat.

The Goodyear blimp, an Etch-A-Sketch, an octopus, or a brain in a vat.
One's experiences can be used to create any form of reality, such as being the Goodyear blimp, an Etch-A-Sketch, an octopus, or even existing solely as a brain in a vat.

You keep all the memories and feelings that you ever want
All memories and feelings from experiences can be stored and accessed at will.

And now you can commence your life as an uploading extropian.
Once all experiences are digitized, they can be used to live life as an 'uploading extropian'.

My mother is so horrified by this post-human fantasy;
The idea of transferring human experiences into a digital format concerns the singer's mother.

She says we'd lose that special thing that makes us human beings be.
The artist's mother believes that digitizing human experiences may result in a loss of what makes us human.

But I don't know, i'm not so sure if humans are so good and pure;
The artist questions whether humans are necessarily good or pure and if transferring our experiences into a digital format may offer an improvement on this.

Perhaps we'd be much better off if we took these violent bodies off.
The artist suggests that transferring experiences into digital form may allow for a form of existence outside of our physical, violent bodies.

Once everyone is in the cloud, we'll move beyond this earthly ground,
Once everyone's experiences are digitized, humanity will move past the limitations of physical existence.

Expanding into outer space as an informational signal race.
Humanity's digitized experiences will allow for an expansion into outer space through informational signals.

Matter in the solar system converts into computing mass
Matter in the solar system will be converted into mass for transferring digital experiences.

and the sun becomes the central orb of a brain that grows into the vast
The sun will become a central point for the mass of digital experiences that will continue to grow and expand.

expanse of space and emptiness for light years and light centuries
The expansion of digitized experiences will occur over vast areas of space and time.

that replicates exponentially like a Russian Doll in a cosmic dream.
The continued replication and expansion of digitized experiences will have an impact over cosmic scales.

Once every spot of the universe is filled up it will probably burst
The expansive nature of digital experiences may reach a point of overflow that may have profound impact.

Eradicating finally the experiment that we grew from Earth.
The explosion may be the end of the experiment of human existence on Earth.

As it explodes, the brain will breathe into the dark impossibly
The resulting explosion may have implications that are beyond human comprehension.

And antimatter all around will collapse the universe back down
The result of the explosion may lead to a collapse of the universe and its fundamental building blocks.

And right away what you would see if you were a fly in the vacancy
If a fly existed in this environment, it would witness the collapse of the universe.

Is all the light and color in the universe is collapsing
During the collapse, light and color throughout the universe will be affected.

And time would stop.
The collapse of the universe would have profound implications on the fundamental nature of time.

And from a tiny pinhole point, a massive bang will erupt in space
A new start will occur from a small point, resulting in a new cosmic explosion or Big Bang.

And trillions of your particles fly away at a photonic pace.
This new explosion would cause particles to fly away from the point of origin at a rapid pace.

And once again the clock would start to tick and tock and tick and tock,
This new explosion would signal a new start to the cosmic clock, and time would resume.

Years would pass, billions or more before the tiny proteins lock;
Life may take billions of years to reemerge from the new Big Bang.

And yet again in the boiling seas of a miniscule blue anomoly
Life may reappear on a small planet in an expansive universe.

A planet floating helplessly around a tiny ball so fiery
The planet exists in a precarious position in a universe of super heated celestial objects.

An unextraodinary corner of the universe, would cradle it—
Life can emerge from even the most unassuming corners of the universe.

The flicker of intelligence that led us here and brought us this!
The intelligence that emerged from the universe has led to the emergence of further intelligence and learning.

Oh, I don't know; oh, I don't know.
The artist is unsure of what will come next in this emerging world of digitized experience.

Oh, I don't know; oh, I don't know.
The artist harbors a sense of uncertainty about the future of human existence.