There is a physical materiality to the act of producing the components that make up the web - words, the machinery and software and communication devices than enable the transmission of words, or the placement of words, into the web space. Some physical limits, like two objects occupying the same space at the same time, are transcended, but others aren't. Bodies are still required, bodies that carry identities and values shaped by relationships.

The energy being at the edge of the galaxy may be body-less, but that is not the same as omnicient. The fact that I have access to the web and a certain understanding of how to navigate it and add my words to its content does not mean that I know it or all that is within in it. Sometimes I go point by point, systematically through the many ends that touch one another until I am somewhere completely on the far side of the sphere. Other times, because I know a shortcut or two, I cut through the hollow core directly to that far place. I tend to jump to places with content that matters to me, but in that direct leap I may miss information that matters to others, that could matter to me, if I knew it was there, which I don't unless I invest the time to link my way step by step through the possibilities.

Time boundaries restrict the number of things the embodied I can care about, that matter to the mind in this body in this limited temporal space.

(the longer version of this post can be found here.)