Bit of a smorgasbord of a post (or a gish-gallop, if I'm not mincing words). Sorry to say, but much of your reasoning is opaque to me. Possibly because I misunderstand. Infinite priors? Anthropic reasoning applied to 'higher beings', because we emphatize with such a higher being's cogito? You lost me there.

In order for a lower being to evolve into a higher being the lower being has to eventually believe the higher being is possible so that they can work toward becoming or creating it. From the point of view of the higher being, this belief is a requirement for it to exist and be sentient.

I'd say that the possibility of a non-expected FOOM process would be a counterexample, but then again, I have no idea whether you'd qualify a superintelligence of the uFAI variety as a 'higher being'.

If time is cyclical (...)

Didn't see that coming.

It may be that you've put a large amount of effort into coming to the conclusions you have, but you really need to put some amount of effort into bridging those inferential gaps.

If we look at using the internet as a method of offloading both memory and processing from our brain, we see it as a tool that allows our brain to reach higher level abstractions and better reasoned and tested hypothesis. By deferring to the hive mind, we remove the need to actually sift through information ourselves. Once we trust our own ability to filter the signal from the hive mind's noise, then we can defer to it more and more to make decisions for us, freeing our minds to make higher level decisions.

The more filtered you get, the better it works. I rarely read articles nowadays. I read the comments first and only read the article if multiple comments say "wow must read" and if the subject matter is something I really want more depth in. Even better, don't read many comments. Using sites that order comments by popularity, you can get the absolute most distilled wisdom by reading a few of the highest rated comments and moving on.

If you have developed your own ability to efficiently meta-aggregate information from all these different types of information aggregators, and you can resist the drive toward curiosity and learning more in depth, then you can essentially turn yourself into a Competent Man/Woman solely using your intuitive information aggregation capabilities.