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mOOn platOOn human evOlutiOn: where are we grOwing?
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Savants prove that the human computer exists, even though in its present state it’s typically married to cognitive disabilities. If those disabilities are eliminated, our capacities for mental incredibility are staggering.
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Have you observed, over the last few millennia, a division of the human species?
It appears that for the last 10,000 years or so we are breeding with others like ourselves. Not by race. Not by religion. Not by economic strata. We are breeding with others who…
1) Take life as it comes, live casually and blend in with the environment.
OR
2) Are driven to achieve personal greatness and stand apart from others.
Are we splitting into two subspecies, destined to be as disparate as Neanderthals became to our ancestors? If so, it will have been imposed by ourselves, by choice, not by oceans, geographical giants and deadly deserts.
Maybe it’s a moot point for you. Maybe you think we won’t survive long enough to evolve. I can’t think of a necessary reason why we have to go extinct, but that’s almost like saying I can’t think of a reason why I should have to die just because humans have died since the beginning. Species do seem to run their course, just as an individual’s constantly renewing cells eventually give out. Who knows? We might even give it up voluntarily…
Are we subject to evolutionary forces that will transform us if we live on for millions of years? Or will those “natural” forces be superceded by our own technological usurpation? I can’t buy any scenario that assumes we’re going to self-destruct. Not unless that power literally falls into the hands of one individual. Dinosaurs managed to survive millions of years and few had our advantages.
Now, it could be that we’re preventing human evolution by mistaking evolutionary moves as disease, and “correcting” them.
To engineer an improvement in the human species, some might recommend the co-mingling (fucking and breeding) of people who have characteristics we have decided are the best. Not that some sneaky “bad” genes won’t get through. But for the most part, that would also suggest discouraging hook-ups at the Special Olympics and keeping a heavy supply of condoms and birth control pills available for fans of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
But what about the aberrations appearing today? There’s been a huge increase in autism. Is the brain leaping ahead of the nervous system it’s evolving from? Savants prove that the human computer exists, even though in its present state it’s typically married to cognitive disabilities. If those disabilities are eliminated, our capacities for mental incredibility are staggering.
Superior intelligence in minority populations may lead to a victory of United Morons. Because even a moron knows something you don’t, and might just specialize in it. An intelligent person might know a little about everything – and a lot about nothing. A band of determined morons VS their counterparts, the smart procrastinators? I’ll bet on the morons.
We’re gonna change ourselves when it’s possible, attaching machines and shooting up genes and one day we won’t have to die. But some will still want to. Some people always want to stay behind.
Even if the morons win, I believe some battling contingent of sharpies will go on to geneticize machinery and become it, and become a new being because of it.
And then a completely new species will emerge.
It will be designer DNA written by our descendants and it will be unlike anything composed of organic elements before it.
And it just might go back and eat the morons.
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