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Neo-Humans. The future of technology and man
This is part of a lecture by Dr. Eamonn F. Healy, a famous biochemist.
Just wanted to give you an idea of some of the cuttig edge changes that will be occuring in this century. What began with human cloning will now end up with a new race of Neo-Humans.
Read with an open mind!
By Dr. Eamonn F. Healy
Before looking at the highlights of human development you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then add the development of it's interaction with the environment.
Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life, proceeds through the hominid, comming to the evolution of mankind(Neanderthal, Cromagnon man). Now interestingly what you're looking at are three strians, biological, anthropological(Development of cities, cultures), and cultural, which is human expression.
What you've seen here is the evolution of populations not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition if you look at the timescales that's involved here. 2 billion years for life, 6 million years for the Hominid, 100 thousand years for mankind as we know it.
You're begining to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. Then when you get to agriculture, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution you're looking at 10 thousand years, 400 years, 150 years. you're seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution it's going to telescope to the point that we should be able to see it manifest within our lifetime, within a generation.
The new evolution stems from information and it stems from two types of information, Digital and Analougue. the digital is artificial intelligence, the analougue results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism, and you knit the two together with neuro biology.
Before the new evolutionary paradigm, one organism would die and the other dominate, but in the new paradigm they would coexist as a mutualy supportive, non-competetive grouping, independant from the external. And what is interesting here is that evolution becomes an individually centered process, emenating from the needs and desires of the individual and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is at the whim of the collective.
So you produce a neo-human, with a new individuality, a new consciousness. But that's all in the begining of the evolutionary cycle, because as the next cycle proceeds the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Untill what? until you reach a crescendo. In a way it could be imagined as an almost instantaneous fulfillment of human. Human and neo-human potential. It could be something totaly different, it could be the amplification of the individual. The multiplication of individual existances. Parallel existances. Now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space.
And the manifestations of this neo-human type evolution could be dramaticaly counter intuitive, that's the interesting part. the old evolution is cold, it's sterile, it's efficient! And it's manifestaions are those social adaptations. You're talking parasitism, dominance, morality, war, predation. These would be subject to deemphasis, these would be subject to deevolution. The new evolutionary paradigm would give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These would be the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we hope to see.
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Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent; that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Last edited by Illusion on Nov-06-2003 at 18:54
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