 wildcat says: MARTIN REES President, The Royal Society; Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics; Master, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Author, Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival Very neat condensation of thoughts to think. We could add that Rees has mundane megaterrorism as a most likely threat. More skeletally, we can pause to consider the absolute truth that when those shreds of wishful thinking that gave rise to religion are removed, there are no logical or empirical reasons to suggest humanity or anything else has a future of any sort, and that most certainly each of us as individuals will become extinct pretty soon. Always fun to focus on death, annihilation and as cited above our impotence to know or plan except in phantasy. We could even return to now and what is! That would be a revolutionary shift of consciousness. If you were a Liverpool fan you'd be thinking like this too....  there are no logical or empirical reasons to suggest humanity or anything else has a future of any sort,With the advances of science and information growing exponentially, it is quite feasible we'd be "virtually" immortal in less than 500 years if by no other means than by human engineering. Once we are able to design ourselves, augmented if necessary with composite materials, plus state of the art electro-mechanical servo bodies and brains, all your kind will be assimilated. We are the Borg. No, seriously; our technology and science is improving so rapidly our future as a race of people will contain greater and greater "conscious" evolution, which wasn't possible before.... Still don't see what logical or empirical bases guarantee the 'race of people' necessarily will (or, equally, won't) survive past tomorrow. Is it based on hope? Or faith? Or just habitual thought patterns? Still don't see what logical or empirical bases guarantee the 'race of people' necessarily will (or, equally, won't) survive past tomorrow. Is it based on hope? Or faith? Or just habitual thought patterns?I think the author's argument is that we absolutely will, at some point, cease being human. We will either kill ourselves off, die from unavoidable circumstances, or evolve out of it. We simply cannot stay human as we know it. I prefer to think we can overcome our stupidity through the advances of science. But we will leave the human form. The only matter is how. |
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