What is the next evolutionary step for humans.

[AussieTrees]

:?:

Edited April 9, 2016 by AussieTrees

[thelerner]

Hmnn, Homo Technoligous, humanoid species that incorporates computers and various tech into its organism. 

[vonkrankenhaus]

Humans are a rare animal that has conscious control over its own evolution.

 

Interestingly, few are now actually fully conscious.

 

Currently, they are artificially grown and maintained in a temporary worldwide industrial system.

 

They have been domesticated as worker/consumer existing to further develop this system.

 

This sort of custom human has no real connection to the prior evolution of life that has included humans.

 

Because they are merely parts of a system that is temporary.

 

Real human life as manifesting naturally from Heaven and Earth remains to be fully explored in the modern era.

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[dust]

Interesting. Yes, technology will be the major player. Though we continue to evolve in the 'traditional way', the ever-increasing rate of tech development will mean major changes in a relatively short time. (Assuming we aren't all dead in 20 years from WW3, which lasts a whole 5 hours...)

 

Before long humans will be imbued with nanotechnology, I suppose.

 

I find this article rather frightening: https://www.foresight.org/policy/brief2.html

 

The ultimate result could be the end of pain, disease, and aging. These innovations would be relatively uncontroversial..

 

Well... I find the idea of the end of aging incredibly controversial, but there we are. Most won't.

 

Before long humanity won't just be looking to colonize Mars. We'll become an intergalactic plague.

[AussieTrees]

Humans are a rare animal that has conscious control over its own evolution.

 

Interestingly, few are now actually fully conscious.

 

Currently, they are artificially grown and maintained in a temporary worldwide industrial system.

 

They have been domesticated as worker/consumer existing to further develop this system.

 

This sort of custom human has no real connection to the prior evolution of life that has included humans.

 

Because they are merely parts of a system that is temporary.

 

Real human life as manifesting naturally from Heaven and Earth remains to be fully explored in the modern era.

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

 

Often thought this almost mandatory prescription to an urban life,has put many humans'out of touch'with the universe,we have or are becoming,'caged hens' a resource ripe for exploitation,kept nearby to service industry that almost always has negative effects on our planet.

 

Seems we are turning our backs on nature and the outdoors.

 

[Brian]

Hmnn, Homo Technoligous, humanoid species that incorporates computers and various tech into its organism.

The Borg?

 

None for me, thanks.

[AussieTrees]

Interesting. Yes, technology will be the major player. Though we continue to evolve in the 'traditional way', the ever-increasing rate of tech development will mean major changes in a relatively short time. (Assuming we aren't all dead in 20 years from WW3, which lasts a whole 5 hours...)

 

Before long humans will be imbued with nanotechnology, I suppose.

 

I find this article rather frightening: https://www.foresight.org/policy/brief2.html]https://www.foresight.org/policy/brief2.html[/url]

 

 

 

Well... I find the idea of the end of aging incredibly controversial, but there we are. Most won't.

 

Before long humanity won't just be looking to colonize Mars. We'll become an intergalactic plague.

A WW3 lasting all of five hours sounds about right,even so there are always survivors,with many potential evolutionary paths possible.

 

Or we become like a rabbit plague across the galaxy and even the universe beyond.

Edited January 12, 2016 by AussieTrees

[AussieTrees]

The Borg?

None for me, thanks.

Resistance is futile,you will assimilate.

Edited January 12, 2016 by AussieTrees

[ralis]

The Borg?

 

None for me, thanks.

 

That could be our future?

 

[Brian]

That could be our future?

 

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Yeah, it may be inevitable, in fact. I'll go kicking and screaming, though. Edited January 12, 2016 by Brian

[ralis]

Yeah, it may be inevitable, in fact. I'll go kicking and screaming, though.

 

How could you resist her? After all, she is irresistible. 

[Brian]

Perhaps I haven't been properly stimulated.

[zerostao]

or else we could just go extinct. the shrinking brain isnt the only thing shrinking, 

 

Butstudies have shown that men today, across the population, have about 20% less testosterone than men the same age did just two decades ago.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/13/testosterone-week-intro/

 

i think our great corporate researchers and scientific advances in nutrition etc have poisoned us.

[vonkrankenhaus]

It is a common theme lately that "technology" will "save" people.

 

It is very hard for most people to predict.

 

But hindsight is 20-20.

 

Looking back on the past 65 years of "technology" we can see hard evidence of the "saving" that "technology" has accomplished for people.

 

Rates of degeneration have risen astronomically - cancer, heart disease, medical mistakes - these are just the 3 leading causes of death.

 

But there is diabetes, autism, MS, and many many other degenerative conditions also rampant.

 

100 years ago, almost all of these were relatively unheard of.

 

So this diminishment of human beings that has been accomplished by "technology" - how is it suddenly going to become the exact opposite of what it has always been?

 

It has always been a con job.

 

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[LAOLONG]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch

[dust]

studies have shown that men today, across the population, have about 20% less testosterone than men the same age did just two decades ago.

 

Yeah.

 

obesity    (+= diabetes)   =   low T   =   loss of muscle mass, energy, libido; increased depression, diabetes, osteoporosis...

 

No worries, though. Technology will 'fix' this too.

[thelerner]

It is a common theme lately that "technology" will "save" people.

 

It is very hard for most people to predict.

 

But hindsight is 20-20.

 

Looking back on the past 65 years of "technology" we can see hard evidence of the "saving" that "technology" has accomplished for people.

Rates of degeneration have risen astronomically - cancer, heart disease, medical mistakes - these are just the 3 leading causes of death.

But there is diabetes, autism, MS, and many many other degenerative conditions also rampant.

100 years ago, almost all of these were relatively unheard of.

 

So this diminishment of human beings that has been accomplished by "technology" - how is it suddenly going to become the exact opposite of what it has always been?

It has always been a con job.

While some of those disease are created by afluenza, we've also beaten killer plagues that killed off 5 to 10% of the population regularly.  Faced with polio, malaria, killer pneumonia's, small pox etc., they wish they had our medicine.  About 65 years ago, the presidents son stubbed his toe while playing tennis barefoot.  Without penicillin the son was dead in a few days.

 

I'd also add many of those deaths are because we're living as a whole much longer.  And the diseases were there but simply had different names.  Our food supply while processed is also refrigerated and while its not fool proof, cleanliness is checked or places go out of business, versus relying on good will which brought us scenes from the book The Jungle. 

 

We are fatter on the whole then we were 20 years ago and thats effecting quite a few hormones.  I think that's changing.   Sugary drinks are on the doing worse each year and you see this reflected in kids obesity rates are finally turning down.  The no fat paradigm is also fading and culprits of over size portions, excess carbs and processed foods is taking root.   It's not tech that's making us fat, its eating too much of the wrong things. 

Edited January 12, 2016 by thelerner

[vonkrankenhaus]

The "optomistic" idea of modern corporations is that people will be able to "upload" their "brain" to a computer inside of a machine.

 

Which means they are eliminating human beings and leaving only programmed machines in their place.

 

Mentally entranced people call this "the singularity".

 

So maybe there will be one single human left to run all the machines?

 

It's all just a fake legend in a false mythology.

 

Of false "progress".

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[vonkrankenhaus]

Re:

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"Faced with polio, malaria, killer pneumonia's, small pox etc., they wish they had our medicine."

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/20/history-of-vaccines-is-not-pretty/

 

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-medical-madoff-anesthestesiologist-faked-data/

 

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[Michael Sternbach]

Mankind is now standing at a crossroads. Spiritual traditions emphasize that most humans exist in a state of delusion, while science says that most of our brain lies dormant.

 

The question is: Will humans learn to access their true potential more fully? Or will they degenerate while more and more relying on technology coming to their aid?

 

Are we going to join our individualities in spiritual union? Or are we going to loose them in a collective Borg hive?

 

Will we be accessing the Akasa chronicles via our intuition? Or have our brains cybernetically hooked up to an omnipresent Internet?

 

Will we conquer disease and other miseries by a final understanding that the outer world reflects the inner? Or continue to aspire perfect control over outer reality by purely external means, while neglecting the internal realm more and more?

 

Will we achieve longevity and (spiritual) immortality in the way of Western and Eastern Alchemy? Or by having more and more of our body replaced by technological substitutes?

 

For every potential spiritual achievement, there seems to be a technological chimera. But this is not to say that all technology is bad. Using it with wisdom is key...

 

Will there be two types of human beings in the future? The spiritually awakened and the technologically enhanced ones?

 

Which would you choose to belong to?

[Brian]

Morlocks and Eloi, perhaps?

[vonkrankenhaus]

Yes, this is the crossroads.

 

The next couple of decades could truly determine the fate of humanity.

 

It is true that a major part of humanity is degenerating while a smaller number are lately working to reduce this trend.

 

And the part of humanity doing this is not doing it with GMO technology or vaccines or computers.

 

They are simply returning to Nature for their tools and motivations.

 

 

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus