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Humanity may very well survive. You may not.
by Aloha 9y ago
Humanity may very well survive.
You may not.
- quickthrower2 9y agoHumanity is a temporary situation. We're going extinct or going to evolve into something else eventually.
- tasty_freeze 9y agoQ: "What do you want on your pizza?" A: "I don't care; eventually I'll be dead anyway" While a true statement, it minimizes the real implications of a valid question.
- quickthrower2 9y agoI take your point. Yummy pizza definitely snaps me out of existentialism.
- rukittenme 9y agoNot to pick on you but this is a common misconception of evolution. You don't outgrow your ancestry. You are and your descendants always will be human. Just as they will always be primates and mammals and animals.
- Aloha 9y agoBased on how evolution has gone over hundreds of thousands of years - I cant say I agree with you - but mostly in the concept of human-centric-time - yeah, I'd agree with you - no substantive change happens over 10 generations, but over 10,000 generations? yes. Look at dogs, they evolved from wolves, and while both are still canids, we'd for sure call a dog, not a wolf.
- rukittenme 9y agoNo. Dogs did not evolve from modern wolves. They evolved from a common ancestor of both dogs and wolves. If we call that common ancestor "wolves" as we call the modern wolf it is the fault of language not of cladistics.
- quickthrower2 9y agoThat's just due to human categorization and labelling of things, but isn't an absolute truth. My feeling is if we evolve into something with just a brain and no body (with the help of technology perhaps) then that is something else. But you can also argue it is still human if that species has the same emotions. But maybe it wont.