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>As a species, we're approaching the time where we've obviated evolution. This is hubris. Everything that humanity may accomplish in the future, from editing i
by youareostriches 6y ago
>As a species, we're approaching the time where we've obviated evolution.
This is hubris. Everything that humanity may accomplish in the future, from editing its own genome to creating general artificial intelligence, is a product of that same evolutionary process. We do all that out of our innate need for self preservation and reproduction—evolutionary imperatives for all organisms.
But it’s more accurate to think of evolution as a universal computational process occurring within the substrate of (bio)chemistry. That computation will yield further computation (intelligence and its products).
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThis way you can define evolution to mean absolutely anything, at which point the word loses its meaning. If we stick to traditional, useful definition of biological evolution, then we can confidently say that it stopped being the driving force for plant and animal life no later than when we've first learned to communicate and remember ideas; we've made it irrelevant when we've learned to write. It still works on microscale, but that's mostly because things breed and die faster at that scale, there's more of it, and we can't efficiently poke at it with any sort of precision.
- antepodius 6y agoEh, you could argue evolution is still relevant in human populations up till today.