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Technically, wouldn't it be a strange thing for a Human (or any species) to help perpetuate DNA within their own species that is not their own? I can see raisi

by ap22213 12y ago

Technically, wouldn't it be a strange thing for a Human (or any species) to help perpetuate DNA within their own species that is not their own? I can see raising a child that is not one's own - because it's enjoyable and fulfilling to have a child. But, wouldn't the creation of 'Super-Anything' Humans be one step closer to the Human hive mind?

ibisum 12y ago
I think we don't acknowledge just how much of the Human Hive Mind we already have. I mean, there are individual humans: and then there is humanity. In between, many, many hives and collectives and corporations and aggregates, and so on. This, I believe, points to a 'higher, greater good' which is the species itself. So to answer your question, no: its not strange at all to be perpetuating human DNA in spite of ownership. Its the species which owns you, not the other way around. None of us exist without others.
- ap22213 12y ago
  If that's the case, wouldn't it also be useful to genetically engineer 'drone' Humans who happily do all of the hard work?
  - ibisum 12y ago
    Indeed, that is what has been being done now, by humans, for tens of thousands of years.
kghose 12y ago
This is an interesting question. We have evolved, but evolution is so slow that we do not notice that our children are actually inching away from us genetically (hopefully for the "better"). However, if we inject large artificial changes, what will happen? Will we reject our children? For a certain period in development, children reject their parents, naturally. But then we often come back (often when we are parents ourselves). But, if our children have large genetic changes from us, artificially done, how will our children look upon us? As pets, perhaps? Or mere caretakers? An interesting (and scary) thing too, is whether higher intelligence - as measured by these metrics - leads to "colder" humans, who make more rational decisions, such as euthanizing the old and weak, which would then include the parents.

by ap22213 12y ago

ibisum 12y ago

I think we don't acknowledge just how much of the Human Hive Mind we already have. I mean, there are individual humans: and then there is humanity. In between, many, many hives and collectives and corporations and aggregates, and so on. This, I believe, points to a 'higher, greater good' which is the species itself. So to answer your question, no: its not strange at all to be perpetuating human DNA in spite of ownership. Its the species which owns you, not the other way around. None of us exist without others.

ap22213 12y ago
If that's the case, wouldn't it also be useful to genetically engineer 'drone' Humans who happily do all of the hard work?
- ibisum 12y ago
  Indeed, that is what has been being done now, by humans, for tens of thousands of years.

kghose 12y ago

This is an interesting question. We have evolved, but evolution is so slow that we do not notice that our children are actually inching away from us genetically (hopefully for the "better"). However, if we inject large artificial changes, what will happen? Will we reject our children? For a certain period in development, children reject their parents, naturally. But then we often come back (often when we are parents ourselves). But, if our children have large genetic changes from us, artificially done, how will our children look upon us? As pets, perhaps? Or mere caretakers? An interesting (and scary) thing too, is whether higher intelligence - as measured by these metrics - leads to "colder" humans, who make more rational decisions, such as euthanizing the old and weak, which would then include the parents.