/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2833276
It is the birthright of the species to transcend itself.

>>2673735
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
If he forces us on the path, that screws up our development. We are, after all, a species of infant Gods ourselves. We must determine the path for ourselves, if the Earth-foetus is to go to term as it should.

The most shocking of Klomp’s predictions, however, is that we apes will have little or no place in the post-simian world.

“As technological progress outpaces biology, new selective pressures will arise that will force our species to evolve mentally and physically beyond what we are now. This is the same trend that gave rise to our own intelligent species, but it will only accelerate in the coming generations. Our new environment increasingly favors higher dexterity and intelligence, and so the true post-simian will not be an ape at all. It will share some similarities with the modern ape, but at the same time possess capacities far beyond our comprehension. The thought capacity of a single post-simian could be greater than the combined brains of every ape in the world.”

More intelligent than an ape? Klomp fails to explain just what a post-ape can think of that we mere mortals cannot. The capacity of the simian mind is already far beyond any animal in the world: We are capable of using speech to let others know where we are, where to sleep and eat, and where to find shelter when it rains. Exactly how fast do we need our brains to be to figure these things out? When will we decide that enough is enough?