Venting Evolution is a slow, inefficient, and fundamentally cruel process

[alfie]

Hopefully, one day, medical science advances to the point where evolution is rendered obsolete and people can simply repair and upgrade themselves. A lot of good people were needlessly discarded by the evolutionary process just because they won the Darwin award for one stupid reason or another. Minor mistakes shouldn't negate the entirety of a person's life and beneficent works, especially if they were inherently good people.

 

[Soundgarden]

I was thinking about that as well. But I guess we are already course correcting mother nature and upgrading ourselves (nice way of putting it btw :-)

It's just that our efforts are in their infancy, and manly concerned with physical malfunctions (pacemakers, in vitro fertilization, cochlear implats).

Are you familiar with Star Trek? The Borg in that series are a combination of humans and robots and they can repair themselves. How cool is that?!

I would not be surprised if that turned out to be the future of mankind.

 

[sad_frog]

I often fantasize about humanity's possible future. I dream that one day we will all be robots that do not need feelings to comprehend and learn like evolution puts us through. I think about how nice it would be to finally shed our skin and find peace between each other. I dream about the world being controlled by a super intelligent AI that makes decisions for the future based on facts and not petty emotions. When all that finally happens we will finally be the Gods we talked about around the campfire 1000s of years ago. I hope we make it.

 

[Mr2005]

Ego should have been dropped sometime during evolution. The difference that would make is monumental

 

[sad_frog]

Ego should have been dropped sometime during evolution. The difference that would make is monumental

Heheh, yeah. IMO ego probably kept us alive a long time ago.. Ego is certainly killing us now though!

 

[Jean Améry]

Nature is cruelty and mass-murder offset by mass-procreation. I can't put it better than the pessimistic genius Gary Inmendham:




He speaks the truth: simple, cold facts combined with logical thinking. The horror is indeed unimaginable. If we could comprehend it we would immidiately take steps to eradicate all life as soon and as humanely as possible. How can we witness the horror of one animal eating another alive and not do anything about it?

Imagine we could observe nature in its entirety: we would either go mad or smash the nuclear button in sheer horror at the events that unfold.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

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This is the only way to go. If we don't make it we face a bleak future, though something will rise from the ashes. Maybe bipedal dogs?