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Droz
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Just a thought on evolution.
#19275240 - 12/14/13 03:38 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Considering when our species was known as homo erectus, some 1.9 million years ago, with half the size brains are we homo sapiens have now. Can we speculate that in the next half million to a full million years, that our brains will change as well. Our whole species could be different. Bigger brains? Yah or nah? Those alive now and in many next generations will never know. So I guess we wait a million years to find out. Maybe by then we'd have technology to enhance our brains. What do you think about that? What if we become cyborgs? Those who don't go to brain computerization, may be the only ones that will experience this shift in brain evolution.
What is your opinion on turning our brains into computers, and the fact that we'd be evolving by our own creation instead of the natural set of rules?
-Droz
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Icyus
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Droz]
#19275248 - 12/14/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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In a million years.. I do not think we will still have a physical form.. but rather be strange things searching to help the animals back on earth become wiser..
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Droz]
#19275282 - 12/14/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Long gone, long forgotten.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Icelander]
#19275299 - 12/14/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'd say we would evolve to this like Dr Manhattan(watchmen) way of being like how hes seen shit happen that is so small and so quick that we as humans now believe that its like not possible
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Droz
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Icelander]
#19275300 - 12/14/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Speculate on what the future will be like with me..
Will we grow test tube babies? Cure all diseases?
I think we will live digitally, like straight outta an anime like Ghost In The Shell.
So many possibilities.
-Droz
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Droz] 3
#19275311 - 12/14/13 04:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Long gone, long forgotten.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Icelander]
#19275397 - 12/14/13 04:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Icelander I know that it won't mean anything to us.
But I think we will see digitalization soon.
When you die, we are going to take a blood sample of your DNA, and clone you! Luck you right!
Icelander(Jurassic) Park!
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SneezingPenis
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Droz]
#19275472 - 12/14/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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raymond kurzweil believe that the next 30 years will bring about the equivalent of 100 years of progress, which would put us well on our way having nanotechnology pervading every aspect of our lives.
he goes as far to say that in 100 years we will see a new epoch where the line between biological and technological is non-existent
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I am surprised that kellogs is closing it's plants, what's next? - the end of pepsi?
who knows what changes will happen? I am mesmerized by snow drifts maybe the wind will become the winternet and fight back against all this nonsense. special K for everyone!
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Droz]
#19276081 - 12/14/13 07:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Here's a better idea for a thread: How will the human race become extinct?
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SneezingPenis
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superaids...
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Google just bought its 8th robotic company... the age of the terminators is upon us
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Hobozen]
#19276509 - 12/14/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I read a paper some years ago saying that brains are shrinking in size while becoming denser at the same time. So we're getting more efficient - less size, more intelligence - kind of like processors but at a slower rate.
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Deckard_Cain]
#19277223 - 12/15/13 12:13 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I watched a show recently that said our diet began to include saturated fat (from animals) during our evolutionary process. The saturated fat caused our brains to grow significantly.
It also pointed out that human breast milk is (the?) one of the highest sources of saturated fat.
So... I guess it could depend on our diet.
It is interesting to note that I read somewhere else that the average Australian Aborigine (40,000 years ago) could have out paced Usain Bolt.
I think somewhere... Our evolution stalled. Maybe we can blame modern medicine?
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It might be too soon to pinpoint causes of change in the ongiong process of evolution given the time line of millions of years...
But the air we breathe today isn't the same air we were breathing a million years ago.
Who's to bet the industrial revolution has fucked us right in our evolutionary development 
It's also probably going to be the point of origin on the time line of our species that leads to us blowing ourselves up or poisoning the entire planet.
Industrial revolution = The dawn of environmental and self destructive fuck ups
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SneezingPenis
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yeah, and there is more gold dissolved in the ocean than is in all the banks in the world.
the earth has a way of stabilizing itself.
Quote:
The senators, including his friend Brutus ("Et tu?"), conspired, invited him to the Senate, gathered round and stabbed him over and over. Caesar, mortally wounded, exhaled and died.
And it's not like Caesar hadn't been warned. Soothsayers had told him to "Beware the Ides Of March" — "ides" meaning the middle of the month. But he paid no heed.
That's what most people know.
The Chemistry Angle
Here's what chemistry students know: For some reason, Caesar's dying breath, his last exhalation, has become a classic teaching tool in high school and college. When Caesar exhaled, he released an enormous number of "breath" molecules, mostly nitrogen and carbon dioxide. It's a very, very big number says Dan Nocera, chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). By Nocera's calculation: .05 x 6 x 10 to the 23rd.
"10 to the 23rd" all by itself looks ridiculously large. It's 10 followed by 22 zeros:
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Over the years, a number of scholars have tried to figure out what typically would happen to all those molecules. They figured some were absorbed by plants, some by animals, some by water — and a large portion would float free and spread themselves all around the globe in a pattern so predictable that (this is the fun part) if you take a deep breath right now, at least one of the molecules entering your lungs literally came from Caesar's last breath.
That's what they say.
If you look around the Internet, you will find professors who say we take in three of Caesar's molecules per breath, or eight, or 10. It all depends on your assumptions about the size of a breath, the size of the atmosphere, the location of the breather (on a mountain, or at sea level?)
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We're now inevitably fucking the future of our species with every breath.
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Icyus
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I share the idea of Terrence McKenna.. our brains are big because of mushrooms.
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Re: Just a thought on evolution. [Re: Icyus]
#19277806 - 12/15/13 05:18 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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if we took evolution into our own hands..what would that say about Darwinism?
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Icelander
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It's really not your problem as long as you don't have kids.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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