- And you're still confident in the technological salvation/ ascension of the species?
The 21st century is the physical manifestation of the ancient concepts of apocalypse/transcendence. I'm an optimist (I think with good reason), but not a determinist.
- Is there going to be a point where the womb of humanity will be too poisonous/damaged to give birth to the next phase of intelligent life?
It is in the ruptures, in the dramatic/traumatic discontinuities when life really breaks into something new. That is the only way life breaks into something new. True at the individual and the collective level. Punctuated equilibrium OR: oh shit we have to change.
- Or will the phoenix come rising out of the ashes of society as we know it?
I still think the end of the human universe is the symbiotic synthesis of transhumanity. I don't think that entity will have trouble stabilising planetary socio-economy/ecology.
- transhumanity
Even though I do not share much of your optimism, I do enjoy imagining the forms that transhumanity could take. It is of course futile speculation, but a good brain exercise.
Thanks for stopping by this thread, always like to hear your take on things.
- Even though I do not share much of your optimism, I do enjoy imagining the forms that transhumanity could take. It is of course futile speculation, but a good brain exercise.
I think our future possibility space is much higher than people tend to assume... :D