Could technology hinder evolution?
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No it will not harm our evolution.
What does harm it is defying Darwin's theory of natural selection. We allow the losers in this world live for no work and multiply.
Survival of the fittest is becoming survival of the retards.
What does harm it is defying Darwin's theory of natural selection. We allow the losers in this world live for no work and multiply.
Survival of the fittest is becoming survival of the retards.
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Levels of obesity can probably be hugely attributed to the level of refined carbs in most peoples diets, it doesn't help that the health care professionals recommend us eating diets that have carbs as the majority of our nutrients either.
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That would be suggesting that evolution has some goals that it is working towards.
What is the goal of evolution anyway? Surely it's simply to keep surviving and evolving. That means leaving this planet one day by using technology.
What would happen if we used eugenics to breed a super smart race, who figured out all the rules of physics and the universe to the point they could create new universes? What then?
Or what if we downloaded our minds in to indestructible, indefinitely powered space-robots and essentially became our own sentient nano-planets zipping through space? We wouldn't need food or reproduction or anything at all. Would we have "won" evolution?
What's the point though??
What would happen if we used eugenics to breed a super smart race, who figured out all the rules of physics and the universe to the point they could create new universes? What then?
Or what if we downloaded our minds in to indestructible, indefinitely powered space-robots and essentially became our own sentient nano-planets zipping through space? We wouldn't need food or reproduction or anything at all. Would we have "won" evolution?
What's the point though??
I think the core of evolution is actually adapting to environments. Our ancestors conquered the ocean and crawled on to land to become apes, then conquered the jungle and spread out to the plains and mountains which we conquered as men. We've pretty much conquered the earth, so the next step is obviously space. But the real question is what happens after we conquer space (and quantum physics)?
Do we become gods? What does god have left to conquer? Why even continue living if you have nothing to struggle against? All you would have left is to indulge your basic animal instincts like the simple creatures we came from in the beginning.
Do we become gods? What does god have left to conquer? Why even continue living if you have nothing to struggle against? All you would have left is to indulge your basic animal instincts like the simple creatures we came from in the beginning.
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Medicine hinders deaty, thus hinders extension of what would have been once weak.
Weirdly benefits do more, they breed an evolved form of chavs which would have starved a hundred years ago, now they get paid to be chavs, and technology takes no part is us giving them free money.
Weirdly benefits do more, they breed an evolved form of chavs which would have starved a hundred years ago, now they get paid to be chavs, and technology takes no part is us giving them free money.
Depends in what way we evolve.
Physically, yes, we're unlikely to sprout wings or possess mega-strength due to our very temperate, habitable climate. We don't need to fly as we have aeroplanes. We don't need to run fast because we have cars. But really we don't need any of those things as we don't have any natural predators - so there's no need to develop these things. Instead, we become very average physically (compared to other animals/beasts which require these things to survive/dominate below them) but our minds become stronger.
Physically, yes, we're unlikely to sprout wings or possess mega-strength due to our very temperate, habitable climate. We don't need to fly as we have aeroplanes. We don't need to run fast because we have cars. But really we don't need any of those things as we don't have any natural predators - so there's no need to develop these things. Instead, we become very average physically (compared to other animals/beasts which require these things to survive/dominate below them) but our minds become stronger.
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That was my first thought on this.
Immunity may be better than relying on medicine but you appear to be assuming that there's some sort of (discernable) direction to evolution and that's not necessarily the case.
As a point we, as humans, may never have evolved the capacity for flight regardless of advances in technology - what advantage would it confer to us in terms of better adapting humans to their environment. That's not to say that random mutation couldn't have led to some people being closer to flying than others but there's little to no evolutionary pressure to advance the case for it.