What is the human race end game?

Angilion said:
Or are we? It's the ship of Theseus again - if you replace every part of something bit by bit over time, is it still the same thing? We wouldn't be homo sapiens, but would we still be human?
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All our cells in our body are replaced every so often. We simply retain the same memories. It's like how the star trek transporter works. Kills you and makes a copy.

So when you die there are loads of other versions of you out there. Exactly the same but in another place. Are you dead?
 
There is no end game, it's just a race between humans discovering a way to reach other star systems in a safe"ish" way vs the sun burning itself out and ending all life in the solar system or an extinction level event the scale which wiped out the dinosaurs

We're already doing well though, compared to the dinosaurs 165million year existence, we've already achieved quite a lot (unless there's some evolved dino's who managed to build spaceships and leave Earth, obviously we wouldn't find their fossils because they left Earth and didn't bother returning)
 
Humans haven't been around all that long. If we don't kill ourselves in the near future, we should be good to edit our own firmware (DNA) and the concept of a human is rendered meaningless. Some scientists think that alien life could be hanging out near red dwarf stars, as those things are slow burn and can last trillions of years. But some form of ourselves might exist until the heat death of the universe.
 
Tefal said:
Literally the only species with a sense of altruism.
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Which in many people is completely suppressed either beyond our own species or even just our own family.

Collectively, our altruism isn't much on display, as we ravage our home and kill off most of the other forms of life on it.
 
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