What is evolution to the dominant species on planet earth? How will humankind reconcile a failed stewardship of the environment? What alternative to extra-planetary escape will we as a species utilize to survive on earth when our technology fails to devise a viable escape plan deployable to all? When environmental abuse results in an earth that is intolerable and nonsustaining, where is shelter?
The answer may require our technology to take rein of evolution to redirect us to a cybernetic digital existence. The paradigm that realizes how to harness bio-circuitry, the mechanics of the human brain, will allow a strategy to evolve digitally. Moore's law of micro-circuitry is near the limits of material science but can resume it's pace when bio-circuitry replaces silicon. Physical death may cease when we can download ourselves into a digital lifeboat. When we become cyber-conscious we will choose our physical state transcending the limits of flesh and blood able to utilize either. That is if the planet can then sustain biological life.
As cyber-creatures life experience will be one of all possibility including immortality. Transcendence of space and perhaps time will allow safe exploration of the most hostile environ in the solar system and beyond. Terra-formation of another planet like Mars will be a reasonable possibility.
Perhaps then we can have a place from which we can try to repair the damage we have done to our home.
Perhaps then we can have a place from which we can try to repair the damage we have done to our home.
I hear echoes of fear and shouts of blasphemy to dare contemplate such an existence. It is the same mindset that imprisoned Galileo and threatened so many who explored the boundary of thought in their day when an all powerful theology held an iron hand grip on free will and thought. God created man, man created religion. I choose a world where spiritually is possible and free from the indoctrinations, motivations and fear imposed on us all by most organized religion leaving open to what theology exists that is dedicated to the spirit alone if such a thing can exist. That is to say while I hold dear what is espoused that frames our morality, I see and reject that which seeks to enslave mind and or body.
Theology will find universal understanding when pure conscience is the norm of existence. The world of John Lennon's "Imagine" will allow all strife to cease if only our morality can keep pace...Imagine...I think, therefore I am.
C. Gallagher 04 Feb 2011 - Lodi, CA.
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'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.
H.G. Wells
