We as humanity have stopped evolving physicaly, but does that mean we cannot evolve? The theory is to imagine the human race 1000 years into the future. Will we be dead? Will the earth be destroyed? Will we have time travel? These questions arise out of curiousity but the answer seems to be not so clear. Is humanity going to reach the "singularity" or a point where technology and humans evolve together? we can create life and robotics so why not merge them together? This could even be in the form of nano bots that could self replicate and keep us alive swimming through the blood stream. Humans create robots, robots kill humans, then create androids as the next step in evolution. Even with genetic modification could we not create the "super-human" and live for hundreds of years? Why not just maintain what we already have then constantly repopulating. The problems with moving forward in technology is that everyone is so disconnected with eachother with the non stop greed of making money. Dont get me wrong diversity is a good thing and essential to our world (mainly for disease control where some living organisms may be completely immune). Half the problem with this idea is religon and morals. One has to have a strong moral foundation which religion teaches you about good and evil etc. How would one know what was good if one had never done good or experienced good things? and the reverse could be said for evil, but one must have experienced both to have an understanding of the other. How can you truely be happy if you have never experienced sorrow? We as humanity need to stand together to move forward rather than be divided. Plenty of good minds walk this earth and create the foundation to actualy move forward physicaly and spiritualy. Just like science and math there has to be a foundation of truths to build off of. For example we first know that mass creates gravity, and gravity creates time. We are all together in this rollercoaster we call life flying through space on a chunk of rock going millions if miles an hour.

I'm quite happy for AI to replace us and continue the quest for knowledge
Every human dies at some point, i don't see the problem with making all new born's sterile to kill us off by the end of that generation and let the ai take over

No matter how much you can enhance humans AI will always have massive advantages, unlimited/extended memory, shared experiences/thoughts/hive mind, can be modified/improved very easily after being build, doesn't have to be contained within a single unit, doesn't die.

Until we can digitize all thought/memories and transfer them to a psychical medium, this will limit a lot of ai's advantages
Although we seem to be able to convert memories into data and share them between people already according to 'Through the Wormhole' at least

Careful, you'll trigger the flat-earthers

One group is building working quantum computers, the other is arguing with the first group about the shape of the object we're standing on despite the fact that it's been known for centuries and seen for decades. It's a hard decision who to trust isn't it.

Unless we get hit by another, smaller rock and yellow stone doesnt erupt in the near future we ll be fine for thousands of years to come.

We will never have time travel in our own "reality" unless reality itself is just a piece of digital coding.

We could maybe develop a way to travel to other universes (parallel universes) but they wont be related to our own i would guess and so it wont technically be time travel but more like a regular travel

There r already ongoing researches on nano bots to assist in fighting cancer and for example depositing "medicine" within the body at the exact locations where it is affected. Kind of like a medicine delivery service which is more efficient than what we have today.

Some humans cant contribute to the moving forward part.
Others r not interested as they dont want to waste their limited time on earth with it.
Third just realise that no matter what they do we r ultimately so far behind in the realisation of what is going on that they r better of not worrying about it and rather enjoy life as we know it.
Fourth r tryhards who spent their entire life focusing on a specific theory which may or may not prove right. Either way humanity would still exist without that contribution or if that specific person didnt discover it, there would have surely been someone else who would have.

At the end of the day we r all unsignificant to the bigger picture based on our short life spam which only helps us enjoy life more as it makes it appear more valuable.

Stopped reading before finishing the first line. Tbh i believe you dont undertand how evolution works

Prove that evolution can only go up?

it always goes up.

evolution is natural selection of mutations that are useful to the organism that exhibits them. if the mutations r beneficial to the organism, it is more likely to survive therefore more likely to pass them on to the next generation. if the mutations r not beneficial or harmful, the organism will die or not be affected at all. in either case, the organism is likely to retain only the beneficial mutations and therefore evolve positively over time.

just because humans have compassion and r likely to help ppl with disabilities doesnt mean that overall humanity is going downhill on the evolution scale because ppl who would have normally died out of natural causes in their early life, r now able to live much longer.

the overall population is comprised of healthy individuals who r in no way less capable of surviving than humans from thousands of years ago. their environment is the only cause of them being less capable since the majority of ppl r spoiled from early age but if they were not exposed to such environment and rather to a much harsher one they would be able to survive just fine and so genetically they r at least equally as capable as their counterparts from thousands of years ago. even if u consider that thousands of years ago ppl had tougher bodies in the sense that they could withstand much harsher conditions nowadays ppl can easily compensate for that with much greater general knowledge of survival techniques and having advanced equipment at their disposal.

Life expectancy is going down - enjoy your Zika babies - yaaaa evolution!

life expectancy in the WHOLE world? ;p where did u hear that, youtube?

what a dummy

not to mention that life expectancy nowadays has more to do with the environment rather than ur own organism...

i dont expect u to have the ability to fully analyze a problem though ;p after all u r pretty close minded

This post was edited by luckspin on Sep 24 2016 01:05pm