Re: from jms: research help

On Jun 22, 8:45 am, Josh Hill <userepl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:05:51 GMT, Baff <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<8108c01e-647a-4c60-bb1e-9230efce0...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Christina Wilson <fmlyh...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do humans still have their little fingers?

given the steady increase in autism and the like, how smart are we?
are there any 'free thinkers' left or do we all master our 'goes-
intta' in-utero.
is it possible the next big evolutionary jump cognitively has already
begun?


Also, what about life extension and immortality? The beginnings of the
former are right around the corner, and it's hard to see how the
latter could be more than a few hundred years away. Immortality would
effectively end human evolution, unless we found a way to evolve
without dying. Interesting premise for science fiction, isn't that . .

Simack has some fun with this idea in "why call them back from
heaven."
which i liked a lot. he explores the impracticallity (to my mind) of
immortality
outside the context of an 'afterlife.'

.. And of course there's the premise, beloved of science fiction
writers, that we unimproved humans will coexist with and be
manipulated by more evolved versions of ourselves, and everyone by
thinking machines. That would be in line with the usual progression of
evolution, in which later-to-evolve and usually more complex species
co-exist with earlier ones rather than supplanting them.

yawn. i'm thinking JMS can do better then that.

lg

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