The Meaning
of “SELF”
in the phrase
‘Human-Genomic
SELF-re-
Engineering’.
Part 1. of the
Series on
META-Humanity’.
Seldon –
“Our phrase, naming what we
predict will be the «arché»-category
of ‘the dialectic of meta-humanity’, is:
‘The Self-Re-Engineering of the Human Genome’.”
“But why ‘SELF’-Re-Engineering?”
“What is the meaning of the prescript
epithet “Self” in the context of our predicted ‘Re-Engineering of
the Human Genome’?”
“Well, we mean,
quite literally, albeit paradoxically, that the ‘‘‘re-engineering’’’ that we
expect will be ‘‘‘caused’’’ by ‘‘‘action’’’ of the human genome itself.”
“But how can this possibly be
so?”
“We mean that
the human genome, formed in the Darwinian process, and, in its action, mediated
through the ‘human phenome’ of the developing cultural, including
technological, capabilities of genomic humanity, also made possible by the learning
capabilities born in the human genome, i.e., which that genome “created”,
or made likely, is, albeit, yes, ‘mediatedly’, re-engineering
itself.”
“That genome, as an unconscious
agency, but a causal agent nonetheless, is
re-engineering itself, through the needs and desires that the Darwinian process
built into humanity, with humanity predicted to act to rid itself of its ‘Darwinian
Defects’.”
“In that same process, that special
Darwinian genome has made possible a ‘Meta-Darwinian, trans-genomic Process’,
now that practical knowledge [‘sapience’] has become so crucial to expanded
human-social reproduction, and thus to the Darwinian fitness, or sustained reproduction-rate,
of the genomic human species.”
“This self-re-engineering of
the human genome is now on the verge of advancing to the ‘Meta-Darwinian Super-Fitness’ of all three ‘irruptant’ species of a ‘Meta-Humanity’ – namely, ‘reengineered-genome
meta-humans’, ‘AI android robot meta-humans’, and their dialectical-categorial
synthesis, ‘AI cyborg meta-humans’ – spreading its burgeoning population(s) into
our Solar System, and beyond.”
“The ‘Darwinian Defects’ of the
genomic human species, per our ‘immanent critique of the human
body’, include the fact that the Darwinian-genomic protections of individual
human health and longevity largely expire after the average age of
offspring – the average age of human biological reproduction – which is the age
by which the parents’ genes, carrying all of their ‘Darwinian Defects’, have
passed on into the human gene pool, sustainedly-so if their offspring survive to themselves reproduce.”
“The male parent could die
the day after conception; the female parent could die the moment after giving live
birth, and their ‘Darwinianly-Defective’ genes would have already passed into
the next human-genomic generation, leaving those health and longevity
protections unadvanced; still expiring so early. Some partial reprieve from
this fate is induced by the enhanced likelihood of offspring survival, prosperity,
and reproductive fecundity, if their grandparents survive at least into
the early years of life of those offspring.”
“The human genome is not
a conscious, volitional eventity, but it is a causal
eventity. As such, it exhibits agency,
as a ‘pre-[human-]subject’, or ‘proto-subject’: not
will-enabled agency, but causal agency nonetheless.”
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information regarding these
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¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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