Stephen Hawking on the Advent of ‘the Meta-Human’, I. --
‘Human-Genomic Self-Re-Engineering’.
Dear Reader,
We have predicted, as the ‘neo-ontology’ of the next epoch of cosmological ‘meta-evolution’ -- at least locally, in our solar system -- an ‘ontologically-dynamical, neo-ontological meta-finite singularity’ that we call ‘the irruption of the meta-human’ -- the advent of a new «genos» of three new «species» of cosmological ontology that we call ‘meta-humanity’ --
We hold that none of the three, dialectically-interrelated
«species» of this new «genos» of ‘meta-humanity’ that we have predicted is as yet extant in the contemporary Terran ecosphere of [mere] humanity.
We also hold that ‘protoic preformations’ of each of these three «species» are already extant in our times, largely, though
not completely, unnoticed as such by most of our contemporaries.
Given this background, it is interesting to read the
thoughts of the late physicist, Stephen Hawking, on the systematically first of these three «species,
that of ‘human-genomic self-re-engineering,
mediated via the human phenome’, in his posthumously published, 2018
book Brief Answers to the Big Questions [Bantam Books,
NY].
[pp. 160-161]: “... now we are at the beginning of
a new era in which we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA
without having to wait for the [F.E.D.:
relatively] slow process of biological evolution.”
“There has been relatively little change in human DNA in the
last 10,000 years. But it is likely that
we will be able to redesign it completely in the next thousand.”
“Of course, many people will say that genetic engineering on
humans should be banned. But I rather
doubt that they will be able to prevent it.
Genetic engineering on plants and animals will be allowed for economic
reasons, and someone is bound to try it on humans. Unless we have a totalitarian world order,
someone will design improved humans somewhere.”
“Clearly, developing improved humans will create great
social and political problems with respect to the unimproved humans. I’m not advocating human genetic engineering
as a good thing, I’m just saying that it is likely to happen in the next
millennium, whether we want it or not.”
“This is why I don’t believe science fiction like Star
Trek, where people are essentially the same 350 years in the future.”
“I think the human race, and its DNA, will increase its
complexity quite rapidly.”
“In a way, the human race needs to improve its mental and
physical qualities if it is to deal with the increasingly complex world around
it and meet new challenges like space travel.”
“And it also needs to increase its complexity if biological
systems are to keep ahead of electronic ones. ...”
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of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is
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Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica
[F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D.
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