Dialogue on the Human Genome/Human Phenome versus ‘The META-Human Genome’.
Dear Reader,
My Colleague’s Statement: “A systematically experimental attitude towards solving the problems of living in nature is an inherited evolutionary asset enabling humanity to adapt to fluctuating conditions without the human organism changing at the genetic level: change at the level of culture, not change at the level of the human genome.”
“So, once the genetic predisposition to adapt via experimentation was established, in the genome, there was no further need to become anything other than human in the human-genomic sense.”
My reply: “There is, of course, the emerging possibility of the irruption of a genomically-transformed species of the ‘meta-human’, via self-re-engineering of the human genome, mediated through the [technological] ‘human phenome’, at the presently-looming stage of its historical, technological development.”
“This might involve genotypic changes to enhance longevity, and genotypic changes to render the human body better adapted to space travel, at least to travel among the potentially ‘Terraformable’ planets and moons of our Solar System.”
“Such changes might involve adding chloroplasts to the subcutaneous human lymphatic flow, turning the ‘meta-human’ skin a shade of green, and enabling “mere sunbathing” to infuse the ‘meta-human’ body with carbohydrates, etc., and with micronutrients that, today, only plants make, and that humans must take in pill, etc., form, externally, and that promote greater “healthspan” for genomic humans, also allowing “mere sunbathing” to generate some supplemental Oxygen, otherwise inhaled from ‘externity’, and to absorb some respiratory-metabolism-produced Carbon Dioxide, otherwise unused and exhaled to ‘externity’.”
“If these engineered “mutations” in the human genome, in the formation of the ‘meta-human’ genome, were merely to extend healthy lifespan, the demand for human to ‘meta-human’ conversions among many genomic humans would likely induce the most price-inelastic demand in economic history.”
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Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
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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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