Thursday, August 25, 2011

JASON SILVA - EVOLUTION MADE SELF-AWARE

This is interesting. The idea that we are close to reaching the point when we will be able to "design" life is both exciting (in terms of how we can possibly end human disease and create more nutritious forms of food, from low-fat meat higher in good fats to plants that produce higher yields) and frightening (in terms of how humans are highly fallible and likely to misuse this knowledge).

In the bigger picture, this is a different kind of "evolution make self-aware" than Ken Wilber likes to talk about in his anthropocentric spirituality. In thinking about the possible negative outcomes, Wilber's version is less frightening.

EVOLUTION MADE SELF-AWARE



Jason Silva is a Fellow of the Hybrid Reality Institute.

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