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Using all of your brain cells
libfemme ( 01/05/2005, 21:34:07 )"one species exists, another comes and incidentally is a better model than the last."Ok you hit one of my hot buttons. Evolution is not about progress. It is about change. Change is not necessarily progress.The most prevalent organisms on the planet are bacteria. They are the most primative life form and very, very successful. Nature has never seen fit to improve upon them. They change their behavior and response as the environment changes but they don't get any smarter. They adapt to their environment and when their environment changes those that can live in the new environment survive. That is evolution, but not progress. However you are correct that humans seem to be the most intellectual species on this planet and they, like everything else, are the result of evolution. They are smarter than chimpanzees or gorillas and yes I would call that an improvement. However I hate to break it to you but both of them have frontal lobes too.And while I'm willing to take your word for it that you use only 12% of your brain. I however use 100% of mine.According to the New England Journal of Medicine the statement that we use only "x"% of our brain is an urban myth. There is no scientific basis for the statement. See link below.However, I do agree with you that we have reached a time when humans will take control of their genetics and hence the path of evolution will be affected. When we can design our own genes increasing our intelligence is certain to be at the top of the list. But don't expect it to make us more peacelike.In nature the predator is the smarter species and the prey the dumber one. Look at the tiger and the lamb. T Rex and the allosaurus. Intelligence is another weapon of the predator.It takes cunning to deceive, to steal, to kill. It was becoming a meat eating species, as opposed to the fruit eating chimps, that drove our evolution to smarter and smarter brains. We used it to scavenge. In other words we stole meat from the primarily predator who killed it.People today will want to become smarter in order to be competitive with other people who are trying to get smarter, in business, in politics, in social relationships. I don't see peacefulness becoming a foregone consequence of our improvement in intelligence. Now, it may be likely that war will become fought more and more by proxies, by smart machines that become an extention of the professional soldier. There may be fewer battlefield casualties. But aggression itself is not likely to end.Telekinesis? Moving things by thinking about them? We can do that now. People with missing limbs are being connected to computers that move artifical limbs. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3600611.stmESP? I don't know what that is. Being intuitive? I think that comes with being more perceptive. I think that is likely to happen in the future.Which is not to suggest that I do not welcome you to our forum. I do. JC particularly is going to like to talk to you. I am just a gadfly. Nice to meet you.
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