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ANNOTATION:
18. How integration may occur
How can the collective cybernetic integration of the human species be considered inevitable if we are to survive? Self-conciousness and self-determination does in no way imply that we should impose alterations upon what nature has developed. To believe that we can improve upon a system that has operated flawlessly for periods of time that are nearly infinite (as perceived by humanity in general) appears to be the arrogant presumption of a desperate species. Nature's methods are constantly making miniscule adaptations, as surely as all life on Earth is constantly evolving. Does our soul mean that we DESERVE to survive infinitely? We, as all others, will ascend or decline according to evolution's design. If there is still humantity here 500,000 years from now, they will not be homo sapiens, regardless of how how they choose to designate their species. They will as far removed from us as a chimpanzee from an existing human. That is not immortality. The crocodile in the river does not constitute an example of a dinosaur, irregardless of their genetic similarity. Gorillas today are 98 uman genetically. What will another 2 eviation produce? Not homo sapiens, and not immortality. Science cannot save us, even if we achieve a genetic evolutionary stasis that we can impose upon ourselves. That would only create a stagnant genetic pool, and stagnation produces nothing save decay. In addition, we are constantly poisoning our genetic makeup by reproducing with others possessing inferior or malfunctioning genes. All other specie avoid mating with damaged gene bearing specie. We do not. Evolution has removed our ability to instinctually recognize this, and our much lauded self-conciousness has enabled us to assign priority to other interests than genetic health when choosing a mate. This is already having disasterous effects, which indicated by the continual increase in instances of genetically inherited disease. All our technology has done is enabled us to save lives that nature intended to die because of genetic deficiencies or aberrations, therefore causing the slow poisoning of the entire species' genetic identity. Nature cannot save us, because it moves much more slowly than we destroy. Chaos and order are forever interdepentant upon each other and simultaneously at odds. If some space originated catastrophe fails to cause our exinction, we will surely do it ourselves. Pardon me for following a wild tangent there, but my point is simply this. We are not inevitable. We simply ARE.
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