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One of the greatest forces behind human evolution has been cowardice.
Our prehistoric ancestors saw themselves as a hopeless, physically weak species without great evolutionary advantages.
Then, along with the rise of culture, language and human consciousness, they found a way to overcome obstacles in the natural environment without exposing themselves fully, through technology, that is, in a cowardly way.
Another convergent ''invention'' resulting from human cowardice was religion, a very conservative and therefore convenient way of interpreting and dealing with the emerging perception of a mysterious world much larger than the immediate-adaptation environment itself.
If before the evolutionary development of its self-consciousness, the human being, like any other species, perceived the/its world in a significantly autocentric way.
Religion is basically the survival of this pre-self-conscious relic.
Transhumanism, like technological evolution, is just a continuation of this same impetus, to flee as much as possible from perceiving or understanding or dealing with reality.
The human path has been that of ''indirectness''.
As fragile primates in the middle of a jungle, it was very useful. But, since a long time ago, what was security has turned into a prison.
One of the greatest forces behind human evolution has been cowardice.
ReplyDeleteOur prehistoric ancestors saw themselves as a hopeless, physically weak species without great evolutionary advantages.
Then, along with the rise of culture, language and human consciousness, they found a way to overcome obstacles in the natural environment without exposing themselves fully, through technology, that is, in a cowardly way.
Another convergent ''invention'' resulting from human cowardice was religion, a very conservative and therefore convenient way of interpreting and dealing with the emerging perception of a mysterious world much larger than the immediate-adaptation environment itself.
If before the evolutionary development of its self-consciousness, the human being, like any other species, perceived the/its world in a significantly autocentric way.
Religion is basically the survival of this pre-self-conscious relic.
Transhumanism, like technological evolution, is just a continuation of this same impetus, to flee as much as possible from perceiving or understanding or dealing with reality.
The human path has been that of ''indirectness''.
As fragile primates in the middle of a jungle, it was very useful.
But, since a long time ago, what was security has turned into a prison.