Peter:
Time to come off the fence. I agree. To my mind the rich diversity in
individuals at a biological level brought about by the mixing of genes
is a vital component in continuing human evolution.
Glove:
I have been pondering your question and I am unsure that any social
evolution, as we know it, would take place in a biologically "stable"
population. It too would have to be "programmed", would it not? (is that
what you mean by "pyscho-social evolution"?) What drives social evolution?
Its the biological diversity. If that is eliminated by genetically altering
Dynamic Quality "into", in essence locking it out of, the biological level,
there will be nothing to drive the social or intellect levels either. That
culture would end up in a Brave New World type scenario, don't you think?
I am struggling with this notion of life. I just read where a team of
scientists have been given the go ahead to construct a living bacteria. My
question: where does the "life" come from? Do they just put all the parts
together and the bacteria starts living? Do they need to act like Dr.
Frankenstein and shock the bacteria to life? I really need to read up on
this more, but if anyone has any answers I would love to read them.
best wishes,
glove
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