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Sondra Charbadze's avatar

Thank you for this excellent article, Marco! I have often asked myself this same question: why don't we speak more of biological human evolution into the future? Is it due to some deep-seated anxiety that Nature is, as you said, beyond our ability to glimpse and know fully? Or do we just expect (maybe hope) that humans will be obliterated by human-caused climate change or our own technologies before we arrive there? ("hope" because perhaps it's more amenable to our delusions of control to imagine our species' demise than to imagine a radical shift in our human egoic identity/ self-defining). I think you are completely right that trans-humanist mythologies are materialist misunderstandings (I would go so far as to say it's a materialist, pseudo-scientific re-imagining of religious belief, like people wanting to gain immortality through downloading their consciousness to a computer). I think my favorite statement in this article is where you claim that the superpower of our species is *not* our rationality, but its self-overcoming through our recognition of ignorance! This recognition alone would go a long way towards saving our species (saving by self-overcoming). Really looking forward to checking out more of your work!

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Don Salmon's avatar

Excellent. I like this especially: We could also step out of such binary thinking (hmm, non binary individuals, non binary evolution! Just kidding - mostly)

I see you didn't mention bacteria. As far as I know (as a mere psychologist, not a biologist) there's irrefutable evidence that bacteria - one celled organisms - "intentionally" (obviously not consciously) alter their DNA in order to deal with noxious substances, environments, other organisms, etc.

SO much evidence for what you write, in fact, that it really is only a willful blindness that keeps people from seeing it. (even the Nondual folks still try to ignore the possibility of future evolution of the species - and beyond the species).

Fascinating stuff!!

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