From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 12:44:35 MDT
--- Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> > Reproductive fitness is not everything. It
> certainly isn't in
> > the world we are seeking to build.
>
> Actually, successors of expansive, high sustainable
> reproduction species
> will rule most of visible universe. This might be
> not everything, but it's
> damn close.
It just occurred to me that, as this thread
progressed, I kept thinking of reproduction only in
terms of the standard biological form of reproduction.
Now that Gene --the Dark Prince of Ultra-Darwinism
;-)-- has jumped in, I realize my mistake.
Even now, biological evolution mediated by biological
reproduction cannot modify humanity/society nearly as
rapidly as cultural evolution mediated by memetic
reproduction. We're already way past the time when
biological evolution dominates change in humans.
In the future, if and when non-biological reproduction
--sentient entity pattern copying or new pattern
creation, and designed "hardware" (support substrates)
upgrades--becomes a reality, (ie --THE SINGULARITY--),
by that time, any significance of reproductive fitness
in the biological sense will be a distant memory from
a bygone age.
Just a little something to perhaps help you think more
clearly on the matter, and not get unnecessarily
bogged down, as I did, inside the box.
Best, Jeff Davis
"My guess is that people don't yet realize how
"handy" an indefinite lifespan will be."
J Corbally
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