{"id":458,"date":"2012-12-18T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=458"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:00:36","slug":"human-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/human-is-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Human is Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Transhuman\"<\/p>\n

You might be among the first to defy death! Or, be among the last to celebrate life!!<\/p>\n

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Evolution, the\u00a0blind watchmaker<\/a>, has been toying around with various models of biological entities for the last\u00a0three and a half billion years<\/a>. \u00a0And if you subscribe to\u00a0panspermia<\/a>\u00a0(that the first life form originated somewhere else in the Universe and floated to the earth as star dust), God know how many years of evolution was under play before the three and a half billion years of evolutionary drama started on earth!<\/p>\n

Evolution builds on top of evolution. \u00a0Because of this, as the time progresses, evolutionary changes happen in\u00a0exponential speed<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, or brains are not geared up to perceive geometric progression. \u00a0That speed of evolution picked up with appearance of intelligent humans on earth.<\/p>\n

‘Natural vs artificial’ is a false dichotomy. \u00a0Brick and mortar, soot and sewer are products of evolution, just as a honeycomb is a product of evolution. \u00a0Extending that thinking…<\/p>\n

all the human achievement, including science, technology, philosophy, arts, modern medicine are all products of evolution<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ray Kurzweil of MIT has figured out a neat way to predict the progress of information technology. \u00a0Kurzweil has proposed (this\u00a0video<\/a>) that<\/p>\n