[RPS37]

Because of the way evolution works, we are always evolving. However I think we're doing it slower and in a different way. We no longer have natural pressures on our bodies to adapt because our technology does that for us. Why do you think we can't stomach raw meat so well? What's happening is a technological evolution. We've put ourselves OUTSIDE the realm of natural selection. We take care and support out sick, our mentally and physically disordered, and we even let these same people reproduce without any repercussions. If our technology wasn't so awesome I'd be willing to take the ethical blow and ban people pre-disposed to these kind of bad genes from reproducing. However at the rate our technology is going we have no need too. With stem cells, nano-tech, gene therapy, prosthetics, etc. we can make ourselves as grand as we want.

I had a recent extreme pressure in my body to get some ass. So I thought about how I could do it. I aint tryna be no 40-year-old Virgin.

EDIT: Another instance. Art. If you make shitty art. People are supposed to stop paying attention to it. They generally do too. So the art must evolve. Like the art of starting threads.

[RPS37]

Confession time! I started rapping a couple years ago. Well, writing poetry. The other day I got high. Once I stopped being high, I still understood what I understood whilst being high.

I now understand pretty much all art. It's amazing. And I'm not alone.

I also played FEZ and Journey recently. Crazy experiences which I completely understand.

Also, art = our own "dreams". I understand my own now too. I've "mastered" every metaphor.

FINAL UPDATE before the video: Do you understand the metaphor we're trying to make with just the chorus?

The answer to my thread title: When we make our brains LOVE not FEAR the Unknown

[Lord Ghirahim]

I now understand pretty much all art. It's amazing. And I'm not alone.

I understand everything you do and then a little extra too.

FINAL UPDATE before the video: Do you understand the metaphor we're trying to make with just the chorus?

I'm not sure if I could map out my understanding of it in a way you could comprehend.

[RPS37]

I understand everything you do and then a little extra too. I'm not sure if I could map out my understanding of it in a way you could comprehend.

I still get it. Are you serious.
We're literally re-enacting Kid's Story.
IF SO, FUCK YEAH. LEVEL UP!

[Emwitus]

Because of the way evolution works, we are always evolving. However I think we're doing it slower and in a different way. We no longer have natural pressures on our bodies to adapt because our technology does that for us. Why do you think we can't stomach raw meat so well? What's happening is a technological evolution. We've put ourselves OUTSIDE the realm of natural selection. We take care and support out sick, our mentally and physically disordered, and we even let these same people reproduce without any repercussions. If our technology wasn't so awesome I'd be willing to take the ethical blow and ban people pre-disposed to these kind of bad genes from reproducing. However at the rate our technology is going we have no need too. With stem cells, nano-tech, gene therapy, prosthetics, etc. we can make ourselves as grand as we want.

haha. I don't think the brain works like that.

[Lord Ghirahim]

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...in_psychopaths

Maybe the next step is figuring out how to enhance the links between the amygdala and the vmPFC. Assuming those weak links are the cause of it, anyway.

[Ultimadrago]

If everyone is robocop. Then who is criminal?

Mother Nature.

[RPS37]

Is on Netflix. Holds the answer. I believe it. Swear I never had totals DMT to do it.
I fasted for two days and it opened.

[SquiddyCracker]

Is on Netflix. Holds the answer. I believe it. Swear I never had totals DMT to do it. I fasted for two days and it opened.

wat.

[RPS37]

Dead serious. I recently got over social anxiety. I was "manic" when I was skydivIng.

[HephalumpsAndWoozles]

What do you mean by this, exactly? Can't tell if you're parroting the "10%" myth or referring to something else.

Regardless of this myth, do you not think its possible to use our brains in different manners that we are incapable of now?

I remember watching something on science about "super-humans" or people with ridiculous abilities. One guy was a human calculator pretty much, and they discovered he used an entirely different part of his brain to perform calculations than an average person.

Maybe different parts of the brain could be better suited for certain tasks, and perhaps one day we will actually be able to control that.

[Scrow]

someone is high

[DarkKyo]

Thank god the singularity is coming up. Otherwise the human race would be fucking screwed evolution-wise. Just look at that thread where the deadbeat dad has like 33 kids. Do you think his genes are superior? Fuck no. But he threw his shitty genetic paste all over the wall of humanity and so much of it took. Why? Because he was able to thanks to modern society. Same as all the backwards, slack-jawed yokels having dozens of kids deep in the woods. Our culture, nature, and circumstances have lead to evolutionary suicide at this point. The sooner the smart ones can merge with machines the better. Hell, even if the stupid ones merge with machines we can bless and supplement their tiny minds with a plethora of truth and intelligence in the blink of an eye.

Part of me believes the singularity can't come soon enough.

[Lizard with a ladder]

Is on Netflix. Holds the answer. I believe it. Swear I never had totals DMT to do it. I fasted for two days and it opened.

Perhaps English isn't your native language or you're really high when you posted this but I'm having trouble understanding what you're talking about. You fasted for 2 days, did DMT and something opened? what?

[IceCold]

Thank god the singularity is coming up. Otherwise the human race would be fucking screwed evolution-wise. Just look at that thread where the deadbeat dad has like 33 kids. Do you think his genes are superior? Fuck no. But he threw his shitty genetic paste all over the wall of humanity and so much of it took. Why? Because he was able to thanks to modern society. Same as all the backwards, slack-jawed yokels having dozens of kids deep in the woods. Our culture, nature, and circumstances have lead to evolutionary suicide at this point. The sooner the smart ones can merge with machines the better. Hell, even if the stupid ones merge with machines we can bless and supplement their tiny minds with a plethora of truth and intelligence in the blink of an eye. Part of me believes the singularity can't come soon enough.

More like: The sooner the rich ones can merge with machines the better.

Then it will cause an even bigger divide between classes.

[Napoleonthechimp]

Even ignoring the 90% myth, think about it. There is no logical way for your brain synapses to exert physical force without using your body (telekinesis), and there is no logical way for your brain to access synaptic signals that are not directly physically connected to it (telepathy). Even if you could, the energy required would put you in a coma from the slightest exertion.

We'll have technological telepathy long before we ever develop the ability to do it naturally.

[danwarb]

That list is out of order. There's no proper order.

Humans in the future might build onto their brains with implants, to give them control over their environment and convenient computer assisted thinking.

[Chinner]

Perhaps English isn't your native language or you're really high when you posted this but I'm having trouble understanding what you're talking about. You fasted for 2 days, did DMT and something opened? what?

maybe he was constipated.

[CornBurrito]

Human brains aren't evolving, they're regressing. That is they're evolving but not into something better.

I see someone failed to pay attention in biology class.

[Dambrosi]

Evolve to do what, exactly?

To pilot our Gundams in space, telepathically.

We already have prototype mechs in development, now all we need are Newtypes to pilot them!

[Cyan]

I see someone failed to pay attention in biology class.

Or is arguing for eugenics.

[Tenks]

Are we sure humans are even evolving any more? Evolution requires something to spur the change. It doesn't just happen for the hell of it. Right now humans have nothing stopping us from freely reproducing except for ourselves. In fact it seems like the best and brightest human beings are not reproducing nearly as much as the worse off. I'd almost think the population will get stupider before smarter. However it will be propelled forward by the best and brightest leveraging information previously harvested so I guess as a society we will move forward.


In other words I don't know.

[spandexmonkey]

Are we sure humans are even evolving any more? Evolution requires something to spur the change. It doesn't just happen for the hell of it. Right now humans have nothing stopping us from freely reproducing except for ourselves. In fact it seems like the best and brightest human beings are not reproducing nearly as much as the worse off. I'd almost think the population will get stupider before smarter. However it will be propelled forward by the best and brightest leveraging information previously harvested so I guess as a society we will move forward. In other words I don't know.

Only way humans stop evolving is if they stop breeding. The criteria for our selection may change, but evolution is still in full swing.

[Conciliator]

Yup, we evolve and evolve and evolve. In fact, because our environment changes so rapidly, we might be evolving at a dramatic rate(like in the Cambrian explosion.) The problem is that people who may not know better attach evolution - a scientific, literal phenomenon - to something akin to the concept of transcendence. We are evolving, but not necessarily getting 'better' in the way that some might like to think of it. People not having kids are not passing traits down, and people who have tons of kids are passing their traits down significantly, for better or worse. And the progress of civilization is so quick(six thousand years is a blink in the history of life. The last 100 years - a period of massive, transformational development in itself - couldn't even qualify as a blink) in comparison to evolution that it just doesn't matter that much. If we can somehow keep civilization going in an upward direction for 100,000 years...well, hell, anything could happen, I wouldn't want to guess. But humanity will probably either be completely dead or have mastery over the human brain by the time evolution over the course of civilization will be a really important factor.

[Fancy Corndog]

I don't know if our brains are doing much. They're definitely adapting to a different environment, and the way people think is changing drastically, but I don't think it's a fundamental / permanent biological change. If you took a baby born today and dropped it back into the past to be raised, I'm not sure that it would stand out mentally in any way.

I think we are becoming more fragile and more empathetic though. We're more fragile because technology (including medicine) has been pushing natural selection away, and we're becoming more empathetic because we're becoming more similar.

If you ask me to predict where we're going based on which factors influence human reproduction choices, I would say that we're getting taller and more uniform. People who are different usually don't do as well. Different tends to be ugly, or unacceptable. So in 5,000 years I think we'll be taller and all look alike, and probably be of more similar mindsets. This is why I think we'll be more empathetic, or at least have the illusion of being more empathetic. We'll just be a lot more similar to each other. Maybe we'll even have that sci-fi concept of telepathy, on some level. If you can imagine, it might be similar to everyone being twins (or approaching that, at least).

So we'll be fragile, and less adaptable. We'll also be something like a hive mind with intense technological capabilities to handle adaptation for us. I think we're turning into glass thinking-cannons, basically. Interestingly, I think we actually know this on some level. It's probably where our image of advanced beings come from; 'grey aliens' are an example of this.

[Tenks]

Only way humans stop evolving is if they stop breeding. The criteria for our selection may change, but evolution is still in full swing.

Wasn't the OP specifically about brain evolution? My response was more directed at that not general purpose human evolution.

[RPS37]

Perhaps English isn't your native language or you're really high when you posted this but I'm having trouble understanding what you're talking about. You fasted for 2 days, did DMT and something opened? what?

I fasted for two days, which caused my brain to dose itself with DMT. DMT appears naturally in the Pineal gland (the third eye).....

So my question in the OP was supposed to be like, "When will we stop creating savants, and people are just great artists or mathmeticians automatically without a defect in some other part of the brain" kind of evolution. Or HAVE MORE EMPATHY, literally. It would be like becoming psychic.

[Lord Ghirahim]

I fasted for two days, which caused my brain to dose itself with DMT. DMT appears naturally in the Pineal gland (the third eye).....

Just fasting?