Humans are the peak of evolution

Discussion in 'High Ideas' started by Imaginary Panda, May 23, 2015.

  1. #1 Imaginary Panda, May 23, 2015
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    Think about it.

    The reason the earth never changed before humans is because they were still weak! Evolution created humans!

    As humans we could think and reason, unlike animals.

    BUT we also get the human condition. The wondering on why we exist. Animals don't wonder that!

    We have dominated all other animals. Because we are superior!

    We are the supreme animal race here in earth.

    And perhaps other planets billions and billions of light years away have their supreme animal.

    What would it look like? Can't think of a new color, this is the same.

    The human condition, the wondering why we exist is what created God.

    Any religion, any idea of life beyond death is created by humans!

    We don't know what happens after you die! Its a mystery, so people scared of that use religion so they have an afterlife.

    So, yeah.
     
  2. To bad humans arnt evolved enough yet to care for the earth.... Well I take that back, times have changed, the Indians used to think of the next seven generations before them and how there effects on the earth would affect them. Something the world seems to have forgotten.
     
  3. i disagree with what you stated, how other species cant think and reason. i feel that they do however they dont have the need to desire more than they already have unlike us. i feel the one thing that us humans have that they dont, is fear. like you said. its fear that generates religion to obscure our thought of death. i believe the same goes for our initiative to seek what we do not yet know and get the most out of life. other species on the other hand just dont give a fuck. their "religion" as you may call it consists of the simplistic nesseceties that are required to continue the existance of their species. unlike us humans i feel as long as they have children to live beyond their lifetime, they are content.
     
  4. I think Imaginary Panda has an Imaginary Education.
     
  5. Well I think we nullified "survival of the fittest"

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    I think we're done biologically evolving for the most part (so I guess you could say the human brain was the pinnacle of biological evolution) and now we're on to biomechanical evolution.
     
  6. you think that's some shit?  Wait for the singularity.
     
  7. The Earth has been in a constant state of change since before humans have been around.. and animals very much think and reason, we humans (should) know that. Can't say for sure if they wonder why they exist.. that part is rather new in terms of our evolution. Lots of concepts are rather new.. like the concept of 'what if'. Some cultures today that aren't as advanced don't even have a concept of what if.. like if we were to be on a bus and missed it and that bus crashed and everyone died, most of us would think about 'what if I was on that? I'm lucky..' while another that doesn't have that concept would take it as just another part of life and pay no mind. There are animals well aware that they are alive and could die and go on to mourn those of their kind that die.. and people like to say animals can't ask questions, and that is kind of wrong. One of the most recognized words between humans no matter the language is 'huh'.. which was never really a word, but a noise we make when we question something. Usually we cock our head to the side a lil bit when doing it too.. and if you know dogs, you'd know they do that too. Other animals do as well.. and that is them asking a question.

    Just had to get that rant out.. but yeah, we aren't going to evolve much.. I mean, evolution is a constant.. so just by a species being alive it will evolve. Our evolution, since we've scrapped the whole survival of the fittest thing, will go all sorts of directions. As for the God thing, spot on.
     
  8. What if animals do think and reason, how would we know if they did or didn't. Maybe they're planning world domination right now.. You never really know.
     
  9. No we're not. There is no "peak" of evolution. It's a continuous adaptive process. 
     
  10. #10 s A t I v A, May 28, 2015
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    I should hope we are not at the peak of our evolution...

    we kill in the name of imaginary gods, we consume, and destroy our natural resources, shall I continue?

    I think our minds and actions are rather primitive versus advanced.
     
  11. I don't think that we are at the peak of evolution at all. Evolution is an unavoidable process as long as we exist. The problem is that we can never predict the direction it will go in. Even mutations that appear negative, for example, can have some weird positive outcome that we've never though of. For example, due to our eating habits, kids now get diabetes. It is possible that some genetic mutation could somehow moderate blood sugar and make it to where we can't get diabetes. This is a hypothetical, and there is no evidence for it, but even negative events and variables can have positive effects. 
     
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    We're the top dogs of our little place in the universe, but not for much longer
     
    The machine master race is getting smarter
     
    Read up on the future of Strong Artificial Intelligence and be fucking humbled good sir
     
  13. #13 SlightlyStonedSD, May 28, 2015
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    But if the kids that aren't born immune to diabetes are still kept alive long enough with medicine to pass their genes down then the new traits won't catch on like mutations of the past would have.

    I feel like unless we have a breakdown in civilization or a mass extinction there won't be enough death to weed out the old human traits and effectively push our biological evolution forward.

    What do you think?
     
  14. Evolution peaked in highschool...
     
  15. I wish I could give you a good answer. My point is that I don't think there is an answer. There are too many variables. For instance, modern medicine might keep kids with diabetes alive, but it will probably advance to the point in the future in which diabetes is extremely manageable if not curable. Being genetically predispositioned for diabetes might protect us from something else that we haven't even discovered yet. There could be some crazy situation in which those who came from healthier families and therefore didn't inherit genes making diabetes more prominent could be at risk for some other weird thing. I'm going to err on the side of health. My point is simply that even things that appear to be negative can have positive outcomes, but evolution will never stop. We are evolving now as we speak. It's just that the time scale is very slow. 
     
  16. #16 willywagpole, May 28, 2015
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    Peak of (Physical) evolution imo.
     
    Now we only evolve mentally and beyond.
     
    Ever wonder why the Mayan calendar ended on Dec 21 2012? Its the new age of Aquarius, The shift in Consciousness an age of mental evolution thus they Mayans could not think or predict past this point as it required an evolved level of thought.
     
    We are entering the 4th and 5th dimensions.
    http://www.peaceinpractice.iinet.net.au/dimensionsofconsciousness.htm
     
  17. I think it is possible that we could become so dependent on technology due to the stabilization of genetic diseases that are manageable with high tech healthcare that something like a catastrophic electromagnet is pulse event could collapse world populations. But that would have to be very, very far down the evolutionary line. One thing is sure, in any battle of man vs nature. Nature will inexorably win, IMLTHO.


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  18. The Mayan calendar didn't end in 2012. The Mayan calendar runs in cycles. After 2012, the cycles basically started over, sort of like our seasons. People then ran with this, because why research if you can instead form some magical theory, and said that they predicted the world to end in 2012. Here is a cool side note. There are cultures present today that descended from the Mayans, and they actually use the same calendar that you assert ended in 2012. I live in the United States, and even here, there is an immigrant family that I know of with Mayan heritage that uses the calendar. 
     
  19. I understand and agree i have recently read about this aswell. I didn't necessarily mean ended i meant as in the infamous big date of Dec 21st 2012 and what actually happened . The end of the world shit was just to put fear into peoples lives.
     
  20. It wasn't to put fear into people's live though. That rumor started because people don't using logic and reasoning when researching. People really did think that they world might end. 
     

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