Future of Man: the Speciation Process

From: Fabrizio J. Bonsignore (fbonsignore_at_beethoven.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: 14 Sep 2004 21:34:54 -0700

That Evolution is stopped in relation to Reason doesn`t mean that the
basic definition of the human species is not changing, only that this
change is so slow that for practical purposes is irrelevant. And yet
the basic requirements for the speciation process in Man are already
given.

There are, not only geographical barriers to cross breeding but also
sociopolitical ones. In fact, each national state is in itself a
melting pot where one of the possible futures of Man is being born.
There are strong barriers to cross race procreation. How long before
those barriers turn from social to biological ones? Strictly speaking,
the Down syndrome children are *already* a different species; a
different number of chromosomes which, if allowed to interbreed will
eventually lead to a totally different species, unable to procreate
with `normal` humans. Exactly what space of possibilities in the
Reality of biological beings will they be exploring, quite literally
only they know. To many people they are indeed special, and that
speciality might in te future reveal in interesting ways if a
population of them is allowed to form and develop for itself.

Even is Reason is the defining characteristic in the human species
doesn`t mean that it must remain so for the unforseeable future. Whole
populations can be interbreeding to select, from a social (mores,
prejudices) point of view, characteristics that emphatize not an
increase in intelligence but a decrease, an involution. Nowhere says
or is written that intelligence as we know it must remain in the
definition of the species. Though language very probably will remain a
basic characteristic of future humanities (too useful to ignore),
different roles for it may develop accordingly to other biological
characteristics and different humanities may grant it a bigger or
lesser importance in their everyday behaviour (there are societies
that read an write little, while others dedicate lots of resource to
verbal and/or written communication). DNA is a language that changes
in subtle and almost continuous way, give the enormous quatities of
information that go in the definition of an individual.

Unfortunately, this speciation process is such that it introduces
tensions in the human family. By its mere definition, the speciation
process can lead to wars and other social unrest among Nations. That
we be able to manage this divergent differences peacefully is one of
the most challenging aspects of the future of Man...

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