[mark]

As we each have a spark of the infinite within our minds, there can be no limits, save those self-imposed.

[Concerned]

Wisdom is the limit of intelligence. Our ape primal genetic code limits both.

CDO's and all those fancy derivatives and insurance swaps. How clever

How much brain power and human labor goes into creating advanced clubs and shields? about $1,100,000,000,000 EVERY YEAR (1.1 trillion)

Still adding tens of millions in global population on a finite planet.

I could go on but....

Yep "no limit" to intelligence

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'H')ooey

[Duare]

Does, or can, Hawking explain how all that information was first programed into our DNA? That seems to me to be a question that ought to be answered before he can assume we are happily onto the next stage.

[Windmills]

What is this novel and ubiquitous method of altering the DNA of our offspring? I'm not sure that I understand what Hawking is proposing. It still seems that the vast majority of people around the world are still using old fashioned sex to reproduce, which means there's nothing new about our evolution.

[Grautr]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'W')hat is this novel and ubiquitous method of altering the DNA of our offspring? I'm not sure that I understand what Hawking is proposing. It still seems that the vast majority of people around the world are still using old fashioned sex to reproduce, which means there's nothing new about our evolution.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grautr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'W')hat is this novel and ubiquitous method of altering the DNA of our offspring? I'm not sure that I understand what Hawking is proposing. It still seems that the vast majority of people around the world are still using old fashioned sex to reproduce, which means there's nothing new about our evolution.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')awking merely points out that this progressively deeper human knowledge, should be considered as part of Evolution Science because it is inevitable that this knowledge will eventually enable people to modify themselves at a fundamental level.

[eXpat]

[Windmills]

I see. So this is once again basically all on the drawing board. Like fusion. There's no revolution happening, just people predicting that one will.

I wonder if it's inevitable that high tech bio will survive the disintegration of our high energy society.

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I') always muse that this huge population hump (which was created from our exploitation of ancient, stored sunlight) that we are all part of -- is just another of Gaia's birthing pangs of some creature capable of vastly greater awareness. Just my hunch.

[NickyBoy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')awking merely points out that this progressively deeper human knowledge, should be considered as part of Evolution Science because it is inevitable that this knowledge will eventually enable people to modify themselves at a fundamental level.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lthough It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year.

"By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA."

This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information..."

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I') always muse that this huge population hump (which was created from our exploitation of ancient, stored sunlight) that we are all part of -- is just another of Gaia's birthing pangs of some creature capable of vastly greater awareness. Just my hunch.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I') always muse that this huge population hump (which was created from our exploitation of ancient, stored sunlight) that we are all part of -- is just another of Gaia's birthing pangs of some creature capable of vastly greater awareness. Just my hunch.

[Ibon]

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[Carlhole]

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[eXpat]

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