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Originally posted by evolo
That was one of the most intriguing concepts in the film.
He talks about human evolution, and the time span of the human race. How it's been 100,000 years or whatever since humans first came to, and now in the past few centuries, decades, years, all these breakthroughs have occured. AI, industrial/agricultural/technological revolutions, physics, and such. Humans are evolving so fast that they could find truth within our generation or the next. The neo-humans he's talking about are the people that find truth.
When these neo-humans evolve, a new species is created, the beginning of another life form. And the cycle continues.
At least that's what I got out of it summed up.
(bold mine) that's what I thought was rediculous about the whole idea. Why does he think neo-humans will be any closer to "the truth" than humans are already(which is not close at all)? What makes him think evolutionary time is telescoping? He compares the evolution of vertebrates to the invention of fire to the industrial revolution, as if because they are breakthroughs of similar magnitude(and are they really?) they must have taken similar amounts of time, but they are completely different processes. Evolution is still plodding along like it always has, except that natural selection can't really apply to humans, an we're killing off other species at an amazing rate. Humans are like cancerous cells and natural selection is their p53 gene.