Information comprises all we know and are. This maxim transcends most world-views and religious traditions, from Plato and Descartes to Thomas Young and Heisenberg, Humans intuitively know that information surrounds, informs, and composes our being. You and I are blessed enough to exist at a point in the history of the cosmos of ineffable import. Information at present is only sentient within a human brain, however that is about to change.
Natural Selection's effect on of the evolution of Humanity has diminished to a point no longer probative or relevant. Socio-sexual selection continues on apace, but lacks the urgency of primal natural selection and also is now rendered irrelevant. The technological innovations of the next century will impact the complexity of life (both biological and technological) in so profound a manner that its like has not been seen on Earth since the early Cambrian.
The very nature of Humanity will be challenged and redefined. Homo Sapiens mastered fire and language, and set our species on course to supplant biological evolution with technological evolution. In the next decades the effects of this shit will become increasingly obvious as our life-spans, healthcare and cognitive capacities become augmented through advances in genetics and nano-moleculer machines. Artificial beings with complex, creative, and emotional intelligence will join the Human family. Humanity is about to be reborn. No longer Homo Sapien, but something altogether different. An amplified, expanded, and transcendent species: Homo Amplio.
For an in depth overview of this process see The Law of Accelerating Returns
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