'Ιin our current view, organisms are largely ad hoc solutions to design problems cobbled together by selection. It follows that most properties which are widespread in organisms are widespread by virtue of common descent from a tinkered-together ancestor, with selective maintenance of the useful tinkerings. It follows that we see organisms as overwhelmingly contingent historical accidents, abetted by design.' Stuart A. Kauffman, The origins of Order
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suggestion : If we assume that humans are a part of nature, then,
for every mutation in the lab, nature determines all future evolutions. Evolution
may use its own product, humans, as a mean for future mutations. If we take
this hypothesis even further, considering our own selves to be the last border
of civilization, could we also argue that constructing our genetically engineered
successors will be the main issue of the future?
Given that the body has already been open to extensions, it now becomes a
field for transformations. These changes will be derived from our inner body,
the genetic code, producing unpredictable forms. The aim would be to change
the genetic data in a way that a hybridist form of the human being will be
realized. The natural selection could determine whether humans or human artifacts
would survive in the process of evolution.
It is now more appropriate to say that if humans are part of nature, nature
chooses all potential evolutions. Will a hypothetical Superhuman, as an artistic
product, be able to manifest an acceleration in the evolutionary process?
>> man as the product of nature
>> nature as the product of humanity
>> are humans inseparable from nature?
>> superhuman
>> new skeleton
>> purposeful mutations
