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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (33297)3/24/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
>And so, in the process, we defeat the effects
of natural selection.<

I believe this is a temporary setback. Within a century (barring a natural or artificial disaster of global magnitude) we will have come through this interregnum. We are on the cusp of something awesome. As we gain insight into the genetic code we will amass the knowledge to write that code as easily as today's endomorphic teenagers massage digital code.
This is as big as that event a 600 million years ago when unicells banded together and divided the labor of living.
We enter a time when direct conscious feedback into our physical nature is possible on timespans shorter than a generation. We are not nearly there yet. Editing living genes in anything bigger than a bacterium is still science fiction - if you discount hit-and-miss strategies like site-directed mutagenesis.
We will have the power to remake ourselves as individuals and societies. The potential will be there for a deliberate radiation of species all springing from H. Sapiens, a radiation of dazzling richness like nothing the planet has seen since the early Cambrian.

We can debate whether this is good or evil. We can stop this process by bringing down the nuclear curtain. But absent such a disaster - no king and no God can keep us from grabbing the keys off the mantelpiece. It will be terrible and glorious.
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