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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (205366)	10/7/2006 5:40:07 PM
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maybe I have the analogy wrong. No, your analogy is correct. I suppose we could quibble over the exact rate of change in our DNA, but I’ll concede that we’re moving faster than I can perceive. I hadn’t read about the Flynn Effect regarding increasing IQs, but Wikipedia states that Attempted explanations have included improved nutrition, a trend towards smaller families, better education, greater environmental complexity, and heterosis. I notice that only one of these is related to DNA, and the rest are related to advances in civilization. I have read about punctuated equilibrium. Have you heard about the research in mitochondrial DNA that seems to indicate that our genetic divergence restarted around 100,000 years ago? This is called the “Recent Africa Origin” in this website: actionbioscience.org These results are odd because various chimpanzee species show 3 million years of diversity. Some geologists think that they have found evidence of an eruption that occurred about 70,000 years that may have wiped out many hominid species, leaving only a few members of a tribe to repopulate the world with our lineage. The change is very fast once the trend is set. Punctuated equilibrium is the jargon. My WAG was that the idea of punctuated equilibrium was used for the X-Men comic book/movie characters. There is a new TV series, Heroes, that uses the same idea: we are rapidly evolving new (genetic) capabilities which we will struggle to understand their extent and their place in our society. My point is that…there isn't a useful purpose for violence these days. I wish we could all see the wisdom of that awareness. This is Buddha’s consciousness, Christ’s, Gandhi’s and the Dalai Lama’s as well; however, some of us are pigheaded. knowledge is freed to roam in the wilds of cyberspace. A law unto itself - a zygotic consciousness on a grand scale. Yes, I concur. When the internet was first being constructed, some earlier developers thought that we were constructing the world’s “nervous system” and that a consciousness of some sort would follow thereafter. I hope we are synthesizing the best ideas and values that our histories have constructed, and filtering out the venom and bile that come with the territory. If QCOM provides more mechanisms to connect to this ecology of ideas, I’m glad to be a shareholder. The future of cyberspace and Hayes will be inextricably bound. I wish the very best for both.