Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"

I agree with Mr. Hawking. We have evolved to the point where we are so adaptive and resourceful that it is hard for us to evolve because we are no longer always exposed to the natural selections of nature.

We protect the weak, we have hospitals, we no longer compete for scarce resources, and we no longer (mostly at least) have to kill each other. The only way that evolution still continues in our species is mainly through sexual selection...

I would say we could possibly be one of the most adaptive creatures that have ever evolved... and for that reason may transcend evolution itself and remove ourselves from the evolutionary equation.

so we are all going to turn into lego's ?

This guy never read the Bible I guess, there is no such thing as evolution.(LOL) Mankind and the universe is and always will be in a constant state of evolution.

Is the smartest man alive actually stating that it is all downhill from here???

He's so amazing. I heart him.

The rate of evolution increases constantly...

the fact that we have eliminated natural selection is quite frightful...i do not think we are humble enough to take our fate into our own hands... the ego is always our downfall

Next stop, the Ubermensch aka the next Che Guevara...

"We are more than just our genes."

We are also the contents of our books and other information storage devices.

Awww... i liked the lego pic! Plut it back pretty please ?

Problem is , this collective information is not integrated very well or evenly . Also we compete against each other and could screw the whole place in the process ... Still , look how clever we are ! Let us now see if we can adapt to a more sustainable life .

Aw what happened to all the uber-pretentious comments from people who think they're on the same intellectual level as hawking?

i think he is right. with the dawn of the internet, external resources are widely available. the place where this breaks down is where massive amounts of people do not have access to this information capital, namely the third world. this is why vast amounts of people come to the west to study. thats what my father did back in 1982 and now hes got five educated young adults to go out and prosper and in turn help his country men rise up. it is very interesting.

Vesher, very good point.

Almost like a pyramid scheme, but only in the way it works.

Understanding and learning information has been widely unavailable to the entire world. We , as a "newly" evolved species can now have the knowledge, if acquired through education, to learn what is what, and who is who.

Stephen Hawking is a genious. And in what parallel universe do people think they can argue with him about something he probably just thought up and deciphered during a cup of java.?

This is exactly what Richard Dawkins was talking about in The Selfish Gene in '76. This was when he started talking about 'memetics' - applying Darwinian concepts to information, ideas and values.

The only question that remains is when it will reach its Aphex.

At that point, either the "fruits of our knowledge" will enable us, like it has been and will continue to do perhaps, or it will destroy us entirely, well, not entirely. As we will have amassed enough information through radio waves and literary archives to propetuate our evolution beyond man.

According to what Hawking says. I've broke this down to be my official statement on the matter.

Argue with that.

GodsnLiberals, this has nothing to do with the social mind you Media loving whore.

This is about the preservation, and active recording of what we know and learn as a species.

YOu can speculate that it is entertainment that drives the human mind , but in the end, entertainment or any percieved notion to stimulate reaction, can be classified as singular ,and exclusive to the mind who percieves it.

As for your nice little video?

Nothing to do with this subject .

FAIL.

Lets grow some wings!

http://thewyzardproject.blogspot.com/2008/10/distraction.html

Furthermore.......

Rotate the clock 20 years from now, when ALL of the earths people will have access to the information that 47% of us have now.

You think you've seen revolution? You think you've seen spikes in technology? You think at all?

You havent seen shit!!!

Did I mention Hawking is a genious?

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. I'm going off to be productive comrades. All of our talents should be contributing something better to life besides trying to convince some stranger that my bullshit is better then their bullshit. Don't drink the brawndo. Notsure is down for the count.

the "evolution" of technology could be likened to an analogy of generations upon generations of of stone workers who live each day chipping away at the same mountainside; striving to create an image to capture who they are in their existence. but, no matter how great an achievement or how beautiful the image in the mountain becomes; the stone workers themselves never change. the image becomes defined and polished, and even exceeds who it was supposed to emulate. it becomes a beautiful facade. it is not who they are. their work, technology, success; is not who they are. they live, work, and leave behind something they cannot take with them. an entire life lived striving for something that may last longer than the years they are given, but to achieve what? they lived an entire life to have only left all their achievements to be wasted by someone else. maybe the stone workers should evaluate who they are and chip away at that instead of the mountain. we may be proud of what we have created in the boom of technology, but i still see broken and hurting people. there is no hope found at the top of a mountain. it is only in Christ that we may find an eternity in peace. it is in this truth that we may find a reason for life.

Jebus was disproved long ago.

A man, that is his own father. Who through telepathy listens to you when you confess your sins and accept him. Brought on by a woman that ate an apple that a snake in a tree told her was bad.

Yeah, blame it on him why dont ya!