On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> via Everything List wrote:
>> [Me] Nations? People? You're showing a remarkable lack of imagination and >> making > a lot of unwarranted assumptions. A 100 years from now (maybe less than > 50) nation states will certainly no longer exist and even something that > you are I would recognize as a biological human being probably won't. > > > > The only way I see that is if we snuff ourselves out, which is possible. > I'm not talking about humans snuffing themselves out although I admit that's possible, I'm talking about humans replacing parts of themselves until there is no longer anything very human about them. Some signals in the brain move as slowly as .01 meters per second, the slow diffusion of hormones for example, but even the very fastest signals in the brain move at only 100 meters per second and light moves at 300,000,000 meters per second; and in a computer made with Nanotechnology the distances the signal must travel will be far shorter because the components will be much smaller. And that's without even considering Quantum Computers. There is just no way biology can compete with that. > Nation states will otherwise probably exist, > Their life expectancy depends on the evolution of Memes not the evolution of genes as in Darwinian evolution, but Memes evolve astronomically faster than genes. > > Human also will exist, > Information processing Turing Machines that remember once being human will still exist a century from now, but if you or I were to see one we wouldn't say they looked or acted like a human. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3YngbxcJb2P4-XmRb-gB8AzvcErZkJ9wKhij8O1uQE4A%40mail.gmail.com.
