Monday, April 28, 2014

This is the future, assuming we survive the present


Denis Dutton and others define natural selection as the development of species by a process of random mutation and selective retention. But something is missing from this account, as expressed by Doran McCarty: “Chance and natural selection do take place, but there is a guiding force in the selection process.” It is the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood within life, not yet acknowledged by science, that is activating life to evolve toward higher consciousness, intelligence and beauty, all the way to Godhood, which is the virtual eternal retention or representation of the highest evolved life. This worldview is contained in the next religion, while conservatively retaining elements of past religions (see the Twofold Path).

For life to evolve to Godhood a natural, positive eugenics (yes, the dreaded word) can be applied, along with genetic engineering, and not merely development toward intelligence machines. It will be a conscious selection process making up for the reduced natural selection of modern times, which has brought an increased genetic load of disadvantageous genes into the gene pool---since we don't want to go back to primitive times and the primitive selection process.

We can now deal with cultural and ethnic diversity not with multiethnic states, which Pearson described as trying to impose a fabricated cultural homogeneity upon members, usually with some version of force, which doesn't work for long in any case. A better way for real human nature, all gene pools, all ethnic groups, all small states, is to keep the diversity, which is good for evolution, and learn cooperative competition within a general ethnopluralism. As Cattell, an early scientific advocate of future human evolution said, we want “Federation not hegemony.”

Outsider thinking? Of course, but this is the future, I am sure of it, assuming we survive the present.  I think many people sense intuitively that this is the future, even when they feel that they must disagree with it.

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