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- Aug 2023
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- for cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution, cumulative cultural evolution, progress trap, Freeman Dyson,
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- Freeman Dyson opines that cultural evolution of humans now determines the genetic fate of all species on the planet
- and gives a warning of how human cumulative cultural evolution now has the potential to threaten, via genetic sciences to play God over biology itself -reference
- Musician Yoyo Ma quotes Freeman:
- https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F2fBmGXqHvk8%2F&group=world
- Freeman Dyson opines that cultural evolution of humans now determines the genetic fate of all species on the planet
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To preserve our wildlife as nature evolved it, the machinery of biological evolution must be protected from the homogenizing effects of cultural evolution.
- for: cultural evolution, cumulative cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution, progress trap, Freeman Dyson, Anthropocene
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- while Freeman spoke to the direct dangers of genetic engineering,
- he neglected to point out the broader threat of progress itself, which has already placed our species in the position
- of playing God with the evolution of many species on the planet already, via the enormous impacts of organized human activity - ie. the Anthropocene
- he neglected to point out the broader threat of progress itself, which has already placed our species in the position
- while Freeman spoke to the direct dangers of genetic engineering,
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The story that they are telling is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago, when the driving force of evolution changed from biology to culture, and the direction changed from diversification to unification of species. The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.
- for: cumulative cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution
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- The story that they are telling
- is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago,
- when the driving force of evolution changed
- from biology
- to culture,
- and the direction changed
- from diversification
- to unification of species.
- The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.
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- Jan 2023
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viahtml.hypothes.is viahtml.hypothes.is
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a couple of years later, I decided to sign up for cosmonaut training in Russia as a backup to Charles Simonyi, the creator of Microsoft Word and also, as it happens, a trustee of the Institute since 1997 (and now Chairman). I told my parents about it over dinner in a restaurant in New York.
@gyuri !- Interesting connection : Charles Simonyi and Freeman Dyson
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Remembering Freeman Dyson
!- Title : Remembering Freeman Dyson
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while I was listening to all of you and to our wonderful scientists 00:57:28 I thought of something that the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson wrote shortly before he died he said he believed that 00:57:40 the speed of cultural Evolution the speed of cultural evolution is now faster than the speed of biological evolution so 00:57:53 what does that mean to me it's something very simple it means that we now hold our destiny in our hands and that's what you're all talking about
!- quotable : Freeman Dyson - the speed of cultural evolution is now faster than the speed of biological evolution - references on the speed of cultural evolution: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=stopresetgo&max=50&any=Cultural+evolution - Freeman Dyson essay on biological and cultural evolution: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fviahtml.hypothes.is%2Fconversation%2Ffreeman_dyson-biological-and-cultural-evolution&group=world
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