Few people realize the likely societal consequences of the CRISPR-Cas9 tool which allows us to optimize living things (including humans) in a routine way by editing DNA and RNA. The majority of people who understand the importance of the CRISPR-Cas9 tool, refuse to admit the fact that from now on, our relationship with nature is changing, and that by extension, our relationship with our own body (as an individual) is changing also. However, any new tool constitutes not only a factor of progress, but unfortunately also a new risk factor in terms of epidemiological accident and / or war. It follows that if humanity survives this new tool, it will claim a new status within the living. We must anticipate the fact that science discovers that the chromosomes of the living (I am not talking only of the human species) contain sections that program growth, maturity, senescence and death. We must anticipate the fact that human society opts for quality rather than quantity (demography). Can you imagine the implications, the risks of conflicts? We must anticipate the fact that human society opts for a considerable lengthening of the human life cycle (quasi-immortality). It is necessary to anticipate the fact that human society decides to institute a feedback at the level of human reproduction, in order to increase the propagation of the characters judged as positive, and in order to decrease the propagation of the characters judged as negative (eugenics). We must anticipate the fact that human society is extending such a process to the rest of the biosphere.simplino wrote:This is not a hypothesis, it is a scientific reality: we are formed to 8% of old retroviruses.
It is obvious to me that the only solution to avoid the generalized conflict, consists in the preparation horizon 50 years, of human communities wishing to live without attachment, in autarky as far as possible in space. It's that simple. Now that you know that, there is no point in trying to convince anyone. This airs the reflection.
Now watch. The CRISPR-Cas9 tool will inevitably be present in these “migrant” communities, who will see it not as a source of discord on earth, but as a tool to ensure survival and reproduction far in space. With this in mind, CRISPR-Cas9 will mainly be applied to optimize the production of food, reagents and energy. The optimization of man and eugenics will be practiced with full knowledge of the facts, the slightest error signing the death of the community. It's a good pledge, isn't it? Think about it. Think about the qualities of the communities that will have passed this ordeal. This dynamic is great.
In 100, 1.000 or 10.000 years, considering that this or that community deigns to take an interest in its cradle, it will take an attitude. The first major debate which will reign within this community, will be to decide whether or not it is necessary to be concerned with the state of the cradle, possibly considered as returnable packaging. There may be a schism at this level, the new community dividing into two branches (to be interested, or not to be interested). The second big debate which will reign within one of the branches, will be to decide whether or not it is advisable to intervene, and if necessary, which mix to use (meteorite, deluge, prophet, mutation). We can imagine the tensions that will reign as soon as the positions of each other are incompatible. Here too, there may be schisms. The space being virtually unlimited, new branches will appear and prosper each on their own, without conflicting.
It then becomes obvious that the closer you get to the cradle (the earth), the greater the danger of a clash. The cradle (the earth) is therefore not the best and most secure place in the universe. On a certain level, it is the worst place in the universe. This is what you have to realize, and keep in mind.
It is likely that such a process is cyclical. It is likely that some of our ancestors perceived scraps of it, interpreted in different ways.
I am well aware that such a dynamic does not explain the why of the how of the Grand Tout, at our level current. Don't ask for more. The day will come, that CRISPR-Cas9 will allow us to tinker with the machinery in us, which is in charge of time perception. It will then be the time to talk about it again, about this Great All, and the other Great Great All that eventually contains it - unless at such a level, concept no longer holds.