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The Pros And Cons Of Human Intervention

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Human Intervention

If humans have the capability to unintentionally encourage changes in the natural evolutionary process as in the case of the Cesarean Section, imagine the effect that we could have if we intentionally manipulated the evolutionary process; if we learned to control it and influence it using advanced technologies. And what if this manipulation evolved into complete control wherein evolution became a man-made entity?

The integration of our most advanced technologies with natural processes is inevitable, especially with the urgency and importance placed on the advancement of both the human experience and the human condition. With that in mind, it is evident that human domination of natural selection through technological intervention is the future of human evolution.

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Genetic mutation is one such technology which will aid us in this endeavour. However, we must first look to the past so that we may assess its potential influence and the scale of this influence. Michio Kaku a …show more content…

According to Owen, "Evolutionary selection could occur in a population of uploads or artificial intelligence just as much as it could in a population of biological organisms," he told National Geographic News. "In fact, it might operate much faster there, because artificial intellects could reproduce much faster." (nationalgeographic.com) If this is indeed the case, it has the ability to function without selective pressure and can even accelerate evolution. Essentially it imitates natural selection/evolution in a more effective way; so much so that this relation could be misconstrued as one wherein nature is imitating technology. The point is that this method, if developed and operationalized correctly, eliminates the necessity of selective pressure and, at the same time, would accelerate the technological evolutionary process by an extraordinary

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