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Perhaps a speech and script we hurry. Stephen Hawking argues that the evolution of the human mind will bring more harm than good.
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In 1996, the Stephen Hawking in his famous lecture "Life in the Universe" explained that we are entering a new stage of evolution, and the mind can not be an evolutionary advantage to humans.
Hawking said that biological evolution is very slow, by natural selection of random mutations. What he calls "Darwinian phase" of evolution, took about 3, 5 billion years of slow and steady progress.
And now we have entered a phase which Hawking calls "external transfer". This means that our evolution is not DNA directs and information around us. Language and in particular appeared about 10,000 years ago, writing enabled humanity to grow by leaps and bounds. Maybe faster than was necessary for our own good.
The mind is dangerous, because we keep the same primitive instincts and aggressive impulses, as in the Stone Age, but we now have nuclear weapons and science to create genetically modified viruses. But, according to Hawking, the time to wait until "Darwinian" evolution will make us smarter and kinder, no.
Source: www.factroom.ru/facts/51922
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In 1996, the Stephen Hawking in his famous lecture "Life in the Universe" explained that we are entering a new stage of evolution, and the mind can not be an evolutionary advantage to humans.
Hawking said that biological evolution is very slow, by natural selection of random mutations. What he calls "Darwinian phase" of evolution, took about 3, 5 billion years of slow and steady progress.
And now we have entered a phase which Hawking calls "external transfer". This means that our evolution is not DNA directs and information around us. Language and in particular appeared about 10,000 years ago, writing enabled humanity to grow by leaps and bounds. Maybe faster than was necessary for our own good.
The mind is dangerous, because we keep the same primitive instincts and aggressive impulses, as in the Stone Age, but we now have nuclear weapons and science to create genetically modified viruses. But, according to Hawking, the time to wait until "Darwinian" evolution will make us smarter and kinder, no.
Source: www.factroom.ru/facts/51922