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Newest Reality

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5. When we discover

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 11:08 PM

Feb 2015

in a large context, who and what we really are, then something might be able to happen.

It is possible, but as adaptable as we are, too many ideas about what is, along with conditioned strictures of culture, tend to obscure the potential we have.

That could change, but it would be like dragging ourselves out from under a huge boulder of assumptions. Yet, change is a constant.

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When some long futuristic epoch comes to be and the next apex species forms on this planet... [View all] MrScorpio Feb 2015 OP

We evolved as a clannish tribal species. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2015 #1

I'm quite of the mind that our entire penchant for self-destructiveness is due to genetic imperative MrScorpio Feb 2015 #2

It may very well be that we have reached the bottleneck that explainers the Fermi Paradox. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2015 #3

Yesterday, I watched on CSPAN an author talk about her book... MrScorpio Feb 2015 #4

The first great extinction was when the oxygen released by plants killed off the anaerobic life.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #9

I should have added that ours would be the first SENTIENT species to trigger its own extinction... MrScorpio Feb 2015 #11

When we discover Newest Reality Feb 2015 #5

That would depend on whether we're actually able of learning from our mistakes... MrScorpio Feb 2015 #8

Yes, I agree. Newest Reality Feb 2015 #12

I'm really interested in knowing whether the changes will be either natural or planned. MrScorpio Feb 2015 #14

That's a good philosophical inquiry and an open Newest Reality Feb 2015 #15

What really saddens me is the extent to which abstraction has taken over our lives... MrScorpio Feb 2015 #16

Well, I admire Newest Reality Feb 2015 #17

We know that the universe is huge... MrScorpio Feb 2015 #18

It will be the age of the kitteh NuclearDem Feb 2015 #6

There probably won't be enough time for that, depending on how far the ecosystem gets kicked back Fumesucker Feb 2015 #7

Oh yeah, I do.. MrScorpio Feb 2015 #10

I suspect we may not be that unsusual for an apex species Fumesucker Feb 2015 #13