🚀 go-pugleaf

Ack. The exact same new-age nonsense posted in comp.society now.

> Homo trans-sapiens is the [postulated] next step in evolution of homo 
> sapiens.  There is no reason to expect or require that Homo sapiens will 
> not undergo further evolution.

There is no reason to expect or require that this evolution will be along
the same lines as that observed up to now. Evolution is not a directed
process, but is the result of the selective pressure on individuals prior
to reproduction. The nature of this pressure has changed drastically in
the past million years, and there is reason to believe that selective
pressure in favor of increased brain size and complexity no longer exists.
In fact trends over the past fifty thousand years reflect this.

Don't expect benign mutations to pull us out of the mess. It's gonna take
real work by a huge number of real people, and behaviours left over from
the period *you're* taking into account make it very hard to get things
started. The first tools were swords, not plowshares.

Peter da Silva