Creating a new species(I'm calling YOU out Fnord)

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How do you feel about the fact that certain people are trying to create something that will change this? You might think that this is impossible, but if so you are WRONG. And I didn't have enough space in the subject heading to include ruveyn and iamnotaparakeet. I personally am obsessed with turning this dream idea into reality and before you ask for evidence it is currently on the (digital)drawing board and new technology needs to be invented. As for how it would displace humanity as the apex predator, it would be engineered to be more intelligent than the smartest human(s) and would be covertly provided direct access to human technology-specifically out computer networks.

knowledge is our liberator as well as our undoing. As carl sagan said, the chances of finding another in this universe to share our existence with may be limited by the principle that all great advanced civilizations destroy themselves. Maybe our intelligence is an evolutionary limiting principle to destroy species who step beyond their intended bounds and if we earthlings attempt to conquer our cosmos, the technologies we create have a 50% chance of also being what destroys us.

I entertain the notion that humans are just ornery and perverse enough to beat this fate.

We are the Muddle Through Primate Species.

ruveyn

I think crocodilians are the apex,they were here before the dinosaurs,they will be here after us.

My money's on insects. Particularly..........ants.

Humans are just hairless primates with a penchant for self-flattery.

Well then, you're going to lose big.

That would make us gods. And, even stranger, the creation would be superior to the creator. Or we could just co op it or merge with it somehow.

Meh.

I don't actually have enough money to lose "big." At most, I'm out $3.56.

Anyway, I'm on your side on this one, buddy. I, for one, am looking forward to you bringing Skynet online and kicking these puny humans in their collective, tail-less bums. My marshmallows are out. Let civilization burn.

Biologically, we're mid-level omnivores, not apex predators. We're ecologically dominant only because of our technology.

True, but, what I'm talking about is an artificial creature that is more intelligent than us and has access to all human technology that replaces humanity as the dominant species on earth. IOW: playing God.

I hope so.

We are already demi-gods. We can already build, create, destroy, and morph nature. We haven't been able to create something from nothing but maybe when our science matures in a few thousand years, we'll be able to. Knowledge will still relegate us to demi-Gods in the future because of the possibility for everything to go wrong or for technology to be misused.

I hope so.

We are already demi-gods. We can already build, create, destroy, and morph nature. We haven't been able to create something from nothing but maybe when our science matures in a few thousand years, we'll be able to. Knowledge will still relegate us to demi-Gods in the future because of the possibility for everything to go wrong or for technology to be misused.[/quote]

Even G-D had to learn to control Himself. You will notice that there have been no more World Floods and the disgrace of Sodom and 'Amorah has not been repeated.

ruveyn

lol yes. I know.

Interestingly, the text holds that God has tried to make a better world, by giving us a conscience which failed in the case of Cain, and by killing off all the bad people, which failed with the Flood.

The way we treat each other was the sin in the story of Cain, it was the sin in the flood account, and the text explicitly states that it was the sin of Sodom: its mistreatment of strangers. Mistreatment of others is what makes God fume with fury. We should take a hint, but that is what makes God's blood boil.

I do suppose if we could actually become Gods, then we would be indestructible because we would know all that God knew when he created the stars and the heavens as was exposed to Job, and we would have a higher moral reasoning, and thus could control ourselves or practice restraint.

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That reminds me of a line that occurs in several gothic horror movies such as Frankenstein.

There are things man was never meant to know, Viktor.

Viktor's response: It's alive! It's alive!

ruveyn

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, your proposition is only speculative.

All they would have to do is bring back raptors with a little human DNA tinkering and voila you got raptors with human intelligence![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTLjOAdckzM&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]