Biotechnology: The only way humans can evolve further?

[☉Kud]

Ever since I started my prerequisite biology course in college this summer, An oddly profound thought had been repetitively resurfacing in my head about how maybe humanity has already reached their apex of evolution, and how we might not be able to evolve organically anymore. I'm not just talking about us becoming cyborgs and shit, but also about how our organic data might get converted into mechanical or digital data. My gut instinct tells me that some dude is gonna invent some piece of robotic nanotechnology that replicates the functions and processes of a cell. Or perhaps someone's gonna invent a way to transfer human consciousness into computers. Or maybe I consumed too much fictional sci-fi media... Or I'm just simply crazy...

I get it, I'm probably being schizo here, but it's one thing that frequently comes up in my mind when it comes to thinking about the future. So I might as well create this weird thread in hopes of documenting any irl findings of such phenomena happening, or stuff adjacent to such. Perhaps y'all can help too with such investigations if you'd like.

 

[charlie]

The current blockade in the progress of biotech is our understanding of consciousness. Once we have better consensus for our own constitution, we can begin to refine our quantum, biological and psychological models for new inventions.

With AI and everything blowing up over the last couple years, all you hear about is the thinking capacity of a computer; we don’t understand our own thinking so we can’t begin to claim our computers think until we truly understand how we think.

One notable example is precognition, where we seem to have some mental capacity to react to future stimuli. Someone mentioned to me on agora that Turing actually mentioned precognition when he was discussing his test for a computers ability to “think”. I’ll link it here along with a precognition study from a psychologist:

Turing Tests
Precognition Study

I think our understanding of the world precedes technological inventions, and that our understanding of the world still has a long way to go. Not sure how this relates to evolution. Perhaps our understanding of evolution evolves faster than we do.

 

[☉Kud]

The current blockade in the progress of biotech is our understanding of consciousness. Once we have better consensus for our own constitution, we can begin to refine our quantum, biological and psychological models for new inventions.

I think our understanding of the world precedes technological inventions, and that our understanding of the world still has a long way to go. Not sure how this relates to evolution. Perhaps our understanding of evolution evolves faster than we do.

I guess in terms of converting consciousness into digital data, I can see how the science behind such would need to reach further into the quantum area of things in order to develop the technology for that to happen, and I'm sure that'll take a darn long while. Idk much about quantum physics/mechanics so take my word with an entire shaker of salt. Perhaps we'd have to dissect the chemistry of the brain even further into shit that's smaller than the atoms of molecules within brain cells.

The form of humanity is also fundamentally imperfect, so there's a huge gap missing between creating stuff that'll transcend us to become perfect beings and the organic evolution in knowledge needed to fill in such a gap. What I sorta wanted to seek with this thread was to document findings of attempts at filling that gap, or more sensibly, small parts of it that would create leads for the rest of the missing space.