The Dawn of Superspecies?

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Are we just now about to cross the thresh hold into an era of Super Species where bio engineers manipulate DNA of various species, including ours, undergoing a process called cytoplasmic transfer, giving them a combination of enhanced abilities so they are more like gods than ever before? Will they alter the earth in ways we cannot even dream at the moment? Imagine several generations of humans with genetically enhanced, engineered super intelligence. It would be like myths coming to life.

And...could there be such a species already roaming the universe that has already enriched itself in this way? Maybe more than one?

Not for a long while yet.

They know a little of what each of the genes do, but they don't know as much about gene splicing as the media would have us believe. To steal from Spock, each gene combination offers infinite diversity in infinite combination. A single gene has multiple possible uses, and each use may be directed by other genes.

At best, we can look forward to another couple of decades with millions of mice and fruit flies giving up their existence to such studies.

But one day..... one day...

.................... real superheroes maybe?

I hope so.

I personally think it's almost the opposite. Nature is much more advanced than science at creating a synergy of traits in human evolution as that relates to both genetics and even epigenetics in one lifetime.

What is often seen as disability can actually result in incredible human potential, as a result of the intricacies of 'my GOD' millions of years of nature's way of survival for the fittest to make it to reproduce.

Culture AND science, if anything has made humankind overall much weaker and even less inherently intelligent as our ancestors of distant prehistoric past, who have the REAL FULL intelligence to actually survive and thrive in the wild; a skill that would blow most people's mind and yes body too, in a relative heart beat of existence out there in the REAL jungle of the wild.

The illusion is that our collective intelligence and complex language makes us smarter, where in reality, it truly makes us weaker overall, and yes dumber too, as what standard IQ measures of what can be the totality of wild human intelligence, is far from what human FULL potential can be.

And no, what I say is not without scientific merit, Yogi's who have managed to undomesticated themselves epigenetically in one life, DO incredible feats of what can be described as relative super human feats of REAL LIFE abilities.

Go ahead science give it a whirl; make us dumber than we are, even now.

But the good news is, science is finally catching up with the YOGI, so yes perhaps there is hope for the human race to survive after all, and not kill itself off, through weakness and TRUE OVERALL intelligence of disability instead of INTELLIGENCE of strength in both MIND AND BODY as one and same.

It's not necessarily an issue of what we could be, it can be more of an issue of what we CAN BE, IF PROPERLY CHALLENGED AND MOTIVATED FOR CHALLENGE to simply but EFFECTIVELY adapt for the REAL THING of life.

Yes, I agree with that, too.

so, if only one sentence were to survive the end of our civilization, let it be:
'all things are made of atoms, which are made of protons and neutrons, which in turn are made of quarks, and there's also leptons and gauge bosons and the higgs boson - that's how far we got.'

someone carve that into a clay pots, please.
Grayson Perry maybe.