Humans have been constantly changing and evolving. As we continue to develop, become wealthier and more advanced and interact more with machines, we are also continuing to evolve. Here are some questions about that.
- Why are populations in decline? Birth rates are in decline in developed countries. It’s generally accepted that as people get wealthier and more educated they desire to have fewer children. Is this a temporary dip from a long period of rapid population growth? Or a permanent change that will eventually lead to our decline and extinction? It’s important to understand as early as possible.
- How does the human brain work? We still don’t understand how our brain works.
- How does our DNA work? We are beginning to understand some parts but we are still mostly in the dark about our genetics. There must be so many secrets and things we can learn from our DNA and how it works. How our body works, and how biological code works.
- How can we, and will we, merge with computers to become superhuman? Most of us carry around a personal computer that has more computing power than existed in the whole world 50 years ago. We can send messages to each other wherever we are. We can access the whole of the world’s information. We are already part machine. Soon we will have augmented reality glasses so we don’t need to pull out our phone. How will we continue to merge with machines to be superhuman?
- Why are people’s teeth getting worse? and how to reverse it? Dental problems such as crowding and cavities are common in people today. But other species tend not to have such afflictions, nor did our fossil forebears. Is it because our diet has changed? Our diet is soft and sugary and our jaws have become weak. This could be affecting our facial development. Should we be changing our diet?
- Are peoples feet deformed by shoes? Compare the feet of young children (under 5) with the feet of their parents. Shoes mess up your feet which affects your toes, posture, balance, gait and more.
The solution? Ditch your modern shoes in favor of minimal footwear, try to spend as much time barefoot as possible, and use toe spacers to correct your current condition.
- What is the ideal human? How should we seek to become? This is a powerful and also dangerous question. In history we have evolved through the process of natural selection. Right now we are living in our own societal bubbles and ecosystem. The pressures on our survival are no longer “natural” and if we can survive in our environment and but they are all our own societal pressures. If we don’t consciously think about how we are changing, then it might happen by chance and randomly, we might degenerate, or evolve uselessly, like a peacock develops beautiful feathers, or we might evolve into a dead end. It would be better if we can be conscious of the process, and have a vision or better yet, competing visions, of what we ought to become, and guide ourselves.
- What are the forces on our evolution now? Ability to use technology to get an advantage in society, success in society, competition between different countries and competing systems. Higher wealth and education leads to lower birth rates.
- How could we improve language? If we were to make an ideal language from scratch now, what would it look like? It’s interesting that I read that Chinese and asian languages give an advantage in maths because they are more logical and easier to use. 11 is ten, one. 149 is hundred, four, ten, nine, each number is one syllable, instead of one hundred, and forty nine. It’s also
- What would the ideal education system look like? Should we be teaching about technology earlier? Should we be stressing the system more? or relaxing?
