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<p>Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>< Deferring to your and Marcus' and other's optimism that we can and will outrun the consequences (or perhaps Marcus' fatalism that we as a species are "long of tooth" and perhaps deserve to bring the house down on our own heads?), I can *hope* that we will
find a phase change in the collective imaginarium around "human progress" not requiring that we continue to radically aberrate the current homeostasis of the biosphere. ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I was thinking of the possibility that some aspects of human intelligence would transform into a new physical form and be able to use less or different kinds of energy, tolerate different temperatures and/or more radiation, etc. I don’t even see that as
fatalism. How or if that will happen, I have no idea. Genetic engineering, neural linkage technologies, wafer scale machine learning systems? Actually calling me fatalist or nihilist is fine, just don’t call me an optimist! :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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