If we are to seek a destiny beyond our own bodies and our home planet, we must also be prepared to transcend. At the outset, such transcendence may be immensely glorified by our own cultural memes as being done for superhuman feats and power. However, there is a much deeper and more practical form and reason to our transcendence. It is our basic instinct to survive. Although there may not be an immediate predator or an incredible threat, we as an intelligent species must evolve in order to exist.
We have become capable of traveling vast distances with our tools of transportation even though we do not share the anatomy of the birds that adorn our skies. We have managed to speak and amplify our immense array of vocal communication beyond the vibrations of our throats, across the entire planet and even out to outer space. We can sense and perceive global events as information while physically remaining in one place.
Just about 10,000 years ago, we were hunters and gatherers who knew no agriculture. And yet today, we are contemplating global implementation of genetically modified food to overcome our food crisis. Cockroaches and Locusts have always foraged for food in different locations for all these centuries. However, we have managed to move on from foraging for food to our current status of agriculture.
If the human species survives for another 10,000 years, one is only left to wonder whether glycolytic or other metabolic pathways of obtaining that precious adenosine triphosphate from food would be required at all. We might directly generate energy much like the current autotrophs or even better, become energy itself! We are now contemplating the next stages of our evolution as a species to ensure survival, both on this planet and into the known and unknown parts of the universe. As we contemplate our destiny amongst the stars, we must also observe what we really are. In the movie The Matrix, there is a very chilling dialogue between the human, Morpheus and Agent Smith the artificial intelligence:
I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
Article comments
1 - duane
This is really a mess V.R. Sorry, but you're trying to cover too much. It's not coherent.
2 - Raga
It sounds like you are searching for answers to questions raised by modern science and philosophy. Might I suggest that you look into Matrixism. Matrixism is a religion/philosophy based on modern science. It draws from the movie The Matrix as well Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Island.