• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Until you consider medicine and technology to be part of the aggregate evolutionary progress

    No, that stuff is memetic instead of genetic.

    You can say it’s human society evolving, but it’s not humans evolving.

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      1 year ago

      I think there is a strong argument that we have been post human since we developed writing and that a ‘person’ encompasses more than just their meat sack. I was first introduced to this idea by the book Natural Born Cyborgs. You are taking a narrower view of the word evolution, but I’m not totally sure it’s justified.

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      1 year ago

      I can see the argument that it’s part of the evolutionary advantage conferred by bigger brains, vocal chords, and opposable thumbs.