12-11-2007, 06:21 PM
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and i dont deserve to be here either with my fwked genes. but i'm here, so i make the best of it and have a blast.. but evolution-wise.. no. definitely not. but we were talking about love, right? no, it will not die.. not as long as i live, anyway  |
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12-11-2007, 08:29 PM
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sorry, I'm digressing. but I restate: no, love won't die. it's a fundamental force in this neck of the woods. |
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12-11-2007, 10:17 PM
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M'kay, since things always come in pairs... Who thinks it'd be possible for hate to die?
That'd be nice. |
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12-11-2007, 11:37 PM
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maybe that's the answer. if we ever evolve to the point where love is no longer possible, we will no longer be human. therefore humans will never evolve to the point that they can no longer love. the transformation to the "other" will have to happen prior to that moment. ipso fatso.
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12-12-2007, 02:26 AM
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from an evolutionary point of view, you lose something when it ceases to help you creating descendants. like those fish that took to living in caves and lost their ability to see, we would lose our ability to love if it ceases to help us. if we no longer had any dealings with our own children, the ability to love them would be redundant, and be lost. if romantic love ceases to lead to reproductive unions, it would also become redundant, and be lost.
if evolution is going to continue, people are going to have to get out there and have kids, so rather than adapting us to the social isolation offered by technology, selection could well favour those who can best resist it. evolution might just as well lead to people having far stronger desires toward physical social interaction. if birth control remains universally available, the sex drive might become weaker, as having lots of sex doesn't lead to having lots of children anymore, but the desire to actually have children might become stronger. anyway it all depends on what's going to happen. these days i'm not entirely convinced technological civilisation is here for the long term anyway. |
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12-12-2007, 01:40 PM
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12-12-2007, 03:45 PM
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12-13-2007, 06:52 AM
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 actually the ghost fish or pinkie fish, when put back into the light will grow eyes. So once developed there’s always something at rest waiting buried deep in the memory of our DNA waiting for the right switch. Regardless, of what the naysayers have in store I don’t think technology will destroy the whole of humanity, love or the earth. The greatest impact will be on our quality of life. Humans are remarkable at two things: adapting to situations and eliminating waste. The fact, at this late date, we are still at war around the world and have little care is a testament to that. We have and will forever stand on the razors edge when it comes to technology. The article predicts an H.G. Wells future scenario of a subterranean working race, and a complacent race that is meant for breeding and eating. Wells has been rather accurate in many of his predictions, but even in this story there seems to be a ray of hope in the end. Unless the earth is split in two by some strange unforeseen universal collision or all of humanity commits mass suicide at once human life will go on adapting and eliminating until the sun dies. Survival as a species is programmed in our DNA and will be difficult if not impossible to turn off or eliminate completely and probably why nature keeps teenagers in love stupid and necessary. |
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12-14-2007, 04:39 AM
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Love will never die.
It's stubborn like that. weedkiller? |
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12-14-2007, 07:49 AM
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^No thanks, just some tiny pruning shears.
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12-15-2007, 02:36 AM
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will hate ever die?
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12-15-2007, 03:32 AM
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**** no!
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12-15-2007, 02:46 PM
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waaaaaaa :)
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Read an article which sort of also had the future of love as topic, there isn't yet an English translation online, only the photo gallery which contains some of the statements made as captions. The main statement: Love will not die but both humans might prefer to love / have sex with hightech robots in the future - now, I dunno, sounds a bit unlikely to me... What do you think?
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12-15-2007, 08:12 PM
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ever read any of Asimov's caves of steel series?
he had some interesting speculations on the logical outcome of technological isolation. |
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