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I thought you would find this inspiring on a Sunday afternoon. It relates to David Pearces lecture and in a broader sense to all of the Technology and Future of Medicine course. From the influential 1998 book CONSILIENCE: THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE Edward O. Wilson amazon/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X wtf.tw/ref/wilson.pdf pages 302-303 in the last chapter To What End: Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. There is no genetic destiny outside our free will, no lodestar provided by which we can set course. Evolution, including genetic progress in human nature and human capacity, will be from now on increasingly the domain of science and technology tempered by ethics and political choice. We have reached this point down a long road of travail and self-deception. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. Our childhood having ended, we will hear the true voice of Mephistopheles.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:07:24 +0000

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