[ExI] Islands of trans-humanity

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Hmm, I think I've read about something like that, in one or more science 
fiction books. Sadly they did not leave enough of an imprint for me to 
remember the names of them. And the fact that the divergence was so big as 
to have created separate species was not the main plot, but just a 
parenthesis.

As for the fate of humanity, depending on what "go to completion" means, 
I'm voting for many, many more centuries and not decades.

Best regards,
Daniel


On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:

> " next few centuries of transhumanism,"
>
> I doubt this.  Whatever the fate of humanity is, it will go to
> completion within decades, not centuries.
>
> Keith
>
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 1:43 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> I doubt this is a novel train of thought... but...
>>
>> One of the more interesting ways that transhumanism could be "bad" is
>> the idea that over the next few centuries of transhumanism, different
>> "species" of human could rapidly evolve (though not through natural
>> selection, unnaturally) into islands of trans-humans that can no
>> longer interbreed. By creating this rapidly dividing delta in the
>> river of hominid divergence, it could create interesting dynamics of
>> "us" and "them" which could lead to a destructive fragmentation of
>> society.
>>
>> I welcome science fiction along these lines...
>>
>> -Kelly
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