I'm curious Mr. Bonsignore why you just didn't post your little article
instead of requesting others look it up on the internet. Were you
possibly concerned it wouldn't get posted in this moderated group? I
don't know if our moderator would have allowed it but it is certainly
junk, shorn of any scientific pretense or actual value. Your "article"
"Future of Man: the Speciation Process" is irrational, grotesque and
tinged with rambling incoherency. It is befitting a bizarre grotesque
brutalized fantasy novel. Let's hope there aren't any young "Hitlers"
out there enthralled by your "Future of Man: the Speciation Process".
You're few minutes of time are hopefully exhausted.

[moderator's note: I have to agree with Michael; at the time I could
not fire up a browser so I took a chance, and of course I now regret
having done so. My apologies to the readers. - JAH]

Michael Ragland  

Future of Man: the Speciation Process
 by fbonsignore{at}[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabrizio J. Bonsignore) Sep 14,
2004 at 09:34 PM

That Evolution is stopped in relation to Reason doesn`t mean that the 
basic definition of the human species is not changing, only that this
change is so slow that for practical purposes is irrelevant. And yet the
basic requirements for the speciation process in Man are already given. 

There are, not only geographical barriers to cross breeding but also
sociopolitical ones. In fact, each national state is in itself a melting
pot where one of the possible futures of Man is being born. 

There are strong barriers to cross race procreation. How long before
those barriers turn from social to biological ones? Strictly speaking,
the Down syndrome children are *already* a different species; a
different number of chromosomes which, if allowed to interbreed will
eventually lead to a totally different species, unable to procreate with
`normal` humans. 

Exactly what space of possibilities in the Reality of biological beings
will they be exploring, quite literally only they know. To many people
they are indeed special, and that speciality might in te future reveal
in interesting ways if a population of them is allowed to form and
develop for itself. 

Even is Reason is the defining characteristic in the human species
doesn`t mean that it must remain so for the unforseeable future. Whole
populations can be interbreeding to select, from a social (mores,
prejudices) point of view, characteristics that emphatize not an
increase in intelligence but a decrease, an involution. Nowhere says or
is written that intelligence as we know it must remain in the definition
of the species. Though language very probably will remain a basic
characteristic of future humanities (too useful to ignore), different
roles for it may develop accordingly to other biological characteristics
and different humanities may grant it a bigger or lesser importance in
their everyday behaviour (there are societies that read an write little,
while others dedicate lots of resource to verbal and/or written
communication). DNA is a language that changes in subtle and almost
continuous way, give the enormous quatities of information that go in
the definition of an individual. 

Unfortunately, this speciation process is such that it introduces
tensions in the human family. By its mere definition, the speciation
process can lead to wars and other social unrest among Nations. That we
be able to manage this divergent differences peacefully is one of the
most challenging aspects of the future of Man... 

"It's uncertain whether intelligence has any long term survival value.
Bacteria do quite well without it."
 Stephen Hawking
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