@@> HOLODECK #1:
 
    We enter the Holodeck and set for a 200 years future span...a
    random reasonable option we would only monitor....
 
     The deck lowers its synthetic visions into our lucid circuits....
 
     (((((...a way is found to inoculate the world by squeezing custom
     designed genetic sequences into airborn viruses. Unknown to the
     present science  "unseeable" subgenes code extra functions using
     an unknown micro language. Initially a universal inoculation against 
ome
     world wide family of diseases has recoded itself, the virus
     now rendering women capable of natural self pregnancy but only to
     produce women. Within a hundred years, men have all but disappeared
     as essentially of no natural value. Of course the male genome is known
     and can be downloaded from any library and CREATED as like one would
     now put together a ship model. Also "subgenetics" has been learned
     and mastered but there is no enthusiasm to correct for the original
     mutant. The world gets along just fine without men, reaching a very
     best beyond what any might dream of......))))))))
 
     NOTE: Nothing mentioned in this simple scenario is hard to imagine
           as possible!
 
        The HOLODECK sequence is over and we talk about it over a beer,
     What would the philosophers of history think of it all?   Would we
     (or they) wish to change such a future or let it happen as projected.
     Would Hegel and Plato be stunned with no God present? Would Nietzsche
     feel awkward to an all women world? ....Even perhaps a better world
     without men? Would be hard to ask women in a world lean of "female
     philosophers" Would it be that philosophy like religion may have
     prevented more social progress than it engendered?
     .........,Do you have a thought, or do you think the inquiry silly?
 
     Are these viable philosophical "WHAT IFs" and questioned "THEREFOREs"
     ...or is philosophy ever chained to the past? Can philosophy be used
     to probe the unknowable or is that another world of topics ???
     ...or is this more playing oracle? Philosophical prognosis through
     an abstractive Holodeck option to tie past and future YES-NO ???
 
                            @@ ... Dave
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