:13:01
and we think that
we're understood,
:13:03
I think we have a feeling
of almost spiritual communion.
:13:08
And that feeling might be transient,
but I think it's what we live for.
:13:23
If were looking at the highlights
of human development,
:13:25
you have to look at
the evolution of the organism...
:13:27
and then at the development of its
interaction with the environment.
:13:31
Evolution of the organism will begin
with the evolution of life...
:13:33
perceived through
the hominid...
:13:36
coming to the evolution
of mankind.
:13:38
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.
:13:40
Now, interestingly, what youre looking
at here are three strings:
:13:44
biological,
anthropological--
:13:46
development of the cities,
cultures--
:13:48
and cultural, which is
human expression.
:13:51
Now, what youve seen here
is the evolution of populations,
:13:54
not so much the evolution
of individuals.
:13:57
And in addition, if you look at
the time scales that's involved here--
:14:00
two billion years for life,
:14:02
six million years
for the hominid,
:14:05
1 00,000 years for
mankind as we know it--
:14:08
you're beginning to see the telescoping
nature of the evolutionary paradigm.
:14:11
And then when you
get to agricultural,
:14:14
when you get to scientific revolution
and industrial revolution,
:14:18
you're looking at 1 0,000 years,
400 years, 1 50 years.
:14:21
You're seeing a further telescoping
of this evolutionary time.
:14:25
What that means is that as we
go through the new evolution,
:14:28
it's gonna telescope to
the point we should be able
to see it manifest itself...
:14:31
within our lifetime,
within this generation.
:14:34
The new evolution
stems from information,
:14:38
and it stems from two types of
information: digital and analog.
:14:40
The digital is
artificial intelligence.
:14:42
The analog results from molecular
biology, the cloning of the organism.
:14:46
And you knit the two together
with neurobiology.
:14:48
Before on the old
evolutionary paradigm,
:14:51
one would die and the other
would grow and dominate.
:14:53
But under the new paradigm,
they would exist...
:14:56
as a mutually supportive,
noncompetitive grouping.