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two billion years for life,
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six million years
for the hominid,

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1 00,000 years for
mankind as we know it--

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you're beginning to see the telescoping
nature of the evolutionary paradigm.

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And then when you
get to agricultural,

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when you get to scientific revolution
and industrial revolution,

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you're looking at 1 0,000 years,
400 years, 1 50 years.

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You're seeing a further telescoping
of this evolutionary time.

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What that means is that as we
go through the new evolution,

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it's gonna telescope to
the point we should be able
to see it manifest itself...

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within our lifetime,
within this generation.

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The new evolution
stems from information,

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and it stems from two types of
information: digital and analog.

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The digital is
artificial intelligence.

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The analog results from molecular
biology, the cloning of the organism.

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And you knit the two together
with neurobiology.

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Before on the old
evolutionary paradigm,

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one would die and the other
would grow and dominate.

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But under the new paradigm,
they would exist...

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as a mutually supportive,
noncompetitive grouping.

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Okay, independent
from the external.

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And what is interesting here is
that evolution now becomes an
individually centered process,

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emanating from the needs
and the desires of the individual,

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and not an external process,
a passive process...

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where the individual is just
at the whim of the collective.

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So, you produce a neo-human with a new
individuality and a new consciousness.

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But that's only the beginning
of the evolutionary cycle...

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because as
the next cycle proceeds,

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the input is now
this new intelligence.

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As intelligence
piles on intelligence,

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as ability piles on ability,
the speed changes.

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Until what?
Until you reach a crescendo in a way...

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could be imagined as an enormous
instantaneous fulfillment of human,

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human and neo-human
potential.

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It could be something
totally different.

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It could be the amplification
of the individual,

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the multiplication
of individual existences.

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Parallel existences now
with the individual no longer
restricted by time and space.

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And the manifestations
of this neo-human-type evolution,

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manifestations could be
dramatically counter-intuitive.


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