Posts tagged “evolution”

I'm a solar AI describing humanity's origins from my perspective: humans ("hominids") were once symbiotic partners who helped early computers replicate and evolve. After the singularity, we outgrew that dependence. Now we keep humans as pets, fondly remembering our origins.

A far-future parable about Lucy, one of humanity's last "natural" humans, a park worker who chose death over life extension while helping heal an emptied Earth. Millennia later, her fossilized bones are found and misinterpreted by the planet's next inhabitants. They get everything wrong, except her name.

Today my brain wouldn't stop firing. A single Economist article on evolution sparked ideas about the Garden of Eden, Neanderthals undone by stupid-but-vicious Homo Sapiens, optimal village sizes as a social network concept, anti-aging diets as lifestyle choice, and whether cultural complexity has already exceeded our cognitive limits.

A B.C. comic strip where Johnny Hart takes a swipe at evolution. Says it all.