Humanity and Willed Evolution

New methods of expression and dissemination of information that have emerged in the recent times that allow his nature as a force of improving the efficiency of his own development to more easily seen. Since intellection and expression of abstract ideas developed in man, this potential existed. From the articulations of philosophers and other thinkers in earlier periods of civilization, e.g. in Ancient Greece, it appears that, in many cases, humanity viewed the universe as something eternal. As soon as the idea of an origin arises, however, the idea that all things might have had a beginning, the idea becomes captivating. It is almost as if man had to develop the idea, and it took on its own internal force.

Once this notion is achieved, man will consider the idea of a variability of form following this origin, if only as a possibility. The idea of things having a beginning and of the state and quality of things being able to change moved from a mere logical possibility, however, to an assumed entity with its own power. Somehow, man arrived at the idea of a progression, that things can be changed for the better in some way. And just as statistical and biological forces cause changes over time in living systems that are beneficial with respect to preservation in some way, so can this happen for man in society, and even personally, in each man’s thoughts. And since man has a will toward his own survival, he can consider altering his own development. This may occur unconsciously, socially, or otherwise at first. But once 2 other factors are present, development can greatly increase:

1. man must decide that he can and will take his own development in hand,


2. man changes the material that development works on from a biological to an informational form.

One of the primary virtues of informational versus biological evolution is that selection in the former can occur independent of individuals. Death has a different meaning in such a context. During the current age, the rate of development in terms of information is much greater than that caused by biological change, mutations, etc. This causes a shift in the understanding of what forms and wholes are, what individuals are, what survival is, etc. Books, articles, networks, even conversations and the ideas that they foster become the new creatures that interact, and survive and reproduce or are destroyed. This change can occur much more readily than its biological analog, and, more importantly, it can be willed. Thus man forms a new medium for his development. It may even be possible for him to transfer all of his content, or at least all of the intellectual content he wishes to preserve, into a non-biological form. He may be able to achieve a manifestation completely based in information and not matter. In this way he could alter his form in any way he wished with extreme rapidity.