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Originally Posted by jolenecollins  We don't agree on how we got here. Now here's the next question: What is the next step in our changing life? Whether we evolved from apes or God created man, there is no denying that we are rapidly changing. Our intellegence and desire to create and manipulate our environment has made us what we think of as the top of the food chain. But with that man has also brought greed, hate, anger, war and more. If technology is our current step in evolution, what will come next? We are using a lot of our newly found intellegence to hurt mentally and even kill eachother. What is 'Devine' about that? I would like to see a Utopia, or an understanding of eachother before my time is up.
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I love this question and hope you think my response remains on topic. I infer some things. What is the next step was not meant for us to see but to imagine it seems. Man can’t seem to walk down this path unafraid and so brings his age-old companion (his safety blanket).
Utopia isn’t for us, I think the movie The Matrix handled this so well, destined to be a classic. I believe we are progressive animals that need something to strive for. We are working toward some end, some design. Before we can learn to live with others, even you know who, we must learn to live with ourselves.
Man isn’t immutable. This is an experience we have been given for some (unacceptable) reason. We believe we are independent creatures and strive to be, but I think we are really interdependent ones. There are both mental and physical changes that have occurred to and in us. We refuse to look back and see how we were and so at this time and so we can’t see our future.
It's always been amazing to me that earlier then 14,000 years ago man (civilization) has been all but invisible but has unleashed him self with a fury in such a short period of time. This is what I see the future as, man evolving into his final self, what we might call himself. I believe we have a quality of residual memory to. That we are a species that may be programmed not only to retain but pass information into the future which itself may be built into the fabric of the universe. Truthfully I don’t know if it is evolution or mankind’s evolution we are talking about as they go hand in hand.
Is it the individual or the species that is more important? The answer to that has really been built into us something we learn. If in fact man did swing through trees, it's truly remarkable (to me) to think of our achievements compressed in such a short span of time. I think we will see any change in short order. I think one of the changes we will see is the expansion of certain latent abilities held in the gene, specifically dealing with the mind and therefore consciousness.
As evolution is a trade off of traits and such, it'll be interesting to see physical changes that will result as part of this process. For the most part our physical features won’t change (in the short term) but may be less appealing by today’s standards. It’s clear to me the mind is not the brain but it is the consciousness of man that has expanded I don’t think that will change. I don’t think it possible to regress only resist. As for the me, I am merely a part of that process.
Though I hope this is not a penal colony for fallen angels.
What is the next step in life? 
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