The final beast

have a tentative theory. As far as evolution of species on Gaia goes homo sapiens are pretty much the final result. It is not because evolution which mean random mutation and natural selection will cease, but it will become insignificant in comparison to advances in human technology.

While the form of living organisms may seem complicated the fact remains that it is the result of evolution spanning over billion of years. While at present Human technology has many significant shortcomings as compared to nature, the advances have occurred in such a short time that in cosmological terms our modern civilization is less than blinking of eye. So where does that leave the humans. What will we finally evolve as? One answer is physically and psychologically perfect species of Einstein.

Probably! but why should advancement stop at that level. All said and done protein based life forms are fragile and can thrive in a very narrow scale of cosmological parameters. What if humans are able to download their personalities to computers? While it is better than protein based biology the severe disadvantage is that the reproduction is fairly difficult, and unlike protein based life form, it is not scalable from molecular level. What about Nano life forms? While it will solve the problem of reproduction, survival of Nano life forms will be some what analogous to protein bases life forms.

This brings us to the next question, why is reproduction necessary? The reason is that protein based life form being ephemeral, it is necessary to reproduce in order to perpetuate life itself. This will lead us to the meaning of life ofcourse ,but it is a philosophical conundrum so it can be postponed for further discussion. If life were to be based on such form, where it was immortal or near immortal, the problem of reproduction will be solved. How can this be achieved? Who knows ?

May be after million or billion years the humans will find a way to transform into pure energy form. May be we will continue in this flesh and blood, or may be humans will be extinct to be replaced by machines.