As a species we have no right to exist. Crocodiles have been around for over 200 million years, sharks, 400 million years. Humans have managed just 2 million years.
With issues such as the fast rise in the global population (8 billion and climbing), resource shortages, climate change, rapid technological innovation (including the prospect of Artificial Intelligence being able to supplant humans as the planet's cleverest thinker), the human race faces an existential challenge to its future.
The purpose of this site is to prompt thought about what is it, in the nature of mankind, that makes us so successful and yet so vulnerable to extinction.
- What were the environmental pressures that favoured us Homo Sapiens and how have they changed since the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic. Does our environment still act in our favour?
- We are empowered by our ability to uncover new knowledge and exploit it through new technologies. But if and when A.I. surpasses us in these abilities, what becomes the role of a Homo Sapiens?
- People seem to consider the natural world as being something different to the human world. Perhaps it is our 'self awareness' that causes this distinction to be made, in which case, when and how did this awareness come into being and what is the possibility of an AI developing one.