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Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution
movesguy sends us to The Daily Galaxy for comments by Stephen Hawking about how humans are evolving in a different way than any species before us. Quoting:
"'At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race,' Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, 'an external transmission phase,' where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. 'But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage,' Hawking says, 'has grown enormously. Some people would use the term evolution only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.'"
I see that Stephen Hawking is ill in hospital again.
They shut him down for an upgrade and when he rebooted, Norton AntiVirus had deleted his childhood memories.
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
Now, look at all the nations of Africa. The Africans produced nearly nothing, by comparison.
Evolution created a situation in which the Germans, the French, and the English have an IQ that is signficantly greater than the IQ of the typical African. The difference is about 20 points on a standardized IQ test.
IQ tests are not racist. So-called "White" IQ tests taken by Japanese folks also show that their IQ is approximately equal to "White" IQ. Japanese IQ is about 20 points greater than African IQ.
I thought he was an astro-guy, probing the heavens, and trying to prove that something (literally) could come from nothing so as to make God go away before he dies.
Where's this anthropologist been hiding all this time?
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Hawkins is right about the external store.... But the real change is when we began to code processes for computers. The interesting thing about books isn't that they exist, but that we can read something from 2000 years ago and continue processes defined by such texts.
The interesting thing about programs isn't that they exist external (like books), but that a machine reads something defined external to itself, perhaps from another country or time, and executes the processes defined by such tasks.
In the latter case, no HUMAN was required. We successfully built a mechanism by which processes can be defined and propagated without direct human involvement (other than supplying the computer, and putting it in touch with the software).
Suddenly I can have access to processes meticulously defined and tested by others without having to read a book or study or practice. I just load up a program and execute.
We have not only externalized the genetic store, as it were, but also the role of the organism in executing the processes.
He believes in Darwin's made-up half-wit crackpot theories so that's enough said.
You're confused and abusive. Let me help you out. He was referring to racial attributes, not nationality. Perhaps these concepts elude you, or maybe you just felt like sticking it to a honkey. Either way my brotha, you've blown your cover.
I have noticed that Liberals will always make double-standard excuses for the most egregious behaviors of their favored cultural demographics, i.e. anyone who is not male and European, and come down with the most sanctimonious outrage on similar behaviors by those who are unfavored. Europeans arrive in the New World and displace indigenous populations? Miserable, terrible, horrible Europeans, how could you have done such a thing? Indigenous Aztec populations subject tens of thousand of war prisoners to grisly death to appease the Sun God? It's a unique and attractive form of cultural and religious expression that is equally valuable to any of the creations of the Old World - but you just wouldn't understand.
Actually he did. He considered the scientific method and belief in spirits as equal, and belief in spirits is bunk.
Typical liberal arts nonce.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Let me get this straight .... you claim to be a scientist ... and then claim that the scientific method is junk?
Awesome. That's like your dentist saying "you know, I really have no idea what I'm doing here ... but let me go get my pliers".
This statement does not refute the original point: genes play a significant and substantial role in intelligence. "Significant and substantial" are defined in terms of the huge disparity of IQ results between Blacks and, say, the Japanese.
"Genetic diversity" does not equate to "maximum intelligence".
Note that the IQ of the Japanese is equal to the IQ of Europeans. The claim that IQ tests are biased in favor of White people is a lie.
Africa is a hell hole of morons. Pumping money into that continent in order to "save" Black people from their own ignorance is wrong -- morally and practically. We non-Blacks owe them nothing.
Note that Japan is a barren rock. From this rock, the Japanese created the 2nd richest nation on earth. What the fuck is the problem with Africans?
Who put Hawking in charge of the obvious?