Virtual Evolution
Virtual Evolution Evolution: The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces-in nature, in society, in man himself. ... So are we becoming posthuman, or is this evolution. ... Teilhard imagined a stage of evolution characterized by a complex membrane of information enveloping the globe and fuelled by human consciousness. ... He said that humans had pretty much reached the end of biological evolution the way Darwin saw it. ... ‘Man discovers that he is nothing more than evolution become conscious of itself. The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself’. The direction of evolution then, was towards a growth in consciousness.