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In the first stage of brain evolution there was only Instinct.
Animals had very simple brain which allowed them only to eat, fight and breed.
An alligator has only instincts.
Then they were evolved to mammals which have Emotions.
They formed societies and can live in groups and have feelings.
A dog has instincts and emotions.
Then humans came and they posses Logic (not very extended though).
Logic can find the cause of actions and predict their results.
I and you have instincts, emotions and logic.
So if we use our “limited” logic to predict the future what do you think will be the brain feature of the next generation species?

2006-09-20 03:44:24 · 5 answers · asked by Divra 3 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

5 answers

This can be looked at in a few different ways. It is fair to say that emotion is a reaction to instinctual actions, and likewise that logic is a reaction to understand emotional responses. The next step would be a reaction to logic. There are thousands if not millions of possibilities for what that could be, and in our current state, there is no way to really know. To say that logic-emotion is the end of evolution is just silly. We have the ability to expand ourselves with technology now further than biological evolution ever could. There is a strong possibility that the next step will be something along the lines of a public consciousness from a personal one. Emotion and logic have both been progressing steps in understanding from the previous, and the next steps will progress further. If there are steps in between now and a public consciousness then those will obviously come first, but it is impossible to see what is coming entirely without having the knowledge that we will have in the future. Ultimately, all we can do is guess at what will come next, and hope that we can make it through it without killing ourselves off.

2006-09-20 04:56:25 · answer #1 · answered by Scott L. 2 · 1 0

There will be no next step. Once a species possesses both Emotion and Logic, the process of natural selection ceases to function. The weak members of a population are supported by the strong and have the same opportunity to survive and reproduce as the strong. Humanity is an evolutionary dead end.

One may argue whether or not this is a good thing, but that's a different question and it'll cost you five more points to get my thoughts on that.

2006-09-20 10:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Steven S 3 · 0 0

magic lol think about it once we discover logic we can reason that everything excuse the corny-ness has a "life force" and if we can control that we have magic things that would seem impossible except even inamite objects have somthing akin to life... i know this might all sound insane but just stand really close to somthing and try to be calm and i swear youll feel this kind of force or attraction i think its mostly due to metals and magnetism but we could use that couldnt we?

2006-09-20 11:57:08 · answer #3 · answered by a perfectly contradictory cat 3 · 1 0

Immortality

2006-09-20 10:49:18 · answer #4 · answered by Baby_Apocalypse 4 · 0 0

Telepathy

2006-09-20 10:56:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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