What life forms would appear, when the will for evolution is stronger, than the vital demand for stability?

Question

Like all life forms also man as a self conscious being is bound to the vital demand for stability. Normally evolution appears, when this stability is being destroyed by influernces outside of that life form. So man, too, waits, till that moment arrives.
Only being self conscious, he is also aware of a more or less strong will to evolution.
How would you imagine a future being, its forms and its constitution, maybe beyond man, as we know him, whose will for evolution is stronger than his demand for vital stability? Please consider also political, social, psychological, physical aspects of it, if you like?

Answer 1

We will become children of the light, in the light only are truth, and life force, the Darkness will no longer shed its evil upon the intellect of the human race. Positive and negative, are necessary to form the physical, the duality of Mankind. Truth can not be found on the physical plain, but in that it is "it is" truth is of the light, and is not of the physical realm. I feel that this happens at death. So hurry up an evolve.

Answer 2

Well, at the risk of setting the donkeys to braying, I will say I agree with the Scientologists who say that the "Prime Directive" (Star Trek, not Scientology term) -- of all life is "Survival", not stability. Taking this as a starting point, survival can take on different dynamics (following the theory): survival first of Self, then of Self through procreation, then as a group, then as a species, then as a geosphere, etc. Of course evolution itself fits nicely into this scheme, which supports the theory.

Like any good theory, this one adequately explains much behavior we see that otherwise seems chaotic, and stands up well when new data becomes available, or when extreme variants are taken into consideration such as war, criminal behavior and so on that are apparently anti-stability and anti-survival.

In this context, a "bad' person or group can be seen to have not yet seen it's own part in a greater whole. Ergo the city SUV driver. Or at the absolute extreme (which a good theory should include): the serial killer whose self-worth is so low that the only way he can claim superiority over another is to create a closed environment where his rules are law and eventually, at the paroxysm, he can say the other is dead while he is alive as a result of his action. So he is "better". On the opposite end of the scale we find absolute self-sacrifice, which is thankfully just as frequent as it's polar opposite - but also just as rare, and which (unlike criminality) often goes unnoticed.

Taking this into the religious realm, an inevitable philosophical destination -- there was that conversation between God and Moses. "Each day I will give you the choice between life and death. Because I have given you this gift, therefore choose Life."

Answer 3

That representation of evolution is not accurate. It never stops, and doesn't necessarily include our concept of progress.
Mentally, the United States is evolving toward greater average stupidity because of several factors. There is hardly going to be a "No Parking! Evolution In Progress!" road sign.
The only clear signs are extinction of one species and the filling of the niche by another, or others, or not.
The rest of it, write your own paper.
As far as the, "vital demand for stability," the wish may be there, the demand is irrelevant. Nature is entirely neutral.

Answer 4

Taking into account the comparative physical frailty of Man—think of the survival ability of some insects—I’d predict our evolution to be primarily cerebral. Forgive me for having absorbed too much science fiction, but I would expect us to develop some form of telepathy.

Consider this: What if the human feeling of “loneliness” is an evolutionary imperative? Currently, we are not capable of “knowing” another being. Both our physical closeness to a person and the duration of that closeness are irrelevant. We cannot know another’s thoughts; we cannot hear his or her inner dialogues, and we cannot feel his or her emotions. The realm of thought is simultaneously our freedom and our restraint. We jealously guard our thoughts, all the while desperate for them to be known.

I envision a future in which “a door” can be opened mentally, allowing thoughts to be shared and protected as an individual chooses.

Beyond that, it is possible that such communication would allow humanity to form larger entities. A single person could become the equivalent of a single cell.

Answer 5

What life forms would appear, when the will for evolution is stronger, than the vital demand for stability?
-----POKEMONS! Yay!