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Posted by: Crossbowman 07/01/2009, 18:34:28  (About author)
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It kind of depends on your definition of "mankind". Obviously, Homo Erectus itself did not survive, and yet since it was their offspring that represented the evolutionary future, the "mankind" of Homo Erectus did survive into the future - just not as Homo Erectus. In a strictly literal sense, Homo Sapiens will not have survived either if we evolve into something else. We'll be something else at that point. So, what if our machines are OUR next step in evolution? What if we develop machines that emulate human thought processes? What if we develop machines that can design, construct, and improve themselves? What if we gradually find ourselves supplanted over time by our creations? Is "Mankind" restricted only to species Homo Sapiens? If our construct servants advanced to the point that they became our peers and equals, that we recognized their intelligence and their aspirations and their right to exist and interact with us as free individuals, if our construct servants evolved to the point that they took their place as equals in human society, could it not be said at that point that mankind had evolved beyond the animal? "Robbins’s claim fails because the Hobbs Act does not apply when the National Government is the intended beneficiary of the allegedly extortionate acts." WILKIE ET AL. v. ROBBINS. David H. Souter, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
with John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,
Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito concurring. |
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