Post-Human Species
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2021
- As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species.
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Post-Human Species
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 287, April 22, 2021
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Writers:
Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern
Editors:
Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com/creator - Наука та технологія
So genetically engineered catgirls are inevitable. I always knew.
I'm waiting for a fox/wolf girl
And their granddad may in fact be a real cat and whose cousin is a sapient toaster.
Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore space with a genetically engineered catgirl.
Welp, time to call in the Inquisition.
@@evilkatos Not necessarily, I'll check back in 1000 years, if your still here then let me know
*Kids 100 years in the future*
My favorite philosopher from the 21st Century is Isaac Arthur.
I really hope that happens. That Isaac Arthur is seen as one of the great, 21st century philosophers.
He truly is making history
@@L_mattox that's why I try to spread this channel as much as possible. I want a world full of wide-eyed futurists
I hope anthropologists study this bizarre worship of UA-camrs someday
"And then you have to explain that the cat is actually your grandma and the electric car is your cousin"
- Isaac Arthur 2021
Those videos are getting wild.
Isaac Arthur predicting genetically engineered catgirls?
Sure, why not.
@@GleichUmDieEcke At this point, it's such a pervasive meme, that the only way it won't happen is if it somehow turns out to be impossible.
And I thought MY family was weird.
And your granpa? Shane dawson!
The slice-of-life family sitcoms of the future are going to be amazing.
"We are the Borg. Your alimony will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. The kids say hello."
Me, a tentacle monster, watching that video with the tags *hatef@ck* and *assimilaters* tags.
I see you met my ex !
Not funny, I was married to a Borg once. Resistance IS futile. Escape the only hope.
@@wetcat833 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@backwardsman8887 death guro isn't guro, it's zombie transformation. Why it doesn't move? Pictures don't move.
"My stepbrother complained that my grandmother left muddy footsteps and a half-eaten mouse on his hood." ... I love this channel because of these weird ideas I get from just listening. ;)
I'm SO ready for the post-human family sitcoms
_Rick & Morty_ *intensifies*
That's just Dinosaurs with extra steps
I agree, someone give Don Hertzfeldt money so he can make The Sampsans happen for real: ua-cam.com/video/6i2l-LQ-dXI/v-deo.html
now back to my uncle the toaster! on the floggle network... floggle... its crimpadochous!
My grandfather was a wheel, you know! One of the first wheels! And you know what he transformed into?! NOTHING!! BUT HE DID SO WITH PRIDE! WITH HONOR! WITH DIGNITY! AND...
I'm telling you; this guy didn't age too well.
"And thanks for all the fish", -Your dolphin professor
'claiming to be the true descendent of humanity'
MOISTURIZE ME!
Am I the only one that hated that movie?
@@backwardsman8887 it was a series of books. Read the books. They are fantastic.
@@yippeeyokai5750 Yeah I know, the genre of silly scifi isn't really my thing.
@@backwardsman8887 Then you are a Troll.
Just imagine living for millions of years and your partner is a "human" who's grandad was a super smart cat and who's brother is a a.i car. Welcome to the future.
You will long for the days when family was regular people like the Addams or the Munsters.
@@annoyed707 Actually no. The description of that family made me quite happy. What does it matter the form that embodies consciousness so long as it's happy? Each of those diverse viewpoints enriches the collective. It sounds great to me.
Damn
Humanity: Homo Sapiens and all of their progeny, organic or inorganic, evolved or created. Now grab your gun, there's some _actual_ aliens that need exterminating.
This would be one hell of a sitcom
I'm already a desert dwelling cyborg. I half exist in the internet and then come to earth to hunt and eat. It's actually pretty surprising how easily theses two worlds come together.
I'm a cyborg too. A decent amount of my left arm is made of metal. It's a real pain sometimes.
Holy shit, that's deep
@@josephedmond3723 So is this an imprompt cyborg party?
Cybernetic-Wolf-Ninja types allowed at this ball?
About to have surgery to give my legs an alloy plating.
@@coyotestylepro1150 You know what? Why not? The age of primitive meatbags is over.
@@aleinbanger9942 that what she says about her cyborg boyfriend.
Cyborg cat girls to conquer the galaxy!
Oh please they too immature to do that on their own. The cat girls will need our guidance when we go to the stars. This goes triple for the cat boys since they're so passive in comparison to their female counterparts.
@@marrqi7wini54 you dont know. might be a 400 hundred year old superintelligent cat girl...*looks around shiftily*..im not tryna justify anything! you're tryna justify! what were we talkin about...
I for one welcome our new catgirl overlords.
@@Briggsby we're talking transhumanism here. We don't have to create the catgirls, we could *BECOME* the catgirls.
I'm gonna BREED ALL DAY with my TOASTER WAIFU and there's NOTHING you can do to stop us.
lol
Did someone say Toaster? *Galactica FTLs in*
That toaster was my auntie on Red Dwarf.
For THE OMNISIAH
Congratulations... It's a... servitor...
Would you like to hold the.. uh... cpu?
Writing prompt: gift of the magi where an AI takes human form to be with a human lover while the human uploads to be with the AI.
Cool idea!
Pretty sure a plausible outcome would be two new happy couples. One in cyberspace, one in meatspace.
Uploading, etc. is copy/paste, not cut/paste. 😉
HA! It took me a moment to realize you were talking about the O. Henry story. I read "gift of the magi" and thought your AI was taking human form as a born baby in a manger under a star to redeem humanity's sin. :-) BTW, there's a Twilight Zone episode like this called The Long Morrow, where the day before a decades-long mission, an astronaut falls in love with a woman who will be old when he returns. So he stays out of the cryo sleep so that they can be together when they old, and she has herself cryo frozen on Earth, and they end up not together.
@@misanthropichumanist4782 Haha! Could be! But if I'm getting uploaded, my meatmoji has to be dissolved in a strong base.... for DRM reasons.
@@jerrysstories711 I remember that one! Not really related, but I've been telling everyone: I just read the other day that the ending to the original Planet of the Apes movie differs from the book when it ends with the whole Statue of Liberty thing on the beach. That twist ending in the screenplay was written by Rod Serling!
@@jerrysstories711 I was just thinking of that!!!
The fact he tells us to grab a snack really shows he knows his audience.
He knows we're all suffering from the Munchies 😉😏
He's been saying that from the beginning because videos used to be an hour and a half
@@KManAbout I miss those long videos so much. They were more interesting than movies.
I never grab a snack :(
@@wesleypaddock3416 totally, and definately 10000000× more interesting than Hollyweird movies.
A bottle of scotch and a camp fire listening to Isaac talk and to be able to pick his brains. A perfect evening
Don't know about scotch, but Isaac + weed is definitely perfect and mindblowing lol
@@aleinbanger9942 if you can remember🥴
So the way this is written I thought of a sentient bottle of scotch and a sentient campfire listening to Isaac and picking his brain lol
Ah I need to try this. I usually listen to him while driving.
@@aleinbanger9942 or that.
The chances are small, but I hope that I live to see the beginning of the transhuman era. Something about being a cyborg living on an icy moon surrounding the gas giants just sounds so cool
As Donna Haraway said in the Cyborg Manifesto - instead of the ridgid box if species the future will have kin and kind. Transhumans and posthumans living in a complex system where they rapidly cross and differentiate
Your naivety is disturbing. It'll be more akin to the Borg.
..and why would anyone want to live on an icy moon?
@@Difficultfuckhead What exactly am I being naive about? The Borg is a fictional concept. I don't see why I need to take it seriously
literally cool, considering the temperature of those icy moons...
Read Neal Asher's Polity series, you're welcome.
"Something like a cat-human hybrid"
*Cloister the Stupid enters the chat*
We are all post-human species on this blessed day
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@@caiolimacaldas they lied.
@@unitedspacepirates9075 who lie ?
@@caiolimacaldas video was authentic interrogation.
@@unitedspacepirates9075 but a man called Meni Stirbas admitted he was responsible for this video.
Isaac Arthur you are a treasure to humanity and I'm glad to be your contemporary fellow!
You know sometimes I forget Life still has hundreds of billions of years ahead of it. An amount of time difficult to even conceptualize. The only way we as individuals could even live a million years would be some sort of afterlife or some equally miraculous scientific discoveries.
What if I told you both already exist..?
Living a million years will get boring I think
@@kerbodynamicx472
How silly. Boredom is for the young. As you get older you just accumulate more and more to occupy your mind and your time until you end up feeling like there's simply not enough hours in a day and years in your life. If you survive a million years I am sure you will have accumulated a billion years of experiences and goals you wish to undergo.
I hired a company to upload my intelligence to a computer. The sales guy did a scan, and told me a 2 GB flash drive should be enough. (Thank you for more mind-food Isaac!)
Wow only 2GB? Either they've got some amazing compression algorithms, or... your intelligence is rather extremely efficient. Either way, impressive!
@@kittybeans8192 Speaking as someone in the business of data protection, a backup that can't be restored is not a backup. 2GB of data's just a verbose obituary.
The idea of restoring a person off 2GB reminds me of the way dinosaurs were brought back in Jurassic Park. They would have to fill the gaps with what looks right. The T. Rex didn't mind, and I'm sure the restored Monty Burns should be happy with the results, in that he'd be alive.
A real T. Rex might not recognize a Jurassic Park creation as being the same species, but the new one would care very little about a 66 million year predecessors hypothetical opinion. If some part the restored Montgomery Burns would sense a difference or be bothered by one...well, that part of him doesn't have to be restored. Voila: satisfaction guaranteed.
I don't think that's quite enough, might be a redundant copy of basic structure, and with enough knowledge of how neurons work, you might have a redundant working copy, a ghost if you will, of the original, but it would not be you.
The piece-by-piece replacement of the brain with full continuity, taking benefits from neuroplasticity and _Fuzzy Logic,_ might be the best solution in near future, as visioned by the inventor of _Fuzzy Logic_ Bart Kosko in his (only?) fiction book _Nanotime._
Just my opinion, now, I was brought up believing that the human brain is the most complex object that we know of. 2GB might be enough of storage but it's nothing compared to the processing power needed to run a full simulation of cognitive mind.
@@kittybeans8192 Neither, unfortunately. I'm a lowly meteorologist. I'm only good at forecasting weather, (most of the time). There just isn't that much "data" in my noggin. LOL
@@nkordich Yes. But I figured that out after I paid the guy. Dang. LOL
nothing like some SFIA with a fresh pot of coffee to start the day!
Nothing like some SFIA with fresh pot to get the imagination going ;)
Nothing like a SFIA video to fall asleep too
Lol for real🤣
There are groups that can help you with this compulsion.
A good option for boring exercise like static cycling. Improve your body and mind at the same time!
You put out some awesome videos. Like how you break everything down in terms of what is ACTUALLY required to accomplish a lot of our future goals.
If I were a world leader, you'd be on my team.
He has so much wasted potential
If I were a world leader I’d A, offer him an official philosopher title and B, be a dictator.
Better yet, a *colony,* (a new world) leader!
as always, Isaac's closing words bring a tear to my eye
I've been wanting 'habitat design' for a while; have to slog through another month before we get 'arcology design'
re: species
We had a savanna cat, is the result of the intentional crossing of house cats and serval cats. Similarly, the bengal cat is a cross between the Asian leopard cat and house cat. The offspring of the pairings are fertile, though often less so.
Hi Isaac
Thankyou for all ur work. Ur videos really help me with anxiety.
Being taken out of the day to day stuff and exploring the universe.
Cheers
Is this brettreager
Nup:)
I literally dance after seen the names of the future episodes!
Aliens watching this channel in secret: *"WRITE ALL OF THIS DOWN! WRITE IT DOWN!"*
The "post-human family" descriptions makes me want to see an updated version of The Jetsons. Hear me out. They live in a post-scarcity civ, in shiny towers far above the polluted surface. Astro is an uplifted canine capable of basic speech and wondering why he doesn't have the rights and freedoms of the humans. Rosie the servant/nanny robot is in the same boat, curious about the outside world but compelled by her programming to serve, nurture, and obey. Judy is a teen coming into her own and secretly getting trendy new cybernetic implants at the mall that her parents don't approve of and trying to cultivate rebellions streak in Rosie who she sees as oppressed. George is the distraught father of the family, reliant on anti-depressants in a world where father figures are considered obsolete work is a just token tasks given to humans to keep them occupied. Jane is the person functioning best in the world that provides everything but a sense of purpose. When George gets curious enough to break the law and descend from the towers to the surface, he discovers humans oblivious to the world above, who live in a low-tech society among resurrected semi-intelligent dinosaurs slaves. George Jetson ikes the Flintstones very much and seriously considers relocating to the surface to live among them.
To think about how humans will be and behave due to the future of research and technology is rather fascinating. I of course hope we use it for the right reasons and all love in harmony
I see our bodies becoming marvels of autonomous reflexes, regenerative redundancies, borrowed evolutionary tricks, applied instincts, and overlapping reinforcements groomed to keep people smiling and metabolizing everything from arctic methane to deep tropical nitrogen, able to wander the airless moon with panache on their way to the party dome.
Yup. Genemods, longevity can really make a kid to meet their grandmother in the form of cybered near-immortall but literal cat. Hillarious thing to explore.
Thoughts on the Island of Stability?
First time I've ever been able to catch one of your presentations almost as you've released it
"Aggressive recruitment" aka "assimilation"... I for one welcome our robot overlords.
It could also go the Psycho-Pass route in where the hivemind only invites in humans or the like with very different viewpoints than it's own to better expand and diversify it's intelligence while ignoring everyone else
@@smokeemifyougotem9662 Oh great, so I've been rejected by women my whole life only to be rejected by a machine? That's depressing. I rather like that idea though, surely I'd qualify....😬🤞
@@Rattus-Norvegicus In Psycho-Pass only asymptomatic criminals were recruited, aka psychopaths incapable of even registering their actions as being wrong, thus unable to be judged by the system and so invited to join the system, an exception being Akane (the protagonist) who was invited after both having a clear conscience and challenging the system again and again getting it to change it's outlook on things thus earning it's respect.
@@smokeemifyougotem9662 a _Borg_ by any other name would assimilate as well as expected... 😅
I may be a time traveler ;)
You might be
Wait what
Well, why didn't you come to my party tomorrow?
In the behalf of this time, i apologize
We're all time travelers, just we're all going the same direction at the same approximate rate
I think that all these changes will happen slowly enough (from a human pov) that acceptance that the cat you've been petting is your grandma will just happen organically. It would only seem jarring or shocking if you just popped in from the past, aka now.
Depends.
When we talk about gene editing and cybernetics. We’re talking about rapid artificial evolution.
Think about all the boomers today who don’t understand shit about the new world they live in.
We could be the boomers several decades from now. We could be absolutely shocked when suddenly super intelligent genetically modified cats just show up.
It is a little dated, but look up “The Gentle Seduction” by Mark Stiegler.
Or met up with an entirely different "clade" you've never met before, and had not heard broadcasts from their habitats to learn, to adapt to their divergent culture and needs...
Isaac, why do I have this feeling you got the idea for this video after watching Doctor Who New Earth?
For example the human race was totally diversified in 5,000,000 in the future, where the only true human left as Cassandra(looking like a hide drying on a frame) , and the Sisters of Plenitude were cat humanoids?
Moisturize me!!
Also don't forget Jack, the face of Bode.
@@TheRainHarvester indeed, still a whole lot of questions there...
4 minutes ago? Sweet!
Computers could be used to find out what classes could in turn emerge out of mammals.
I'd love to see you on Event Horizon again or maybe another collab with JMG. My two favorite science futurism channels and narrators combined in a single video is just heaven.
Scott Manley? Fraser Cain? Anton Petrov?
We just *NEED* a full panel collaboration with those guys with Godier and Arthur!!
And of course invite Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku, Brian Greene, etc.etc.
Watched it on Nebula yesterday, a really cool vid. Good work guys.
Fuck Yeah! Now this is a video I'm interested in. Can't wait to watch it.
LOVE IT!! Keep the good content coming IA!
Thank you! Haven't watched it yet, but the idea of "humans" star trekking the universe exactly as we are until the end of time always seemed ridiculous to me.
Same. By the time we're "star trekking" as you put it, I always imagined that those best suited for such activities would be at least a few of generations old having lived in space. Probably similar to the belters portrayed in The Expanse, not a new species necessarily but distinct from the generations who have lived under significant gravity.
There's a (non-Star Trek) novel I remember that I used to love that dealt with this through the lens of a timely* story told though the perspective of a single immortal, but unchanging, protagonist,
a scientist who found a means for immortality, by a faux stasis of one's own biological processes,
but ended up lamenting his experiences "at the end,"
overseeing the end of humanity as he knew and understood it,
having been essentially rendered obsolete (perhaps even it could be said he and his fellow throwbacks were relegated to a role of a zoo animal?)after a while
as no matter how vast his mind and knowledge base were(initially, eventually he encountered an "incline," mental, cognitive, technological, and cultural, a "hill" that he was metaphorically climbing, one that grew steeper and steeper and steeper still), still human in(/by "virtue" of the) nature of his own time,
framing and limiting his potential
for growth, for evolution..,
his ability for retention and creation and comprehension of new ideas, concepts,
truly new* concepts, concepts and ideas, notions born from new perspectives on living,
not just from having those experiences of living in a given time frame,
but by being a product thereof...
until eventually futures sciences and concepts were no longer within his still (earlier-) human mind... living him and a handful similar obsolete lifeforms, his fellows mortal as they were, but just as limited in scope in application, in viability, in usefulness to a new "species" of humanity...
And then there's another more uplifting(no pun intended) story that I always recall in conjunction with this one,
one that talks of evolution of our machines
and then their creations, their own "offspring" machines in turn, (and so on and so on),
each a factor, a magnitude higher, more complex, and more vast and all encompassing of the previous ones, much like we are to a first bacteria now they were in succession to each other, but still retaining their nature as we retained key of our organic (for the moment) nature, physically and metaphorically...
with each new godlike machine-mind still dedicated to protecting and helping the humanity, now in its care,
but really just as much as we ever were "in the care" of (and dependent on, as a technological(by definition, by nature, and therefore always inevitably artifice focused, artificial, synthesizing.., "cybernetic," system(s)- ((neuro-)computational-) science(s) inclined) species, as opposed to some other more "organically" -inclined species, aliens included) our tools...except now that our "tools" were our friends and mentors and could take care of themselves and even improve beyond our perception and cognitive conception of what is ot can be done...
even to the point of waging a "war" on our behalf,
where we stood no chance against otherwise superior alien invaders our machines and machine piloted spaceships and guided weapons fought off the invasion and consequent attacks, preserving us until our evolution caught up to take us with them...wherever to whatever...
akin to The Last Question novel's ending... "letting there be _'light_"
@@Mewithabeard ironically they did broach that subject even back in the 20s and all the way through to the 60s, and so on, with Heinlein's and Bradbury's and Egan's works...although for them it was mostly a way towards avoiding censure on social commentary, at least for the most part...
_Babylon 5_ did imply that there's evolution at work in the cosmos/galaxy, both natural *and* (eventually) artificially guided(with certain mutual understanding given between factions, for the most part, about non-interference, without some excuse at least...although in the end it seems some amconclusons are always reached...similar to Catalyst(?) discourse at the end of _Mass Effect 3_ game's story, the A.I. overseeing the Reapers' (perhaps referencing the concept of reaper program(ming) ...of periodic selectively enforced "darwinism") "solution" ...regulated, enforced "non-interference" ...with both lesser species and specifically due to the commonality? of the inevitable? conflict between synthetic(creations) and organic(creators) life) for more ephemeral and mysterious species, but that it takes far longer to reach that* stage from where we are at, as for the humans specifically,
one episode in particular (dealing with time travel, because of course) seemed to have implied a timescale of nearly a million years' worth of development until we reach a comparable stage/state, despite evidently already exhibiting a few far more evolved(at least psychically) individuals, but that that too was an emergent and dirrusptive issue for the society.., much like most comprehensive or radical or infrastructurally critical technology(R&D, applied or even if only theorized...as is exemplary of & by the post- Renaissance years and periods) was for our history... from toolwork, to agricultural knowledge to industrial revolution, synthesizing chemicals, transitioning of chemical understanding to nuclear, and more systemic, systems- sciences, cognitive, neural, cybernetics, and other synergy -effective and interdisciplinary -borne concepts and areas of study, furthering our understanding...including that of how to better understand and learn and adapt, and safely study our dangerous, turbulent, tumultuous world
Last time I was this late, a post human probed my mind, wondering what was wrong with me!
Love the content in these videos by far my favourite site
Loving this one! Reminds me of the vastness of sophontology(sic?) subjects within the Orion's Arm universe project!
OA is best sci fi. What's your favorite sephirotic? Mine's the Red Star M-pire. :)
@@thegreatdream8427 my favorite archailect is the one that went rogue/mentally ill, i wish i could remember the name! the article was written so well, from my recollection. but it's a really slow day at work so that gives me a good excuse to browse through OA for an hour or two
@@jays2551 There’s a bunch that did that. Do you mean the one where it basically froze everybody in place in stasis? Or the one where it forcibly uploaded all the inhabitants of its star system? Or....
@@Barabel22 lol yeah reading through the list of archailects for the past couple hours, that's become immediately apparent. their godhood is more like greek pantheon godhood in terms of their various insanities lol. the one i remember ended up commanding its followers to build increasingly rube-goldbergian structures and megastructures that made absolutely no sense but everyone kinda went with it because, hey, it's an ai god and you can't exactly say no
@@Barabel22 there's also the one that's based on some kind of devil-like figure that constructs personal hells for sophonts for some reason, that's a fun one. satan as an archailect :D
Your production value continues to improve and entertain. Thank you for sharing these visions.
I love waking up to a new isaac arthur video!
Somewhere out there there's a weeb watching this video hoping Issac will bring up how to create anime catgirls.
That weeb is you and me.
well what else is genemodding for OwO?
Maybe the real weeb is the friends we made along the way
@@firstlast5454 so everyone I befriend is a weeb? Dammit, if only I could make more friends.
We are legion
Big fan since my first gen clone received initial programs.👉👁️👈
Great video! We need WAY more content on speciation and transhumanism in general. 😁
I've been waiting so long for this video!
I love this guy. I wish you and Mrs. Arthur the absolute best in life.
This is both amazing and terrifying.
Great episode!
Humanity will do more than merely radiate into a Genus, an Order and a Class of our own. We will define a new Kingdom, create new Kingdoms, and establish a new period of the planet's history as we mark off the Anthropocene as the last part of the Cenozoic and begin the Anthropic Epoch to follow the Azoic and the Zoic.
Create new species and classes of organisms by calculating possible branches of evolution.
@@Fridaey13txhOktober The Anthropic Epoch is noted for being the part of the Universe's existence which is marked by the existence of Humanity (and our descendants) within it.
Once we break out into the Cosmos, nothing will be the same, ever again.
3 major peeves of mine that I got with this episode specifically.
0:10 The first mammals date back to around 200 million years ago, not 300 million years ago like you said. For context, 200 million years ago was during the beginning of the Jurassic, part of the age of Dinosaurs, while 300 million years ago was before Dinosaurs even existed; Reptiles had only recently evolved at that point with the dominant land fauna being Insects and Amphibians. The main takeaway is that 300 mya is quite far off from how long ago mammals originated, given how two entire periods of geological time can happen over that timeframe of 100 million years.
0:57 Morganucodon is already of genus with 5 species spanning from the late Triassic to middle Jurassic, though this is more of a nitpick if anything else. One should also note classic Linnaean taxonomy (the one presented here) is not terribly useful for modern biology, as its rigid hierarchy makes it hard to explain how higher levels of organisation come about, often leading to misconceptions like the idea that evolution involves one kind of organism turning into another kind of organism.
4:15 Speaking of misconceptions based on rigid hierarchies… The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) actually fits perfectly into the category of Mammal; not the definition originally proposed by Linnaeus mind you, but still Mammalian to our modern definition of the clade. Contrary to popular belief, nothing is Avian about the platypus as all of the similarities to birds are caused by either convergence (namely the toothless beak and duck-like feet) or merely traits conserved from their Reptilian common ancestor with birds such as laying shelled eggs.
That’s all for now. Cheers.
In the grim darkness of the far future, space marines will still be fighting furries.
A speech by the winning side in the farther future: "Finawy dewe is peace. A moment of siwence fo da fawen"
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a good example of humans creating their own subspecies. They also travel in a fleet of generation ships using a core removed from a planet as a power source. Also the planet is a naturally occuring AI.
It gets ridiculous, but it is nice to see many of the topics discussed here in other entertainment media. There is the Magistracy of Canopus from the Battletech game setting which explores much of what is talked abour here. Oh, and the Clans that diverged from the Star League Defense Force.
I think I exhibited enough of my dorkdom.
One of your best Arthur. By a country mile.
a monkey human hybrid has already been done just a few weeks ago. no joke.
All the eggs they made died but that's a good thing, growing human organs in monkeys for transplant into people is just wrong.
@@themeanestkitten I admit, I’m with you on this one, we should be developing lab/vat grown organs Instead of genetically engineering an animal that’s only meant to grown human organs inside itself for transplants. Doesn’t seem very moral.
@@Barabel22 not just the morality issue, eventually an issue of other potential (And inevitable(ly unpredictable, uncontrollable)) logistical problems arising with biologically -centered technologies...
I always vote cyber-augmentation
@@alexanderzhmurov9624 Well, being a furry/Scaly, and not fully satisfied with the human form, I think genetic engineering has a place too, since I can’t become my “ideal form” with just cyber augmentation. And a belief that Animal/human hybrids or chimeras and uplifts should be part of our future too, traveling alongside us to explore the solar system and then to the stars.
PBS Eons has a series on homonins and human evolution. They talk a lot about the braided stream hypothesis of evolution. Very worth a watch.
Isaac: Makes intriguing and thought provoking video on divergence of the human species
Comments: loL aNImE cAtGIrLs hAHa
Ah yes.
Cat girl future.
The future is bright lads
At war with the dog girls who are constantly being broken up by the uplifted dolphin professor at the Lunar Harvard.
Imagine future dogs intelligent as a humans, having conversations about the universe and everyday life... 🤯
Us humans struggling to keep up with the conversation while chewing a sock.
@@wolfvale7863 It depends, is it a clean one or maybe the short ones etc?
Dog conversations are only interesting for people that are interested in trees, it's always bark this and bark that.
....over a game of poker with a bit of scotch on the side naturally^^
@@zackkelley2940 while the occasion is commemorated in the form of an oil painting.
I really enjoy when you suggest I get snacks and settle in. I'm going to steal that for work meetings. cool? thanks :)
Thank you for this.
The empire has options other than just banning change. They could mandate a certain percentage of all offspring must be interstellar; get your DNA scanned and transmitted to Alpha Centauri where it would be put into artificial gametes. This way mutations would distribute across the whole emprie rather than collecting in local pockets. Maybe people would even want to do this voluntarily if dating apps became advanced enough!
Best episode in a while. Inspired by the uplifted cat and his descendants. And the inverse hive mind with one being in many bodies.
RE: Cultural identity preservation: It worked pretty well for Jews. There's half a dozen Jewish ethnicities (Ashkenazi are the ones that tend to win all those awards and are prominent in entrepreneurial and entertainment roles)* and many that don't practice the faith, yet their shared heritage unites them to this very day.
*(They're heavily theorised to have been descendants of a Turkic kingdom that converted a couple centuries ago and thus not strictly ethnic descendants of Abraham at all)
🤔 interesting perspective, to be honest, I haven't considered that angle... or most cultural issues not relating directly to survival and propagation of a given "clade" and colony/ship/etc. ...as you know, typical woes of the engineering mindset...
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Good thing I'm a teacher/physical therapist/kindergarten pedagogue/history buff/a bunch of other things!
This is the sort of community engagement we need.
Also.
Not to get too questionable.
The judaic priest caste system lead to scholarliness to be propagated through nurture and nature. There is a certain hard-evidence range of abilities that are 70% or so heritable. Such as certain parts of linguistic ability and short term memory. Hence why there's so many jewish comics. Their culture made them that. A lot of jewish theology is simply so-called "pilpul", essentially a religiously-framed type of aristetolian debate club, which in turn explains the high amount of jewish lawyers.
14:31 I have a feeling it will be what ever humans find the most appealing. We often don't choose the most efficient but most aesthetically pleasing. Take a species of demi-humans with animal traits like ears, tails, maybe even fur and claws on hands and feet, maybe animalistic eyes but the rest is human and said features while providing a slight advantage in some area's are mostly there just for looks.
Even more animalistic features like muzzles/snouts, digitigrade legs, etc can be added and the being can still be aesthetically pleasing, even attractive. Just look at the furry/scaly community and it’s artwork.
@@Barabel22 There will definitely be two factions, the furries, and those who just want animal ears and tails.
@@Barabel22 to be fair, given other adaptations for weight balance and redistribution (that actually could also go rather well with altering respiratory and limbic systems for better handling Mars's (and moons, Jovian, etc, and Oort Cloud planetoids) limited atmospheric (pressure, temperature, gravity, and other) conditions)
**digitigrade** ambulation does seem rather appealing on balance, no pun intended...
idk, maybe it's just me,
but I think it would make more sense for more species to evolve with grace, speed, variance in stance, etc. in mind
rather than too rigidly upright dynamic/format we're used to thinking in...especially for more "predatory" -based species, even if not carnivorous themselves, but from their successfully extant ancestry...
Also, idk, I think I'd like/appreciate teeth* like that of sharks or crocodiles, self -replacing,
or based on chiton's(and similar deep sea mollusks) morphology and (arguably semi-organic) biochemistry,
nigh-indestructible and capable of chewing through rocks...literally...absorbing and incorporating, retaining metallic elements in their bodies, safely...
same with some insects to a degree, even some butterflies actually...capable of exuding acidic substances for use on rocks and rocky ground formations to express nutrient from said rocks*(and other "too solid" substances) they then could absorb directly...
or additional protective (semi-opaque) eyelids present in birds of prey and some reptiles for protection during swimming or ultraviolet radiation during flight orientation against&by the sunlight
or to even be able to perceive chemical tails left by mice and similar rodentia, observable in near ultraviolet or infrared portions of the EM spectrum...
or blood chemistry of whales and deep sea animals, capable of retaining and utilising superior oxygen efficiency ...having more oxygen to use in blood and body tissue rather than lungs, for safety reasons due to deep sea pressure changes...
But I digress...
@@smokeemifyougotem9662 🤨🤔? Isn't that basically the same thing? Or am I missing something?
@@alexanderzhmurov9624 Damn, you’ve put A LOT of thought into this, good job...
Happy Arthursday, everyone
Speciation in the future human line is more probably to occur as a means to achieve improvement in the cognitive abilities(because we are a thinking specis in the first place) , not as adaptive means to new environment that will appear later if one of that new sub-specis will choose to separate from the rest of the humanity in a different and hostile environment.
Your channel has made me optimistic about the future of mankind thank you Isaac Arthur
I'm gonna love this one 🤩
Love every video we get from this channel, but I'm definitely looking forward to this one a lil bit more than usual, it's a very interesting topic I've thought about myself 😁
UA-cam doesn't. He's got great content but +10% likes to views shows that the view-count is being cut down.
Great work 💪
I love these episodes which seem to be the lore for an entire new sci fi franchise
I figure this must be a simulation because SFIA is so awesome it's unreal.
A pair of my sci-fi characters are lab-grown individuals. Granted, they are from the other species, but given how strangely humanoid they are, similar things apply. One was designed to have incredible strength and endurance, just generally physically "better." His little sister was designed for perfect recall and speed intelligence. Both have some cybernetic modifications, but are far from the extremes that some individuals, even other "synthetics" have. By the time the main characters meet these two, they've run far away from the homeworld in an attempt to get somewhere where people don't know about them. A superman and a kid genius being born from a lab would've been major news, and that kind of attention isn't always positive.
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Guess their names are Smoug and Ornsteiny
I hope I'm in the digital heaven at least. The one where we upload our brains into the net before we die. Just chilling in the limitless expanse of a virtual universe. Might already be there.
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Its just a copy unless you do replacement piece by piece with computers/nanotech.
All tomorrow's by CM Kosemen (nemo ramjet?) Explored how humans would evolve into the galaxy very nicely, i'm glad to hear this one and have the memory brought up again
Humans were mutated against their will and turned into freaks, they had no choice but to adapt to their new bodies. In a world without the Qu or crazy aliens i think future humans would alter themselves to look more... aesthetically pleasing, like some warframes.
This fits well into an idea i have (for organisation named Next Gen.)
Where human species was artificially split into separate races, precisely
Cybers - human-computer hybrid who can access Internet directly and remotely
Evos - animal cross breed, genetically engineered for specific tasks and their dna being completely rewrited from scratch with only necessary genes, making them immune to cancer and able to crossbreed with other evos despite completely different different.
Purists - humans who reject modifications, often zealously religious
*Millions of years from now*
Alien teacher: And here is a member of a ancient species called Homo Sapiens, which is the common ancestor of every sapial across the galaxy, some of them are here in class right now.
Posthuman: Do you know about how my ancient ancestors once lived?
Teacher: Absolutely. They used to live in primitive societies called countries that commonly lasted a few hundred years before being replaced by another set of societies, whether they'd be more or less advanced than the previous.
"Harder to categorize than a platypus from Pluto" should totally be a phrase.
Asteromorpths and gravitals want a world with you.
thanks for sharing your thoughts IA
Finally an episode on the OUSTERS!
I love your content
Note, there is such a thing as a molly mule - capable of having colts. And there is such a thing as a horse mule, capable of siring them. They are very very damned rare, just now, but put enough of them together for long enough and you're going to get mules that properly are in fact a separate species. Speciation goes by stages. There are usually a lot of mules (generalized term meaning nonfertile crosses) at the start.
What a Channel!!!!!
Man, I wish my thesis advisor was a super-intelligent dolphin
Not a Plutonian Platypus?
I’ve been around since the rascally rabbits videos, no disrespect, I think eukaryotic life is your Everest Issac. I love all your work. When your book is written I want a hard copy very badly.
6:40 Did Isaac just call polar bears, albino's?! o_0
Polar bears have black skin and hollow hair.
No, he was specifically talking about albino grizzlies
Yes, and no, in evolutionary terms, of past and present developments
Video Topic : Barrow Scale and how it compares to Kardashev scale. Sorry I'm not on Facebook so can't share topics there. Hope you do this someday.
Good Episode :)
The last time I was this early, people who laugh at 'early' jokes were still part of the same species.
The online comic Freefall deals heavily with the question of what happens when humans create possible successor species. Mostly because there are currently two candidates for human successor species among the main cast of the comic, and the third is an alien who has keeping his species from losing the race for interstellar colonization before they know there's a starting line as one of his major goals.
The alien once remarked, after a lengthy discussion with a human about his plan to use the vast quantity of robot labor he is owed to arrange a planet to be bioformed for his species, that he sees how humans got to the stars. "Some beings might look out at the near infinity of the universe with awe and wonder and be humbled by how insignificant they are. Humans stretched forth their arms and declared: MINE!"
Best, most accurate analysis of human psyche ever
I find it rather unlikely that evolution would be able to outpace cybernetics and genetic engineering though
At some point you have to start smashing things with rocks to prevent such nightmare futures from arising.