The Story Of Evolution Unfolds With Increasing

The Need To Congregate Workers In Offices Will Gradually Diminish.

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.

Intuition Is Linear; Our Imaginations Are Weak. Even The Brightest Of Us Only Extrapolate From What We Know Now; For The Most Part, We're Afraid To Really Stretch.

Biological Evolution Is Too Slow For The Human Species. Over The Next Few Decades, It's Going To Be Left In The Dust.

The Software Programs That Make Our Body Run ... Were Evolved In Very Different Times. We'd Like To Actually Change Those Programs. One Little Software Program, Called The Fat Insulin Receptor Gene, Basically Says, 'hold Onto Every Calorie, Because The Next Hunting Season May Not Work Out So Well.' That Was In The Interests Of The Species Tens Of Thousands Of Years Ago. We'd Like To Turn That Program Off.