Original scientific paper

On Technology and Evolution

Mario Radovan

Abstract

Evolution creates structures of increasing order and power; in this process the stronger prevail over the weaker and carry the evolution further. Technology is an artificial creation that often threatens life and evolution conceived of as natural phenomena; but technology also supports life and it works together with evolution. However, there are claims that technology will do much more than that, and bring about an entirely new epoch of evolution. Technology will replace the fragile biological carriers of evolution by a new kind of nonbiological carriers of immense intelligence and power. The present paper discusses the plausibility and weaknesses of such fascinating projections that some people proudly announce as the final liberation of the Mind, while others fear them as signs of the final self-annihilation of the Man.

Keywords

evolution; computation; intelligence; behaviour; consciousness; natural; artificial

Hrčak ID:

16520

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/16520

Publication date:

6.8.2007.

Article data in other languages: french german

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