{"id":11894,"date":"2014-07-20T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:50","slug":"humans-arent-the-pinnacle-of-evolution-and-consciousness-were-only-a-rung-on-the-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/humans-arent-the-pinnacle-of-evolution-and-consciousness-were-only-a-rung-on-the-ladder","title":{"rendered":"Humans Aren\u2019t the Pinnacle of Evolution and Consciousness\u2014We\u2019re Only a Rung on the Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> In his latest video, host of National Geographic\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/natgeotv.com.au\/tv\/brain-games\/\"><em>Brain Games<\/em><\/a> and techno-poet, <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisjasonsilva.com\/\">Jason Silva<\/a>, explores the universe\u2019s tendency to self-organize. Biology, he says, seems to have agency and directionality toward greater complexity, and humans are the peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like human beings seem to be the cutting edge,\u201d Silva says. \u201cThe evolutionary pinnacle of self-awareness becoming aware of its becoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJ272i1Bhqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/07\/20\/humans-arent-the-pinnacle-of-evolution-and-consciousness-were-only-the-beginning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub In his latest video, host of National Geographic\u2019s Brain Games and techno-poet, Jason Silva, explores the universe\u2019s tendency to self-organize. Biology, he says, seems to have agency and directionality toward greater complexity, and humans are the peak. \u201cIt\u2019s like human beings seem to be the cutting edge,\u201d Silva [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1628,385,386,1500,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-dna","category-evolution","category-homo-sapiens","category-posthumanism","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46963,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/46963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}