{"id":75577,"date":"2018-01-25T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/what-is-the-next-stage-in-human-evolution"},"modified":"2018-01-25T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:02:59","slug":"what-is-the-next-stage-in-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/what-is-the-next-stage-in-human-evolution","title":{"rendered":"What is the next stage in human evolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/1439074146204705\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>Will the transhumanist path forward lead us to singularity of posthuman superintelligence a-la Ray Kurzweil?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cI think that the definition of being human is about to change a lot in the next century,\u201d says <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michelle.thaller\/?fref=mentions\">Michelle Thaller<\/a>, astronomer and Assistant Director for Science Communication at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/?fref=mentions\">NASA \u2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Human beings next evolutionary leap is going to take us beyond our biological existence. How do you feel about merging with an artificial intelligence?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigThinkScience\/videos\/1439074146204705\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigThinkScience\/videos\/1439074146204705\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the transhumanist path forward lead us to singularity of posthuman superintelligence a-la Ray Kurzweil? \u201cI think that the definition of being human is about to change a lot in the next century,\u201d says Michelle Thaller, astronomer and Assistant Director for Science Communication at NASA \u2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Human beings next evolutionary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2018,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75577","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}