![]() ![]() And if we should surrender our genetic nature to machine-aided ratiocination, and our ethics and art and our very meaning to a habit of careless discursion in the name of progress, imagining ourselves godlike and absolved from our ancient heritage, we will become nothing. To the extent that we banish the rest of life, we will impoverish our own species for all time. What does it all mean? This is what it all means: To the extent that we depend on prosthetic devices to keep ourselves and the biosphere alive, we will render everything fragile. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called 'the rainbow colors' around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existencefrom our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of. It is worth asking repeatedly: Where are our deepest roots? We are, it seems, Old World, catarrhine primates, brilliant emergent animals, defined genetically by our unique origins, blessed by our newfound biological genius, and secure in our homeland if we wish to make it so. ![]() “I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. ![]()
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