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.Each generation would be both content and vessel, an echo in a self-sustaining reverberation.Stratton envisioned a day when the human species could survive as long as its own behavior allowed, when it could stand or fall based purely on its own actions, and not simply vanish once some predetermined life span had elapsed.Other species might bloom and wither like flowers over seasons of geologic time, but humans would endure for as long as they determined.Nor would any group of people control the fecundity of another; in the procreative domain, at least, liberty would be restored to the individual.This was not the application Roth had intended for his epithet, but Stratton hoped the kabbalist would consider it worthwhile.By the time the autonym's true power became apparent, an entire generation consisting of millions of people worldwide would have been born of the name, and there would be no way any government could control their reproduction.Lord Fieldhurst—or his successors—would be outraged, and there would eventually be a price to be paid, but Stratton found he could accept that.He hastened to his desk, where he opened his own notebook and Roth's side by side.On a blank page, he began writing down ideas on how Roth's epithet might be incorporated into a human euonym.Already in his mind Stratton was transposing the letters, searching for a permutation that denoted both the human body and itself, an ontogenic encoding for the species.[Back to Table of Contents]The Evolution of Human ScienceIt has been twenty-five years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, making this an appropriate time to revisit the question that was so widely debated then: what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?No doubt many of our subscribers remember reading papers whose authors were the first individuals ever to obtain the results they described.But as metahumans began to dominate experimental research, they increasingly made their findings available only via DNT (digital neural transfer), leaving journals to publish secondhand accounts translated into human language.Without DNT humans could not fully grasp prior developments nor effectively utilize the new tools needed to conduct research, while metahumans continued to improve DNT and rely on it even more.Journals for human audiences were reduced to vehicles of popularization, and poor ones at that, as even the most brilliant humans found themselves puzzled by translations of the latest findings.No one denies the many benefits of metahuman science, but one of its costs to human researchers was the realization that they would likely never make an original contribution to science again.Some left the field altogether, but those who stayed shifted their attention away from original research and toward hermeneutics: interpreting the scientific work of metahumans.Textual hermeneutics became popular first, since there were already terabytes of metahuman publications whose translations, while cryptic, were presumably not entirely inaccurate.Deciphering these texts bears little resemblance to the task performed by traditional paleographers, but progress continues: recent experiments have validated the Humphries decipherment of decade-old publications on histocompatibility genetics.The availability of devices based on metahuman science gave rise to artifact hermeneutics.Scientists began attempting to “reverse engineer” these artifacts, their goal being not to manufacture competing products, but simply to understand the physical principles underlying their operation.The most common technique is the crystallographic analysis of nanoware appliances, which frequently provides us with new insights into mechanosynthesis.The newest and by far the most speculative mode of inquiry is remote sensing of metahuman research facilities.A recent target of investigation is the ExaCollider recently installed beneath the Gobi Desert, whose puzzling neutrino signature has been the subject of much controversy.(The portable neutrino detector is, of course, another metahuman artifact whose operating principles remain elusive.)The question is, are these worthwhile undertakings for scientists? Some call them a waste of time, likening them to a Native American research effort into bronze smelting when steel tools of European manufacture are readily available.This comparison might be more apt if humans were in competition with metahumans, but in today's economy of abundance there is no evidence of such competition.In fact, it is important to recognize that—unlike most previous low-technology cultures confronted with a high-technology one—humans are in no danger of assimilation or extinction.There is still no way to augment a human brain into a metahuman one; the Sugimoto gene therapy must be performed before the embryo begins neurogenesis in order for a brain to be compatible with DNT.This lack of an assimilation mechanism means that human parents of a metahuman child face a difficult choice: to allow their child DNT interaction with metahuman culture, and watch their child grow incomprehensible to them; or else restrict access to DNT during the child's formative years, which to a metahuman is deprivation like that suffered by Kaspar Hauser.It is not surprising that the percentage of human parents choosing the Sugimoto gene therapy for their children has dropped almost to zero in recent years.As a result, human culture is likely to survive well into the future, and the scientific tradition is a vital part of that culture.Hermeneutics is a legitimate method of scientific inquiry and increases the body of human knowledge just as original research did.Moreover, human researchers may discern applications overlooked by metahumans, whose advantages tend to make them unaware of our concerns [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Each generation would be both content and vessel, an echo in a self-sustaining reverberation.Stratton envisioned a day when the human species could survive as long as its own behavior allowed, when it could stand or fall based purely on its own actions, and not simply vanish once some predetermined life span had elapsed.Other species might bloom and wither like flowers over seasons of geologic time, but humans would endure for as long as they determined.Nor would any group of people control the fecundity of another; in the procreative domain, at least, liberty would be restored to the individual.This was not the application Roth had intended for his epithet, but Stratton hoped the kabbalist would consider it worthwhile.By the time the autonym's true power became apparent, an entire generation consisting of millions of people worldwide would have been born of the name, and there would be no way any government could control their reproduction.Lord Fieldhurst—or his successors—would be outraged, and there would eventually be a price to be paid, but Stratton found he could accept that.He hastened to his desk, where he opened his own notebook and Roth's side by side.On a blank page, he began writing down ideas on how Roth's epithet might be incorporated into a human euonym.Already in his mind Stratton was transposing the letters, searching for a permutation that denoted both the human body and itself, an ontogenic encoding for the species.[Back to Table of Contents]The Evolution of Human ScienceIt has been twenty-five years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, making this an appropriate time to revisit the question that was so widely debated then: what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?No doubt many of our subscribers remember reading papers whose authors were the first individuals ever to obtain the results they described.But as metahumans began to dominate experimental research, they increasingly made their findings available only via DNT (digital neural transfer), leaving journals to publish secondhand accounts translated into human language.Without DNT humans could not fully grasp prior developments nor effectively utilize the new tools needed to conduct research, while metahumans continued to improve DNT and rely on it even more.Journals for human audiences were reduced to vehicles of popularization, and poor ones at that, as even the most brilliant humans found themselves puzzled by translations of the latest findings.No one denies the many benefits of metahuman science, but one of its costs to human researchers was the realization that they would likely never make an original contribution to science again.Some left the field altogether, but those who stayed shifted their attention away from original research and toward hermeneutics: interpreting the scientific work of metahumans.Textual hermeneutics became popular first, since there were already terabytes of metahuman publications whose translations, while cryptic, were presumably not entirely inaccurate.Deciphering these texts bears little resemblance to the task performed by traditional paleographers, but progress continues: recent experiments have validated the Humphries decipherment of decade-old publications on histocompatibility genetics.The availability of devices based on metahuman science gave rise to artifact hermeneutics.Scientists began attempting to “reverse engineer” these artifacts, their goal being not to manufacture competing products, but simply to understand the physical principles underlying their operation.The most common technique is the crystallographic analysis of nanoware appliances, which frequently provides us with new insights into mechanosynthesis.The newest and by far the most speculative mode of inquiry is remote sensing of metahuman research facilities.A recent target of investigation is the ExaCollider recently installed beneath the Gobi Desert, whose puzzling neutrino signature has been the subject of much controversy.(The portable neutrino detector is, of course, another metahuman artifact whose operating principles remain elusive.)The question is, are these worthwhile undertakings for scientists? Some call them a waste of time, likening them to a Native American research effort into bronze smelting when steel tools of European manufacture are readily available.This comparison might be more apt if humans were in competition with metahumans, but in today's economy of abundance there is no evidence of such competition.In fact, it is important to recognize that—unlike most previous low-technology cultures confronted with a high-technology one—humans are in no danger of assimilation or extinction.There is still no way to augment a human brain into a metahuman one; the Sugimoto gene therapy must be performed before the embryo begins neurogenesis in order for a brain to be compatible with DNT.This lack of an assimilation mechanism means that human parents of a metahuman child face a difficult choice: to allow their child DNT interaction with metahuman culture, and watch their child grow incomprehensible to them; or else restrict access to DNT during the child's formative years, which to a metahuman is deprivation like that suffered by Kaspar Hauser.It is not surprising that the percentage of human parents choosing the Sugimoto gene therapy for their children has dropped almost to zero in recent years.As a result, human culture is likely to survive well into the future, and the scientific tradition is a vital part of that culture.Hermeneutics is a legitimate method of scientific inquiry and increases the body of human knowledge just as original research did.Moreover, human researchers may discern applications overlooked by metahumans, whose advantages tend to make them unaware of our concerns [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]