Yeah… that’s old science fiction. Your not the first. Doctor Who’s Matrix for your VR. I’ve seen libertarian Sci-fi books demanding every instruments, even wooden and metal hammers, be given AI intelligence so nothing is owned, everything has intelligence and potential use, Max privacy is preserved, you can change your body, clone it, prolong it, have back ups, etc…
Your not insisting anything original. I’m mearly insisting emphasis on the continuation of what always has worked best… normal reproduction, and no matter how advance we get, to preserve it, never belittle it or alienate it as a underclass. Its like gays who mock heterosexuals as breeders… imagine if we further divide the reproductive capacity of man by say, 100 separate methods, on of which is natural birth, all others technologically dependent. Goes great for 100,000 years even… then for whatever reason foreseeable, as they often do, civilization enters into a technological darkage. Who is left reproducing?
Your trying to get around your abandonment of sexual reproduction through this, but it forces a lot of poorly thought out repercussions on evolution and adaptability. Evolution doesn’t operate off the basis of survival of the fittest, and ecosystems do not exist… that is a mythos of convienancy we use to explain mutation and heritability, prey and predator relationships… doesn’t pan out when you start looking at nuances, testing assumptions. Like… in my town we have old mines and a unstable rock layer that forms small caves just above one of the old coal levels… I used to go cave and mine exploring all the time. Most caves are rarely touched, but a few cave crickets have been living in and adapting for generations… the deepest the more adapted… very pale, super long attennas.
We have raccoons and ground hogs, they live in trees and burrows. Most never go into these mines, they are sealed for largely sterile of large life forms. In one, raccoons walk all around in… very, very deep in the mine, eating these crickets. I’m talking a half hour crawl into these mines from the entrance. No more well adapted than other raccoons, near mines that don’t, and only a handful do it. They aren’t stationary creates, they move around each generation, migrate to new trees, don’t see them expanding on this skill set. Survival if the fittest doesn’t apply, as they are over evolved to the situation… already come custom adjusted to do so, but only do so if they are quirky enough to do this. Mammals can be pretty quirky at times, acting odd. It can be a survival trait, but doesnt indicate ecosystems exist. An ecosysyem would be a system of mental mapping… a geography, typology… used for resource extraction. Our concept of this evolved for our species needs… we humans have quirks too… weve always mapped them onto syatems, but this isnt the same as our ability to think of our enviroment as a synthesis of threats and resources. That is a different mapping system in the mind completely. In our current science, we just lumped the two together without noticing.
Your asserting a quirky system. Some of these systems (yours and others) may work for a time. But these auirks may undermine our adaptibility, as our specialization in them can substantially alter how regular reproduction proceeds. Think the movie Gattica, where everyone was genetically seethed for “bad traits” except for those who had natural births, in the underclass. They were treated as retarded and ridiculed. Concievably, the selected population coukd still reproduce naturally, gave far fewer issues having natural births there on out… but the sexual stigma carries itself foreward, imprinted on society. It is a society more prone to only selecting and giving advances to a privledged class, who had a “proper birth”. People with normal reproduction after a few hunred, thousand, million generations would evolve as outsiders, not possessing the core skills of said civilization that drives everything. No reason to presume there more advanced humans would continue to want natural reproduction, no reason to oresume they wont hit datk ages, face extinction, etc. This would of impacted our ability to reproduce across every spectrum. Survival of the fittest, wouldnt be a valid theory, because for a million years it wouldnt be tested… its only a historical afterthought AFTER the fact, a artifact of the presumptions in the formulations of the philosophy of history, and not the natural sciences until after the fact is established… until then, something else is going on… and our evolutionary sciences need to be more scientifically attuned towards this… what we actually can identify. Its not a ecosystem per say, as we can’t holistically grasp it, and the axiomatic assumptions can come off as quirks and exceptions to the rules too often… we need a system that grasps this as fundamental. We kinda but not quite do this currently. We can’t do proper risk assessments under presumptions of “Darwinism” and generic statements of “nature” currently, as a result, with any accute and dependable finesse.
Its why I push the caution so heavily. The traits we possess now, is for sexual reproduction. You start adding additional modes, we will segregate under the old modes of presumption for the old sexuality… it will cause a lot of segregation and risk taking, sense of superiority and group identified that will likely adversely affect everyone in the long run. The idea that you can reason sexuality is trait driven… we can make a better sheep through breeding, perhaps a better man through nobility or eugenics or sports and business elite oriented celebrities getting the preferred mates… but once you’ve cut the body politic off completely, both sides are going to continue using the same mental apparatus to view the world the same way, despite this third new mode of reproduction entering into the fray. We will call it reasonable, but the fundamentals of tge new system will elude our impulses for evaluating is as such, or not as such. We will make it based off a evaluation of what is best, and not best for me, and fantasizing how it could be better. The grass is always greener on the other side, and we typically fail in achieving everything we can want… it’s why true fortunes are usually elusive.
Human sexuality is not reasonable. It is therefore the most reasonable system… as reason descends from it. If your life of reasoning brings you to reject it for a consolation prize, transcended against it, your still effecting it, and it you, as your way of thinking is descended from it… but both systems of reproduction are likely to adapt and change in response. What changes that come from reason are unreasonable… unless they can succeed to the same level of simplicity as normal reproduction. When new species emerge, they do just this… through simple reproduction. You start adding intermediary steps, using machines and medicines, that becomes part of the reproduction cycle of the new species… if separate from the individuals, a third sex. It is deeply dangerous to introduce such dependencies onto humanity just for the sake of a few discontents who aren’t satisfied with normal reproduction… their discontent likely stems from impulses designed to get them to correct their lifestyle so as to find better mates or have better offspring. It isn’t designed to start everyone down the long road towards extinction. Nothing matters more to a technologically advanced civilization that it’s continuation. Pod people might work for a while, but won’t work forever. VR worlds give a sense of immortality, but only until the last computer technician dies, the power stitches off, and those virtual worlds go into dormancy. It will happen, it always happens… it’s a part of life. Its part of the story of our evolution. It isn’t reasonable to go against it. You gotta pay very close attention to our psst history to understand how we got here, and I don’t think out philosophy of history us evolved enough, nor our natural sciences advanced enough, to explain it well enough so as to design alternstives unlikely to undermine normal reproduction. I’m for new wats, but it has to last the ages. I mean billions of years. Pod people aren’t going to do that, nor VR. If it did, we would live in a very crowded universe, and would have immortal alien species flooding our skies. Its apparent this is rather hard, and advance life is a rather difficult undertaking. A easy solution isn’t apparent.
