yea, that was kind of the response i was expecting you to have and my response is that you then assume evolution is the all encompassing factor in life -- and evolution as is understood by only some people.
and furthermore, disregarding the idea of "planning," there's always the idea of not planning and it just happening ; did evolution really ever plan anything? no but it happened
obviously they can exist along side each other, assuming we transhumaned... Also, the change from biological to mechanical or some mixture would certainly mark some CHANGE which, from further scientists minds living in the wake of such events, if evolution were still believed in, would have to mark some evolutionary event and certainly an evolutionary POSSIBILITY.
finally, the idea of evolution being influenced by "outside forces" encompasses this since technology is kinda outside us but can be placed inside us! whether "planned" or merely demanded by the possibilities of the world or whatever...
my example still stands you just attacked my word usage.
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Besides, evolutionary success is not measured by the complexity of the organism, it is measured by the ability of the organism to surivive and reproduce, or at least that was my understanding of it. Furthermore, what are the parameters that define "human" in the first place that must be overcome?
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How can you measure things like successes if there's no plan to be sucessful based on? iin this case, survival would be increased manifoldly, more than likely, by the switch to mechanical life. indeed, life could perhaps be extended indefinitley!
The parameters in this case would obviously be mostly biological, and over-coming biological limitations -- through technologu.