Goals of Humanity: Basic
No matter how many people would like to be considered the kings of nature, in fact they still remain animals. At the moment, humans are species-specific apes. Our feature as a biological species is a highly developed brain. So in order to formulate the basic goals of humanity, one must proceed from the fact that we are one of the biological species and from the fact that we can be intelligent.
First main goal
The basic purpose of the animal has not changed since the beginning of life itself. Ever since the first replicators, which gave all the variety of life that exists, reproduction has been the main task. That wasn’t the goal back then, just replicators that didn’t reproduce, didn’t leave offspring, and reverted back to original non-living state. Mankind, having a mind, can control this process in an optimal way for itself. An important clarification is that here it should not be an obligation, free will should be preserved.In the animal kingdom, social insects are a clearly visible example of this. But even among placental mammals, there are frequent examples when some individuals do not participate in reproduction, but are focused on performing duties that benefit their community. As a goal in the most general form, this can be formulated as follows:
Preservation of the species with the succession of hereditary information, at least during the shelf life of our universe.
This wording allows both the introduction of changes in the genetic code of our biological species, and the transfer to another system for storing and transmitting hereditary information. But it is natural and reasonable to preserve the biological basis of our species, as long as this possibility remains. At least as a fallback if other branches of artificial evolution come to a standstill.
Second main goal
Our species has split off and achieved relative power thanks to the intellectual abilities of our brains. This is our species-specific feature. Accordingly, the second goal will be the following:
Preservation of the intellectual abilities of our species throughout its existence.
This formulation does not prohibit the creation of entire planetary ecosystems on the basis of our genetic code. Where, on the basis of human DNA, both biomechanisms that replace bacteria and viruses and devices for obtaining and accumulating energy that replace plants will be designed.
But in this case, it would be reasonable for such ecosystems to have signal systems within them for close connection of the entire designed biosphere, including the general immune system.
Other goals
Surprisingly, it is difficult to formulate other goals of the same level of significance as these two. Dozens of important and thousands of less important goals can be formulated on the basis of these two main goals. But I will write about this in the next article.
