Homo is the genus that encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans). The genus is between 2 and 3 million years old. The genus Homo was given its taxonomic name to suggest that its member species can be classified as human.
The common name of the human species in English is historically "man" (from the Germanic), often replaced by the Latinate "human." Other Latin-based names for the human species have been created to refer to various aspects of the human character, that is, defining characteristics of the species. Most of these refer to linguistic, intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, or technological abilities taken to be unique to humanity. The subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, anatomically modern humans, emerged about 200,000 years ago.
Homo roboticus We have created this name for the present human species to refer to various aspects of its modern human character. It is said that Homo roboticus appeared about 35,000 years ago. It has experienced, since then, 65 punctuated evolutionary events. This writer refers to these events as "upgrades."
We state emphatically that the present race are biological robots with an organic operating system. It is this author?s contention that by accepting this premise, we will leap forward in understanding our species and will give some scientists an advantage in researching the race, especially its living operating system.
We remind readers that under this premise, they are themselves a biological robot with a living operating system that is unique and personalized. Thus, they are processing information on this website in a particular way that may result in rendering it as "nonsense," that is, they cannot "sense" or process it objectively. This cognitive confusion usually results in automatic responses similar to a mental flood of emotional responses. Going back to Salem during the witch trials with a modern phone would elicit the same respond--a clash of technological orientations.
Twentieth-century scientists tend to forget that there will be a 21st-century science, and indeed, a 30th-century science, from which vantage points our knowledge [processes and personalities] of the universe may appear quite different [primitive]. In more advanced civilizations, producing diverse life-forms using genetic manipulation would seem as child?s play. ?We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance [or ignorance] that has always irritated posterity [and prosperity].? J. Allen Hynek
