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Next form of a being
Index note evolution slow; gene editing as anchor; hybrid materials; 10 images
We as humans of 20th century continue to exist today. From perspective of thousands of years, human bodies have not developed significantly. Evolution is a slow seemingly random process.
From modern sci-fi perspective, all the theories exist for enhanced and evolved humans. As much as our conscious minds want to have the super beings as shown in movies to be real, the reality will have certain form, as reality is only of a kind.

Another thing is beings are evolved due to forces and adversities that made them to be what they are. And longer time for changing being may not be always be the best form, as the circumstances can change the being to an enough of what is for survival. However, nature also adds its random changes and mutations which allow some kind of change.
Among all the species that exist today, humans that exist today are genetically narrow, on what is possible in future, change with generations.

Although the next form of beings I’m talking about are not the major change for e.g. from a single cellular to a multi cellular system (of say human), but, rather finer functional changes that allow for better livability for being a complex multicellular being. Also known that DNA programming can allow guided development of beings. Also, we have to explore the possibilities of organic and inorganic processes in body and having more hybrid forms with other elements. Earth has carbon form of life, and it itself makes life exist in myriad of ways.

“Next form of being”. I can take a think there is a vast complexity that I will not be able to talk about here. It takes a certain state of mind, a certain feeling to be able to talk (or write) about it. Chasing an idea and my perception of it, might not always align with the reality I do not know of. But confidently, as we can see today, much growth has been made. There are more details known, but not yet fully aware by the mass society. For e.g. anti-aging supplements, and energy boosters already can edit the functionality of the human body to certain extend. But whether or not these are supplement to repressed population or are an enhance to healthy population, it can be both. From ancient times, food or medicinal intake, exercise, externally applied stuff are known to have certain effect on human body from its natural aging and deterioration, and growth. Body goes through natural growth in presence of natural growth factors that there are. Looking at them, A body of a being can be affected by its internal , or external factors. Internal factors constitute DNA growth action trajectory, body’s aging i.e. cell and DNA deterioration trajectory, conscious psychological effect on body, and exercise (internally). And each of these can be affected by the external factors, DNA growth can be perturbed by radiation, conscious input can be changed by perception of existing surroundings, stresses and forces through exercise felt from surroundings.

Beings such as human require strength in physical (metabolic,immunity, etc.) form, and also in intelligence form to grow. And physical strength is inherently psychic as through stronger neural links, but is also physical through what is possible through that for e.g. muscular or immune system. And metabolic strength is subject to the laws of this universe on how the matter behaves and the bio-chemistry of it in the body. However, manifesting the strength or intelligence beyond whats permissible by the body requires the suitable changes in the body.
Human beings grow from baby to teen to adult to mid age to old age. However, there is no super adult growth occurring naturally, and nowadays beings don’t grow beyond adult, but rather decay down to mid age to old age. However, the experience of it can still be made enjoyable and livable as almost all beings do. But, developing beyond to what a peak of being develops, and taking action to drive towards that change is to be thought about and brought up about. Our body constantly maintains itself after its initial growth, and when its maintenance starts to decline, we see the effects of decline.

To enhance this limit of body, we can see research happening nowadays, but most of the ideas seem out of reach practically, or unaware of out in the broad public. Many suggested things work, if they are done properly, to enhance for a longer life, but its never the cure to unending decline that is possible. For e.g. if one has genes with lower muscle, then exercising everyday is paying the time to achieve some muscle, which can enable possibilities of events with those muscle in action. Maybe, some genetics can enable muscle retention without any decay. And not just muscle, but any organ or functional unit aiding for strength, intelligence, and existence. What is healthy existence, what is existence better than all of what we have known, there always can be a better or worse form of being existing happily. But as with all, as many have said, to be happy with oneself for who they are and exist, for that life is one and only to experience. Existing of itself which is a proof in this universe of an unique thing which doesn’t come in short of time, it takes an entire universe-time to make that up, as if that would be the significant universe.

As with all time, beings have a knack for survival, and it seems beings can do anything in order to survive their form, depending of their from moral conscious as their choice. But such a complex form of being has not evolved in short time and maybe would have seen random ups and downs throughout history of evolution.

Is life associated with events that happen today?, as if it is connected to things which surrounds us, both growing simultaneously, in synchrony, which suggests a purpose a life has to fulfill till than synchronous thing is alive, as it flow with time, and analogous changes are made in both when permissible… or maybe this is limitation of intelligence that my form has got. But, maybe its not connected, and there are independent choices for each every being.

Simply existing can be perceived as two different things for two different concepts. A person can simply exist, say just by sitting, sleeping or doing daily activities. In this concept of existing, the lifestyle of person exist along with the person. But in another scenario, where an complex intrigue idea exists that denotes the person participating in that idea with an action. Now, then that idea is simply existing which involves the person with the action that is described in the idea. Hence, existing is the only ultimate thing, and it may matter how to exist in what form. This may seem like a twist of definitions, as words are not enough to convey most things beyond normal in the world. Self-experience and thinking can bring about those states which allow such thinking, with the rules that have set upon by the being itself or are natural.
Still, I haven’t described what next form of being should be. Evolution is driven by evolutionary forces which act on the being to bring out the desired change. An intelligently forced evolution is also a part of that force that enables itself to bring out the change in its say physical form and to higher order mental forms. For e.g. gene editing seems promising, since its the most premature code available that can be evolved to bring drastic visible change that is accessible. And is one of the only anchor points from which a full life can be grown. Any changes made later say after some definite growth are harder or difficult, and have irreversible effect, or are permanent. This is because, there is no way to edit an adult so it can be perfect, unless only if there exists a ‘magical machine or theory’ which would do that. As far as I know, this is how this universe grows bodily beings. They start from some seed and growth is planned in itself. It doesn’t have machine parts which can be just upgraded for eternity from a grown up state. It encodes itself in physically tiny forms of DNA and cell and grows the bodily being.
A major change in hybrid body is to only retain the brain consciousness, or brain neural network with the senses, or add hybrid senses, and allow more known modern ‘inorganic’ forms to be integrated, however, this takes away human bodily experience, and would not be the same life experience. Such forms of being are indeed possible to have, but a better experience can be to explore and enhance existing body state continuously as necessary. Find forms of materials that integrate well with human body, and show resilience, durability and conformity to human body and living.

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