In what aspect do I believe that human beings are regressing? // Reflection
It is very easy to think that as human beings when we seek to improve our lifestyle, when we seek to make our daily tasks easier with the use of technology, when our tastes adapt to new changes, it is because we are most likely evolving, it is because we are supposedly changing for the better.
Perhaps when we make a biological interpretation of evolution we think that when we adapt better to the environment it is because we continue to evolve, maybe our genes are inheriting certain behaviors to our descendants that in a chain of transfers make evolution continue to occur, but what if we ask ourselves:
What if the change (evolution or involution) is for the worse and not for the better?
Throughout history we can see evidenced that man has changed to adapt to the environment, to improve their conditions and discard what he does not use, however we are adding to our current lifestyle a number of elements that make the environment around us make us adapt to be a weak species, therefore the point will come where we stop evolving to begin to involute.
Without the need for changes in body composition we can realize that in some aspects of our tastes and behaviors in relation to our behavior of at least 100 years ago, I feel that we are evolving as a species, many times what made human beings happy years ago, nowadays they no longer like it.
An example of this is music for example, before for a musical artist to be liked and get followers, he had to make an effort, break his head thinking about the type of lyrics he was going to add in his songs, they were outstanding compositions with inspiring lyrics and compositions, you could even think that if that effort continued we were going to evolve to reach very high points in the evolution of music.
However, the reality has been different, humanity has changed its tastes, making artists no longer have to make such an effort, since the musical rhythms do not demand to have compositions in their lyrics that are so complex, neither is demanded in musical artists to have a voice so portentous, since the voice can be fixed with autotune and artificial intelligence, if this continues, the music that will be made in the future will enter into decline, we will no longer see the musical quality of the past.
I imagine that the same thing that will happen to music, could happen to all the activities that human beings do, sports, cinema, theater, work, the less effort human beings make, the less effort we will reach the point where our body and mind will not have to make an effort, and as we all know what is not used atrophies, therefore our body could be in the future a body without so much muscle mass, if the development of artificial intelligence and robotics advance to a point where they will do everything for us, perhaps we will no longer have an intellect as developed as today.
Perhaps in another 3000 thousand years human beings will not be able to perform a simple mathematical operation or logical interpretation as our ancestors such as Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Isaac Newton, Leibniz, Rene Descartes, Einstein, among others.
I think that our tastes towards a different lifestyle, will mark the course in which the human being will have to adapt to an environment very devoid of effort, from the past to the present we have always evolved because our body and mind have been demanded, the projection that we are having so that every time we have to make less effort to achieve goals, will make that at an uncertain point in our future we have changed our anatomical and mental configuration but for the worse, so I believe that in the distant future the human being will reach a peak where he will have completely involuted, and perhaps it will be a creation of ourselves that will dominate us completely.