Herv Fischer

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Adaptation or Divergence
Hervé Fischer
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2009 is
DARWINS Year
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Searching for evolution
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searching for evolution
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• We celebrate this year Darwin's theory.
• But it cannot explain the accelerated evolution
  of human species,
• which proceeds more by series of ruptures and
  mutations than by natural adaptation.

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The law of adaptation by natural selection fits
only for animal species
But for the human being we should rather consider
the law of divergence
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Human species

• Diverges from nature
• Is fascinated by artifice
• Looks like an advanced brain of nature,
• Searching for alternative scenarios and audacious
  steps ahead

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creativity is divergence
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The human species evolution proceeds by

• imagination
• ideas, theories (like Darwins one)
• human projects
• projections
• utopias
• divergent logics
• divergent technologies
• which may even put
• our species and the
  planet

at risk
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These "genetic jumps" or genetic divergences
come from ideas, not from natural adaptation
and are obvious from the biological point of
view, specifically for our brain.
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Only divergences, even almost always rejected
in a first time, may explain the human
evolution.
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An example
Ethics
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Ethics is the contrary of the law of nature

• Ethics
• protects the weak human beings
• supports the marginal beings
• give attention to the survival of sick and even
  contagious beings
• It is the opposite of the law of the jungle and
  the natural selection

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Such is the Digital Shock
Digital Age
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Digital technologies allow new genetic
manipulations, artificial
life, intelligence and memory.
Gurus speak even of posthumanism
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But the exponential emergence of the digital age
leads to an anthropological revolution, which
will result into a mutation of our mental,
psychological and social structures, which will
apply and reflect in
Lets be realistic and cautious with utopias.

• the transformation of the web

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New cognitive structure from linear thinking to
FLEXIBILITY and arabesque configuration
From causality to chaos and serendipity
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A new cognitive logic and syntax

• by associative configurations
• by links
• by hyperlinks

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an impressionist
consciousness
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A new social relation and praxis

• not thought by unity,
• categories,
• global conflicts
• But a fragmentation
• reunited
• by association
• by links
• by hyperlinks

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from stability, repetition and memory to change,
velocity and agitation
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Hyper planet and web

• Hyper for
• augmented human consciousness
• multiplied social links
• from solitudes to solidarities

HYPER for hyperhumanism
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HYPER for

• a planetary ethics (planetary solidarity),
  which is the most strategic divergence we need
  for our evolution

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The web is a creativity and a innovations
popular laboratory
Which fosters, despite of all negative aspects,
human ethic and cognitive progress
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