man, that is for instance plant and animal breeding and genetic engineer-
ing.

Before we embark on a more detailed consideration of these possibili-
ties, we will examine the general development in nature, where subatomic
particles in a condensed energy environment cool to form galaxies and the
elements. This is also an evolution. Next we observe the process of forma-
tion of complex structures in inorganic and organic matter, up to the or-
ganic chain and life, to a high-entropy stage, and finally back into cold
material clouds in space, waiting for another gravity collapse and a high-
energy beginning of another cosmic cycle.

For humans, a moral imperative inheres in all of this, if we want to en-
dure on earth and develop up, not down.

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