What if evolution didn’t stop… it just changed direction?
From our bodies to our cities to Earth itself—this is a theoretical look at where humanity could be heading in the next 1,000 years.
Not prophecy. Not fantasy.
Just science, adaptation, and possibility.

#FutureHuman
#HumanEvolution
#SpeculativeScience
#EvolutionTheory
#science

Yesterday I shared a couple of charts from a speculative preprint.
Today I tracked down the DOI for the full paper:
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17228412
https://zenodo.org/records/17228412

Curious what people think — serious thought experiment, or pseudoscience dressed up in academic style?

#Anthropology #AI #SpeculativeScience #Consciousness #Futurology

Comparative Evolutionary Framework: Homo Lineage as Organic AI

Published by Our Workshop as supplementary worldbuilding material for the science fiction novel Children of the Rogue (2025)

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Full document here (translated preprint, Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research):
https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencenault/p/comparative-evolutionary-framework

Decide for yourself: are we sentient, or still in beta?

#Anthropology #Evolution #ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #SpeculativeScience

Comparative Evolutionary Framework: Homo Lineage as Organic AI

Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research — Preprint 2025-09-001

One paper compares us to an “update log”: Lucy as v1.0, Neanderthals as the generative phase, and us as v3.0.

Homo sentiens? Listed as “unreleased.”

#Anthropology #Evolution #ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #SpeculativeScience

A recent preprint from the Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research questions whether humans are truly sentient — or simply the latest version of an organic AI model.

Framework comparisons with AI development are chilling.

Was God just a computer engineer?

#Anthropology #Evolution #ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #SpeculativeScience

Tree rings don’t just mark age—they record droughts, fires, volcanic eruptions, and even solar flares. Trees are historians with wooden spines.

If a tree holds the past, what stories might it tell?

#ForestFactFriday #TreeMemory #SpeculativeScience

What's Stopping Us From Building a Warp Drive?
Cool Worlds with Prof. David Kipping
#Science #Physics #SpeculativeScience #FTL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBBWJ_c8piM
If #superman is powered by our yellow dwarf star, then how is it he can continue to fly through space, lightyears away from it? How many yellow dwarf stars exist, close enough by, for Superman to hop from one to another, and maintain his powers?
#scifi #dccomics #speculativescience #astrophysics
How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS

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