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universal taxonomy

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The division between species is based on procreation.

The division between persons, animals, and plants is of communication. That which makes us persons is the level of complexity of our ideas which cannot be communicated to non-persons, whether they are humans or animals. Even within humanity, a person of an advanced intellect is not really the same sort of creature as one who cannot understand their ideas effectively.

Plants can't understand even our best attempts to communicate with them because they simply have no capacity for understanding or caring where the nutrients or harms around them come from or why. We can communicate with animals only at the level of interaction we share, that of emotion.

I expect that post-humans will begin to lose congress with biological beings quite rapidly as the use of emotion will be irrelevant to them for any other purpose but that communication, and biological beings will rapidly become irrelevant by being supplanted by beings which are superior in every way.
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Advocate wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:09 pm The division between species is based on procreation.
What about ring-species?

When do bacteria speciate?
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Advocate wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:09 pm I expect that post-humans will begin to lose congress with biological beings quite rapidly as the use of emotion will be irrelevant to them for any other purpose but that communication, and biological beings will rapidly become irrelevant by being supplanted by beings which are superior in every way.
You are commenting here about the robots post singularity.
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