3.2.7. Other topics

Technology development and having pleasure. Hedonist cultures or civilizations on the way...

• • Diversification - civilizations that privilege: understanding, war, pleasure, obedience, richness, longevity, power, beauty, love and companionship, stillness, openness and diversification, homogeneity, respect, etc...

Engineered planets to serve the civilization's needs. Genetically modified animals, trees, engineered surroundings, weather, even continents, etc. A cozy house-planet. disadvantages: everything they would see would be a mirror of themselves, no novelty, no past, no different histories, a less diverse world?

Effects of war

• • nuclear war, in principle would let some humans alive, if technological infrastructures survives society as we know it would only need a few centuries to reemerge. If all the major technologies were destroyed, including books etc, then we are looking at millennia for for societies to recover to their present level.

  • Biological weapons and other doomsday devices: if all humans are destroyed or unable to reproduce, then we are looking at a time scale of hundreds of thousands of years for a civilizational animal to reemerge. If all primates were destroyed we would obviously be looking at a timescale of millions of years! So, a surviving couple may not seem much in the aftermath of a global war, but it would make a difference of millions of years