Will Humans turn into Cyborgs and Rapidly Evolve, and is that the Key to our Survival?
Yes, and they already have started. Humans are increasingly using automobiles and smartphones as part of their everyday life.
When inside a car, the human and car are essentially a cyborg. You may have noticed that you even think differently when driving.
When we on a social network, or texting, we are part of a hive-mind like the Borg of Star Trek.
Later, the analog human brain will be seamlessly integrated with digital technology, so that smartphone/computer, car and human will become one entity, capable of splitting apart sometimes, but all integrated in cyber-space at the very least.
There are, no doubt, relatively advanced aliens that inhabit entire galaxies. As their memes got filtered by evolution, the ones that favored technology, science and exploration, survived the filtering process.
We have made the - no doubt - common mistake of revealing our birth worlds location by transmitting signals out into deep space. Jealous aliens that detect these signals in time may hurry to destroy us, so that we don't spread across the galaxy.
However, if our memes rapidly evolve, turning us into far more intelligent Cyborgs, we may escape this solar system without leaving a trail, and our memes survive and spread.
There is nothing intrinsically 'good' about surviving. The reason why existing memes seem to emphasize striving towards survival, is not because survival is a absolutely 'good' thing, but that simply that the memes that don't emphasize survival tend to die out and not be around anymore.
Our memes have not undergone the heavy filtering that competition with alien creatures will bring. We had better hurry up and evolve into Cyborgs to avoid being "nipped in the bud".
