Science Non-Fiction

We have no idea why we sleep. With all of our advances in science medicine, and technology, we are at a complete loss to why it is imperative for all living things to completely shut down for a third of their lives. We know what happens when we don't sleep; that it will drive us to the brink of madness. But we don't know what is happening with us that makes that happen. I think it's nothing more than a sign of how much further we have to go in evolution. There is a subconscious mentality that we as a species have reached where we need to be. We are no longer primates; we walk upright, we communicate, we use tools, we apply logic to problem solving; we have evolved to humans. We are the highest form of evolution. I think what we forget though, is that we are the highest form of evolution; so far. Of course we are the highest form of everything we ever were, but it's amazing that the way we look at monkeys, is how future humanity will look at us. We will continue to evolve, even though NASCAR and Spike TV are tough arguments against any evolution happening any time soon. Right now we look back and say, "Remember when we didn't have the internet, that's crazy right?" Eventually we will look back and say, "Remember when we didn't know why we sleep?" At some point all of man kind may become interconnected on the same frame of conscience, like an internet inside all of our brains. We may be done evolving physically, but mentally we may eventually begin to tap that 90% of the brain that we have no idea it's use for. Perhaps we don't know what it does, or why we sleep; because we're not ready for it. We have yet to evolve to a species that can use all of what our heads are capable of.

Now these are all science fiction type of thoughts, but so was Jules Vern notions of deep sea exploration and space travel. What was fodder for fantasy became fact.

This article posts eight things from literature that came true.

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And as I talked to fellow comedian David Angelo this past weekend about the idea of future human evolution, he turned me onto an incredibly interesting bit of sci-fi literature in a short story by Isaac Asimov about a computing machine called MultiVax written in 1956.Read the short story here: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html , then return to the site's homepage at www.multivax.com to see multivax's eerie simularity to google, and wonder what other science fiction thoughts, will someday, become our reality.