Neo-evolution

There's a scene in Waking Life (again...i know) where the main character talks to a scientist about the evolution of man, and where it might be going. The class discussion about morality and what was talked about on the discussion forum made me think of it because it talks about how morality was a part of the "old evolution".

We normally think of evolution on a physical level, or on a basic psychological level (maternal instinct, competition, parasitism etc.). We don't normally think of evolution having to do with scientific breakthrough and information. If you look at it using that in the timeline of evolution as well, you begin to see the "telescopic nature of the evolutionary paradigm". The scientist in the film talks about how evolution might start to move at a fast pace because as we evolve, the new input for evolution is at a higher level, which makes evolution accelerate until, as he says, we hit a crescendo and realize the ultimate of human, the "neo-human and human potential".

link to scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxX-Z6w3p4