Our brain is not ours anymore!!

In the beginning, there were very simple elements, they then evolved and increased their awareness of the surrounding world. They became multicellular, springing from the fact that they could reproduce themselves without the need of a mating partner, they grew and evolved and their interaction with the world increased in its intensisty, generating the need to develop a larger and better equiped nervous system. As time passed, their necessities grew beyond living and reproducing and started moving to explore the world in order to be able to extract full benefit from it.

At some point multicellular entities were born in a way in which cells and groups of cells worked together to achieve a common benefit, thus creating beings larger than their own selves. This lead to the springing of aquatic entities which, at a certain point in time, decided to explore the world beyond the waters, fish evolving into reptiles that decided to start exploring the shores thus modifying their genetic codes to slowly include the formation of limbs in order to be able to move around dry land.

Those primitive reptiles had a part of their brain developed to be able to calibrate the information gathered by their senses to be able to efficiently move around and little else.

That is the reptilian part of our current human brains. Those beings were the "embryos" of a wide diversity of species which evoloved from them in order to suit specific needs from differnet living habitats hence creating an incredibly large number of different species and variations of them, birds, fish, mammals, cold bloded beings, etc...

A particular branch of the mammals evolved into pre-men whilst their brain included little by little more and more functions such as memory, the use of tools and so on and so forth, stressing it to its uttermost limits and forcing it to develop new areas which would process all sorts of information in very different ways.

All this went on and on through a myriad of years and thousands of years until the Homo Sapiens first appeared, having the capacity to adapt certain elements of their surrounding world to better serve their needs in the way of tools and gaining consciousness of themselves, which is something no anymal is capable of. In this way, feelings were created, and with them came pitty, love, hate, envy, etc... the need to express those feelings, being them abstract, was impending, but far more complex than dealing with tangible things, thus came the arts to represent worlds, ideas and thoughts which only lived in the mind of the artist, forcing the brain once more to still pursue the path of evolution up to a point in which the human race grew to fully populate the world and make use of most of its natural resources to better suit themselves, specially since the inception of machines that were able to perform tasks in semiautomated and automated ways, leaving enough time for the human being to start enjoying itself and way more time than it had ever had in the history of human kind. This places us in the last 150 years, when artists evolved from craftsmen.

In our day time, our brain is equipped with several areas which manage different packs of information and concepts, in this way we have the cortex, the frontal lobe etc (I won't list them all and their functions in this article) BUT, at some point, our natural capacity to manage information, as well as the fact that the world was starting to gain awareness on a global scale through telecommunications (telegraph, tv, radio, phones and the like) was fully overflowed by both, the brisk pace of production and information, and the sheer size of the bulk of human creation, becoming all of it too large to be processed by our little brains and be stored in conventional ways. The computer was created.

The computers enable us to store, manage and process incredibly large ammounts of information which have never before in the history of human kind been accessible to anyone. The only basic thought that comes to my mind when I think about this is that, in our capacity to use elements to build tools to better interact with the world, we have outpaced the natural flow of evolution, jumping over the next hurdle of brain development into a world where the next stage of our capacity to manage information has left our bodies to be placed under certain conditions in plastic boxes in our offices, at home, in our mobile phones, everywhere... We have then created the next evolution of humankind in a non conscious way, but giving birth to the "Hommo Computeratus" or whatever you want to call it.

A question then springs, if we have outpaced the natural laws of evolution, what will the next jump be? specially if we take into account that the more evolutive jumps we undergo as a race, the larger the momentum, thus accelerating the time lapse between jumps from race to the next level race.

Which is the next jump, and when will it take place? Any suggestions :)