While analysing the past, imagine we identify a dominant, intelligent species that went extinct.
Their extinction providing space for our own progression into evolutionary dominance.
If given a time machine, would it be unethical to save that species from extinction?
The consequence, of course, would be the prevention of human evolution and existence…
Now, instead, imagine we used the time machine to look forward, and could see that our own species’ demise would make space for the evolution of new forms of sentient and intelligent life.
Would it be unethical to save our own species from extinction?
The consequence, of course, would be the prevention of new forms of sentient and intelligent life…