MaestroMavius

This is actually a very interesting field of study currently. Have we, as a species, managed to 'Turn Off' evolution?

Evolution used to govern how we adapted to changes in the enviroment. In fact, we have already evolved past one. At numerous points throughout time, there have been more than one humanoid species living side by side. It was various mutations thru the generations, highlighting the best traits that eventually led to us.

The debate is whether or not that is still happening. With modern medicine and advanced tech, those same mutations are now 'cured' or outright locked away, regardless if the trait is a good one, simply by means of being 'defective'.

We may well have grown past the influence of evolution and have therefor reached a plateau. One where the future of our species really is in our hands, as we have no choice but to continue to use Tech to adapt.

There are some that scoff at this, saying true evolution of a species takes literally thousands of generations to accomplish the smallest change.

There are others that say, by virtue of our increasing intelligence and ability to manipulate our enviroment, instead of turning off evolution, we are actually speeding it up. So that we could see it's effects within a single lifetime.
Evolutionary bursts have happened over the aeons, to us a few times, to other things like virues and bacteria etc.

It's also possible, that since we have 'taken over' the grunt work of adaptation, evolution switches to another tactic and instead increases other areas. Of course, these are the studies that delve into the...
more laughible areas of discourse. I.E. since we can now manipulate fire with ease, it's only a matter of time before man can create it from the molecules in the air around us. That's on the far end of what I can accept currently though.

Yeah, don't get me started on Idiocracy...

Scariest movie ever.

Well yeah... Reading it like somesort of brainwave transmission would make it sound looney.

I don't wanna derail the main topic, like you pointed out, these are 2 different areas entirely, what we are capable of yet don't know how to achieve vs what we will one day be capable of.

However, in effort to clarify;
Darwin gave us a good foundation, but we've moved so far past 'survival of the fittest' at this point.
Lamark's been given the egg treatment for decades. It's good, no it's bad, no it's good. New discoveries with stem cells have proven, at least to a degree, that his theory wasn't a total wash.
The debate still rages however and I must caution here, we can't even begin to truly understand the complexity of the human mind and it's real impact on evolution (as a sentient species making more choices than before, etc.)

All the same, you don't even have to get that technical with it. I think most of us can agree that society has an impact on subconscious knowledge over time. This knowledge may not be passed on to future generations internally but rather externally.

Now if your just denying that knowledge can be stored in the Subcon, well...

Back OT.
In my opinion, the reason why we can't/haven't achieved all that we are currently capable of is also society. Things that are impossible aren't attempted. Things that go beyond the scope of normal are in general shunned. How many of us have ran as fast as we could, all the while our subconscious mind was internally dictating what that limit would be, due to what society deems acceptable and how much we believe in breaking barriers. Lest we be locked up for being nuts. When a runner pushes himself to be faster, it's measured in seconds, because subconciously they've been taught that it's only possible to improve to a limited degree.

You can't see the forest for the trees...

In this case, the tree for you is you're personal enjoyment of the trials, you see nothing wrong, so you gloss over the facts.

The forest in this case is the fact that there have been numerous threads and posts on how to improve the trials. You just don't read those because you don't think they need improving.

Nobody is going to do that here however, as the condenscending tone of your OP forces everyone to instead focus on trying to explain what they don't like.

See also: Tacit Knowledge and/or DiKW Chain.

It's one facet of it, yes. Fact is the modern processed food we intake is altering our digestive systems with every generation. To make us more capable of extracting as much nutrients as possible and eliminate problems like diabetes.
See also: the appendix. While the debate as to what exactly it did/does is ongoing, the fact that it's an organ in transition is not. Our diet altered our systems over hundreds of years, this process hasn't stopped.

I can see an Us vs Them war, ala X-Men in the far future...
Those that have evolved to be faster, stronger etc. Vs those that haven't and thereby use/abuse technology in order to close the gap. *Shrugs* Anything is possible with enough time.

As someone who plays this game for the stories, both ingame and in my mind, I agree.

I'd play an engaging story even if it didn't give a single thing other than the experience, that's actual tangible experience, not the point kind.