Gary asked:

Has evolution stopped, or are cyborgs (and all the other intended man/ machine hybrid species) the
next step?

In the future will machines alone be able to exist?

Are we among the last of the human species?

Gary also asked:

If, with a brain only 3 times the size of our nearest great ape relatives, we have produced
mathematics, philosophy, science, art, literature, and music, does this not lend credence to those who
hold to strong versions of AI, and that in the near future we will have truly intelligent machines?

Is the brain a machine?

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No evolution has not stopped, it can't.

Cyborgs being the next step (without doubt) doesn't presume that evolution has stopped.

Off course you don't mean to be arrogant, but thinking of a human made future in fact still is.

The fact that mixes of humans and robots are surely going to happen doesn't mean that this'll be
tomorrow. Neurologists are far too optimistic, in fact they only understand a fraction of the human
brain. They are far in copying, not in understanding. For instance the storage capacity of human
brains is a million times bigger than of the largest earth computer, the speed is about 100.000 times
higher and the energy consumption at least 1 million times lower.

Off course a brain can be seen as a machine, but that doesn't help us. Its complexity is at the
moment far beyond human technology (that means faster, smaller, using less energy, more creative).

Robots the next ages will have human brains. Even if not anymore they'll be an extension of human
thinking. Not the present robots that can maw our lawn, but really intelligent, creative beings.

Henk Tuten