{"id":37885,"date":"2011-08-07T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rise-of-the-apes-we-must-care-for-the-minds-we-create-science-not-fiction\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:46:22","slug":"rise-of-the-apes-we-must-care-for-the-minds-we-create-science-not-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rise-of-the-apes-we-must-care-for-the-minds-we-create-science-not-fiction.php","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Apes: We Must Care for the Minds We Create | Science Not Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_ROTA3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4611\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_ROTA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"522\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Rise of the Planet of the Apes <\/em>may have just unseated <em>Captain America: The First Avenger <\/em>as my favorite pro-enhancement film. Andy Serkis and John Lithgow render the sapient mind a character and drama unto itself &ndash; growing, evolving, and dying before our eyes. As a summer blockbuster, the film offers gorillas smashing helicopters, orangutan sign language humor, and a one-two punch apocalyptic virus to sate any palate slavering for action. As a meditation on enhancement, we&rsquo;re treated with a film that has the brass to own up to the real villain of <em>Frankenstein<\/em>:&nbsp;the horrified masses and absentee father-scientist. <em>Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/em> calls out a fear that sits at the heart of humanity: what if our offspring is more intelligent for us and because we cannot properly care for it, judges us to be lacking?<\/p><p>In the film, we see over and over that it is not Caesar&rsquo;s enhancement that causes problems. In fact, Caesar&rsquo;s enhancement makes him the most moral and wisest person on the screen. The failure of those around him &ndash; from the cruel ape sanctuary caretakers to Caesar&rsquo;s own father figure, Will Rodman ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rqhFNsqqnnFGolwBISAXuZ8U_VE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rqhFNsqqnnFGolwBISAXuZ8U_VE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_SM2on2biAzM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4f4bd_c1om_OBmc0k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise of the Planet of the Apes may have just unseated Captain America: The First Avenger as my favorite pro-enhancement film. Andy Serkis and John Lithgow render the sapient mind a character and drama unto itself &ndash; growing, evolving, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rise-of-the-apes-we-must-care-for-the-minds-we-create-science-not-fiction.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}