[Jon Carling]

I totally agree with clark kent.

Your theory completely fits all the provable plans for a genetically engineered future human. Perhaps, in the future, today's elite will be seen as great thinkers and leaders, who secured the earth for the sustainable population.
The illuminated few who had the foresight to kill-off the planet and keep a genetically superior human (future elite), assisted by the slaves (future us). That makes the most sense.

I would add clark, that maybe the result of all the manipulation will actually remove the collective "soul" of the human race. So technically, this future race is not human at all.

When things reach a perceived "critical" point, I think the collective human soul will just simply move on, to another reality, perhaps where we all make up a giant human, who lives in a world of singular giant beings...one giant cat, one giant bird, etc...

and all that are left are human "replicas"
and perhaps this is the ultimate answer to us being considered "containers"
And this would explain the cold hearted nature of alot of their activity.

I also have this feeling that our souls are the thing that keeps us from being able to time travel...it locks us in a dimension, until it "dies", then it shifts to another...like a music scale.

hmm?