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Can we improve our own brain this way? I mean, brain of our kind, not some already living person. What if we can create a creature smarter than us?
by EugeneOZ 6y ago
Can we improve our own brain this way? I mean, brain of our kind, not some already living person. What if we can create a creature smarter than us?
- colechristensen 6y agoSurely, but at what cost? Exploratory human experimentation... maybe you're testing and aborting half developed humans which already many people would have significant problems, but eventually you're going to have to produce adults and not every experiment is going to be a success. It's hard to think of a future of our species where self-modification is not part of our evolution, but it is a very powerful tool and like any power a lot of discipline has to go into not misusing it. Somebody call Dr Moreau
- strikelaserclaw 6y agoChina is probably working on it.
- qvrjuec 6y agoObviously, but the real issue would be figuring out how to tweak our genes to do so. Figuring out how to enlarge the brain of a monkey would've been much easier, because human genes provided a ready-made template for these researchers to use.
- SubiculumCode 6y agoNot to be funny, but our brains/skulls are already large enough to really make giving birth legitimately dangerous to mothers. Making the head even bigger would not be welcome.
- etiam 6y agoMore likely the poor thing's going to be severely epileptic or have other debilitating brain malfunctions, if it would be viable at all. People here are reading way too much positive functional consequences into this manipulation. In principle, of course genetic manipulation could be used as one tool to create a creature "smarter" than any human (whatever that means more specifically). In practice, until we start having a much more coherent theory of functional brain physiology, applying the tool to that end pretty much amounts to mucking around, with likely tragic consequences.