More 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

More 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.