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"Never" is a strong word. Perhaps we will be able to fix those missing faculties in the future somehow. We certainly learnt how to fix many other congenital con
by inglor_cz 5y ago
"Never" is a strong word. Perhaps we will be able to fix those missing faculties in the future somehow. We certainly learnt how to fix many other congenital conditions.
My wife was born with a heart defect that would have killed her 60 years ago. 30 years ago, it was already fixable and now she can live a pretty normal life except for "do not exercise too much". Maybe we will be able to do the same in 2040 or 2050 with people who were born with various mental defects.
- sprash 5y agoMaybe there will be a magic pill that makes everybody much more intelligent. We are only using a few percent of our brain after all. Until then I assume that the evidence presented by mainstream psychology is correct which says that between 50% and 80% of IQ is inherited.
- inglor_cz 5y agoIt need not be a pill. It might be genetic manipulation of an already living organism. As of today, the tools like CRISPR aren't very nimble, but who knows what tools will be used in 2040 or 2050 for that purpose. The difference between them and today's CRISPR might be the same as difference between Intel 8080 and Intel Pentium.