Re: Clear up
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
The inherited disease type arguments are kind of irrelevent in terms of this thought experiment. Even without eugenics we will (or could) get to the stage of being able to avoid all of them.
[/ QUOTE ]
How so?
[/ QUOTE ]
We will (or could) get to the stage of understanding genetics well enough so that we filter out, or correct for, any inherited disease.
chez
[/ QUOTE ]
But their point is that these diseases are closely tied to the increased intelligence because of the effect on the brain.
Even so, we're a looooong way from knowing genetics that well.
[/ QUOTE ]
Evem if there's some fundemental limiting factor on intelligents in a human brain we could move the average up towards it and maybe even advance beyond it. Seems very unlikely we are anywhere near a fundemental limit, hman brains probably stopped improving when the evlutionary pressure stopped.
I'm taking the looooooong view. maybe eugenics would make it less loooong.
chez
|