Transhuman General

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It seems you've made the classic mistake of trying to start a transhumanism thread on this board. Transhumanism is something that belongs on Veeky Forums. Considering that current scientific advances are nowhere near that possible for transhumanism, it would be silly to talk about it like a science. It should rather be talked about as an ideology or fantasy.

So please, redirect your discussions on transhumanism here: Thanks!

Well what I am saying is that the idea of pushing the boundaries of our intelligence is biased. Tell me what would increase intelligence?

Increased memory? Enlargements of certain areas? Which ones?

I imagine that the goal would be to increase IQ but I tend to think there's more to intelligence than IQ.

I think the coolest about our brain is that it uses some simple tricks.

Also what some consider flaws in the brain I consider to be quite smart given that we have limited energy available. Stereotyping is quite a flaw but it is also kind of smart.

Imagine that instead of generalizing you would consider all individual stuff as unique: it would require a lot of memory, no?

>the boundries with the general intellegience
yeah, sure

I would consider the enlargment of the prefrontal cortex a good start.

Literally give me one reason we don't already have state funded high IQ breeding programmes.

Just give a million dollars to people who have STEM PhD's and have a child with another STEM PhD.

From my limited understanding that doesn't sound so bad. But do we know it wouldn't have side effects?

Is enlargement actually an improvement? I have read several times that connectivity of neurons instead of the size of the brain is more important. But hey, am not a neuroscientist.

It would be interesting to know if the human brain could actually be more efficient and smaller.

Sandniggers won't bomb themselves.

>Is enlargement actually an improvement?
It seems so.

> I have read several times that connectivity of neurons instead of the size of the brain is more important
Yes, neural pruning is very important for normal funciton. Autism seems to be related to lack of normal neural pruning in childhood.

Bockaert, J. (n.d.). Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Loss of mTOR-Dependent Macroautophagy Causes Autistic-like Synaptic Pruning Deficits. F1000 - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature. doi:10.3410/f.718544648.793499557

>more efficient and smaller
I wouldn't put money on smaller.

Well, again, I have limited understanding of the brain. But apparently birds have kind of small brains yet - at least some species - have good cognition.