| Nick Bostrom: 3 ways to advance scienceNick Bostrom on why we should invest time and money into developing cognitive enhancement technologies:
"No contribution would be more generally applicable than one that improves the
performance of the human brain. Much more effort ought to be devoted to the
development of techniques for cognitive enhancement, be they drugs to improve
concentration, mental energy, and memory, or nutritional enrichments of infant formula
to optimize brain development. Society invests vast resources in education in an attempt to improve students’ cognitive abilities. Why does it spend so little on studying the biology of maximizing the performance of the human nervous system?" |
| Transhumanism and atheism - natural alliesAn article about the common ground between the atheist movement and transhumanism. I've been hanging out on the RichardDawkins.net forums, and this is a crosspost.
Let me know if you have any ideas on , because I think it's important stuff! |
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