Bye bye X-Men: bienvenue au recyclage neuronal.
“If there is something next, some imminently arriving transformative development for human capabilities, then the key will not be improved genes or cortical plug-ins. But what other way forward could humans possibly have? With genetic and cyborg enhancement off the table for many years, it would seem we are presently stuck as-is, sans upgrades.
This mystery mechanism of human transformation is neuronal recycling, coined by neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, wherein the brain’s innate capabilities are harnessed for altogether novel functions.
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
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Nevertheless, there is a very good reason to be optimistic that the next stage of human will come via the form of adaptive harnessing, rather than direct technological enhancement: It has already happened.
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We Human 2.0’s have, among many powers, three that are central to who we take ourselves to be today: writing, speech, and music (the latter perhaps being the pinnacle of the arts). Yet these three capabilities, despite having all the hallmarks of design, were not a result of natural selection, nor were they the result of genetic engineering or cybernetic enhancement to our brains.
Instead, and as I argue in both The Vision Revolution and my forthcoming Harnessed, these are powers we acquired by virtue of harnessing, or neuronal recycling.
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►http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/humans_version_3.0
►http://www.quora.com/What-is-Neuronal-Recycling
►http://www.changizi.com
►http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/how-our-brains-learned-to-read.html
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
►http://www.unicog.org/publications/Dehaene_VaticanChapter.pdf
►http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about683192.html
►http://www.unicog.org/main/pages.php?page=Stanislas_Dehaene
Illusion de Hering:
►http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ang_hering/index.html