From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 22:03:36 MDT
On Tuesday, October 12, 1999 8:51 AM Bostrom,N (pg) N.Bostrom@lse.ac.uk
> One theoretical argument against the possibility of smartdrugs is that if
> there were a simple way of boosting intelligence, evolution would already
> have discovered it.
This is, IMHO, a bogus argument. First off, it makes a false dichotomy
between evolution and humanity -- as if humans are somehow outside
evolution. Second, and more to the point, if one is going to make such a
separation, imagine if someone in the 1960s had said: "If there were a
simple way of storing data in an optical media, evolution would already have
discovered it." Now we have CDs, don't we? What is meant here is that
biological evolution is not the only means of progress and discovery.
Outside microbial life, it took humans to invent the wheel...
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
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