Re: Homeotics (was: Re: Intelligence enhancement)

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 05:11:38 MST


On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Damien Broderick wrote:

> I don't think people have appreciated fully the brilliant incisiveness
> of Mark's suggestion. Working with homeoboxen seems likely to allow

That post made transhumantech, though. These days, few posts from here do.

> some major non-random jumps forward. I suspect that just as proteomics
> offers more significant advances than genomics alone, homeotics might
> permit almost Kauffman-like leaps through pheno-phase space.

Absofuckinglutely. Given that lots of expected technology is stalling,
baloonheads might be landing yet.



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