Animal uplifting, animal cognitive enhancement, or sapientization, is a speculative transhumanist concept involving the deliberate elevation of non-human animals to advanced levels of intelligence with the idea of approaching or exceeding human baselines through biotechnological interventions.
potential techniques include but are not limited to:
- genetic engineering
- embryo engineering and in vitro fertilization related methods
- neurosurgery
- nootropics including neuropharmacological intervention, microbial nootropics, etc.
- ?brain-computer interfaces (cybernetics or cyborgization)
parrots are pretty good at human language. pets such as dogs and cats can be trained to communicate with button-press talking systems. Great apes can learn sign language. Monkeys have obtained jobs in the human economy, such as picking coconuts or other labor.
Garfield Inc was a startup working on making a way for household cats to speak via some sort of FOXO-related germline genetic intervention to cause certain brain development?
David Brin uplifting series of science fiction novels.
See also ?domestication, directed evolution, intelligence, nootropics, biocomputing, ?intelligence enhancement, neurosurgery, human brain reverse engineering, brain uploading.