(nods) Fair enough… that sure does sound like it’s saying what you understand it to be saying.
I can imagine ways to rescue that quote by taking very strict interpretations of “simple surgical procedure,” I guess. E.g., maybe a simple surgical procedure can’t enhance intelligence, any more than simple mathematics can predict trajectories in atmosphere, fine, but I can’t see why that’s an interesting question. But I’m really uninterested in exegesis, let alone eisegesis.
For my own part, I can imagine several technological procedures to enhance human intelligence that seem plausibly within the reach of applied cognitive science in my lifetime.
(nods) Fair enough… that sure does sound like it’s saying what you understand it to be saying.
I can imagine ways to rescue that quote by taking very strict interpretations of “simple surgical procedure,” I guess. E.g., maybe a simple surgical procedure can’t enhance intelligence, any more than simple mathematics can predict trajectories in atmosphere, fine, but I can’t see why that’s an interesting question. But I’m really uninterested in exegesis, let alone eisegesis.
For my own part, I can imagine several technological procedures to enhance human intelligence that seem plausibly within the reach of applied cognitive science in my lifetime.