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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
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Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
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In article <22398@well.sf.ca.us> moritz@well.sf.ca.us (Elan Moritz) writes:
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>                        TRANS_SAPIENS and TRANS_CULTURE
>                                      ***
>                              REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
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>
>
>          In an earlier paper [Memetic Science: I - General
>          Introduction; Journal of Ideas, Vol. 1, #1, 3-22, 1990] I
>          postulated the emergence of a descendent of homo sapiens.
>          This descendent will be primarily differentiated from h.
>          sapiens by having * substantially  greater cognitive
>          abilities *.

I suggest you read Kurt Vonnegut's wonderful book "Galapagos".  His story of
the foundation of a degenerate race is quite reasonable as far as I could see.

For the other direction, follow the threads in sci.nanotech on superhumans.  It
seems more likely that we will be able to create super-intellegent humans
within the next few centuries than that they will appear by selective
evolution.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov