“Messing with the mindâ€: evolutionary challenges to human brain augmentation
Autor: | Maciej Henneberg, James P. Grantham, Jaliya Kumaratilake, Arthur Saniotis |
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Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Saniotis, Arthur |
Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
2805 Cognitive Neuroscience
memory formation Cognitive Neuroscience 2804 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Subject (philosophy) 610 Medicine & health lcsh:RC321-571 2806 Developmental Neuroscience Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience medicine Memory formation hominin brain Biological adaptation brain-machine interfaces lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Cognitive science Cognition Human brain Structure and function medicine.anatomical_structure 2801 Neuroscience (miscellaneous) brain size nootropic agents 11294 Institute of Evolutionary Medicine Perspective Article Brain size 570 Life sciences biology Psychology Neuroscience |
Zdroj: | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Vol 8 (2014) |
ISSN: | 1662-5137 |
Popis: | The issue of brain augmentation has received considerable scientific attention over the last two decades. A key factor to brain augmentation that has been widely overlooked are the complex evolutionary processes which have taken place in evolving the human brain to its current state of functioning. Like other bodily organs, the human brain has been subject to the forces of biological adaptation. The structure and function of the brain, is very complex and only now we are beginning to understand some of the basic concepts of cognition. Therefore, this article proposes that brain-machine interfacing and nootropics are not going to produce “augmented” brains because we do not understand enough about how evolutionary pressures have informed the neural networks which support human cognitive faculties. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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