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Genetically Modified People May Have an IQ of 1000 and higher. At least according to the scientific theory of Professor Stephen Hsu.
Hsu can be considered a deep scholar. His works concern quantum physics, dark energy, finance, information safety, genomics and bioinformatics. He is officially Vice President of Research, State University Michigan, where he heads the Department of Theoretical Physics.
Professor Hsu believes that changing the human genome can dramatically enhance his intellectual abilities. Detailed description theory is given in the journal ArXiv e-prints. Her popular exposition gives nautilus.
How to endow a person with supermind
The possibility of the appearance of supermind is a direct result genetic basis of intelligence. Such characteristics as growth and cognitive abilities control thousands of genes, and each of them they have a small impact, ”Hsu writes.
Based on previous studies of the genome, Hsu believes that with intelligence is associated with about 10,000 genetic variants. If by the settings of each of them we will be able to get the right version, then, by According to him, we can create human beings with an indicator mental development is 100 times higher than average. It corresponds to IQ in over 1000 points.
Hsu is a scientific consultant to BGI (formerly Beijing Institute of Genomics), as well as one of the founders of its Laboratory cognitive genomics. According to rumors that appeared last year, BGI sequencing the genomes of 2000 of the smartest people on the planet output of the superintelligent generation that can raise IQ nation.
Hsu and BGI are not the only ones who predict the appearance of overmind through genetic enhancement. In its recent published book “Superintelligence” director created in Oxford Institute for the Future of Humanity Nick Bostrom agrees the fact that genetics is the key to the emergence of superintelligent people. Genetic screening of embryos before implantation could help parents find and select embryos with alleles that define high level of intelligence. Bostrom hopes further the development of genetic engineering will make possible the synthesis of genomes in specification, which greatly simplifies the task.
According to Bostrom, in the future technology will allow embryo preferred combination of genes transmitted from each from parents, and genes that are not inherent to them, which only a small number of people in the world. Such a mix can have serious positive effect on cognitive abilities children.
Dangerous games with the genome
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Hsu believes that in this way you can develop abilities higher, than any of the 100 billion people who have ever lived on Earth:
Imagine the abilities of the greatest minds humanity at its maximum will be present at one individual. This is almost perfect playback. images and speech, ultrafast thinking and calculations, strong geometric visualization, even in higher dimensions; the ability to simultaneously and simultaneously solve many analytical and mental tasks. This list can proceed.
The prospect that on the same planet with ordinary people will be living “superhuman” whose greatness was so glorified by the philosopher Frederick Nietzsche in his work “So Said Zarathustra,” scares. Close attention deserves appropriate moral issues that will have to be resolved before such opportunities will become a reality.
Some countries may legalize gene modification of children earlier others. Obviously, the elite will get access to technology first, which will be able to endow itself and its children with supermind. But we will hope that the fruits of genetic engineering can take advantage everyone, otherwise we are waiting for such an inequality, which still never been in the history of mankind.
