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"text": "[I’m shocked that this post is on topic for this sub, but the rules explicitly allow human enhancement discussions, so…]\n\nI see where you’re going, although I’m doubtful that your altered states of consciousness had significantly more “bandwidth” than your normal one. And if you couldn’t apply it to anything notable, does it really matter? Unless you’re doing eight digit long division in your head (and writing down answers correctly) then I’d be way more likely to say it was, well, all in your head.\n\nThat said, to your question of “what will it take for organic evolution to match the speed of the technological one”, then I’d say immediate and conscious control of almost all bodily processes. \n\nOnce we can manually choose and control nutrient absorption, organ function, tissue repair, gene expression, and neural pathways, *then* we’ll be able to update ourselves like we do technology.\n\nAnd I don’t even mean with thoughts alone. If we can achieve those things via implants then it would work just as well. If I can tell my stomach implant not to absorb too many carbs, or my immune implant to target specific cancers or repair certain tissues differently, or my brain implant to give me less reward for a behavior I want to change, *then* we’ll be there.\n\nIt isn’t about bandwidth, it’s about control of biological processes at their smallest level. And control interfaces via implants are just as good as anything.",
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