Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia ; Centre for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich Zürich, Switzerland.
Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Front Syst Neurosci. 2014 Sep 30;8:152. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00152. eCollection 2014.
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.
在过去的二十年中，大脑增强问题引起了相当多的科学关注。在进化到目前的大脑功能状态的过程中，一个被广泛忽视的大脑增强的关键因素是复杂的进化过程。与其他身体器官一样，人类大脑也受到生物适应力的影响。大脑的结构和功能非常复杂，直到现在我们才开始理解认知的一些基本概念。因此，本文提出，脑机接口和益智药不会产生“增强”的大脑，因为我们还不太了解进化压力是如何影响支持人类认知能力的神经网络的。
