We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
We all have things in life we'd do over again.
Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.