( In those few moments of greatest clarity I can glimpse an extreme state that I

( In those few moments of greatest clarity I can glimpse an extreme state that I see no reason could not be experienced as a norm – where relations are subtle, effortless, and the faint whispers of associations that we strain to hear in the silence and darkness are instead as present and richly experienced as the taste and smell of the meal before us. my suspicion is that two things must occur in unison for this to happen. First that we must discover the remaining properties of reason and reality so that we reduce the burden of error, and second, that we discover a superior means of education, and third that we reduce the cost of neural transmission. My view (given my experimentation with neurological enhancement) is that what we consider to be around 140 today, seems a reachable median with our current physiology. I am suspicious of larger numbers since every example I have seen is not in fact an improvement, but a specialization that compensates for a defect. And because every measure I have seen says that the brain is a very expensive organ, and that it’s closer than we imagine to operating at the capacity of the rate of chemical changes by which we transmit information. Or put another way, if our brains get bigger it may not help us. We can only make them get less tired, clean cellular deposits more quickly, transmit information more easily, and accumulate and avoid error more easily through better initial information.)