Tsvi B. T. (TSVIBT)

Treat adult brains with those signaling molecules.

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Due to evolved modularity, organic systems are governed by genomic regulatory networks.

Maybe we can isolate and artificially activate GRNs that generate physiological states that produce cognitive capabilities not otherwise available in a default adult's brain.

The hope is that there's a very small set of master regulators that can turn on larger circuits with strong orchestrated effects, as is the case with hormones, so that treatments are relatively simple, high-leverage, and discoverable.

For example, maybe we could replicate the signaling context that activates childish learning capabilities, or maybe we could replicate the signaling context that activates parietal problem-solving in more brain tissue.

I haven't looked into this enough to know whether or not it makes sense.

This is a copy nature's work approach.

Nature knows more about how to make brains that are good at thinking than what is expressed in a normal adult human.

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Who knows what negative effects might result?

Learning windows might be irreversibly lost after childhood, for example by long-range connections being irrecoverably pruned.

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Brain-brain electrical interface approaches.

Brain-computer interfaces don't obviously give an opportunity for large increases in creative philosophical problem-solving ability.

See the discussion in Prosthetic Connectivity.

The fundamental problem is that we, programming the computer part, don't know how to write code that does transformations that will be useful for neural minds.

But brain-brain interfaces, adding connections between brain tissues that normally aren't connected, might increase those abilities.

These approaches use electrodes to read electrical signals from neurons, then transmit those signals, perhaps compressed, filtered, transformed, through wires or fiber optic cables or EM waves, then write them to other neurons through other electrodes.

These are a copy nature's work of approaches, in the sense that we think nature made neurons that know how to arrange themselves usefully when connected with other neurons.