[ExI] A human fox among the mice

[Anders Sandberg]

Rather cool: the human version of the FOXP2 gene makes mice learn stimulus-response associations faster, especially when declarative and procedural memory need to work together:http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/genetics/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-human-speech-gene-it-learns-faster-17210075?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1457_88800754
Original paper:http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/11/1414542111
Apropos enhancement, check out the series on enhancing virtues by the IEET guys. Lots of good references there.http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/cyborgbuddha


Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
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