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> We might be messing with our brains more than we think, that's the point of this article.

That's simply always true.

Since prehistory:

- We eat foods we never used to eat

- We live in larger groups

- We discovered a whole bunch of drugs/medicines.

- Artificial light

- Artificial strength

Now artificial information. Sure, take precautions, try to think about what you're changing. Try to understand the tradeoffs.

The cat is well out of the bag however.



Yeah, and countless people since prehistory have died or been significantly worse off because they simply didn't know better. Now we have science to help us figure things out before natural selection drives us away from unhealthy behaviour.


We're already posthuman so we might as well lean in.




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