Genetic engineering

(Already with us in is primary phase with test tube babies) can alter chromosomal properties to include favorable qualities and exclude other. Thus, can the further have made-to-order babies with analytical/ poetic/ linguistic/ mathematical minds? Therefore like present-day classes and castes, will the future be segregated by kind’s intelligence? Worth thinking about.

A.   One answer is diet. According to Dr. Richard Wartman of the MIT, three compounds may contain the answer.

1.    One is tryptophan, which becomes cerotonin, which regulates appetite and motor impulses.

2.    The second is chorine, who becomes Nor-epinephrine that regulates memory, buried skills sudden flashes of intuition etc.

3.    The third is tyrosine, which becomes Nor-epinephrine that regulates blood pressure, depression, aggression, motivation, and inspiration.

B.   Another answer is genetics. Called “Eugenics” a genius mother and a genius father will probably produce a genius child. This is not as simple as that, obviously. More of trial and error, with test-tube babies and artificial insemination one can expect tailor-made chromosomes to be merged to produce the super-intelligent babies, or super sportsmen, or even super-smart businessmen. At present, it is like the Einstein actress error. A lovely actress invited Einstein to inseminate her so that the offspring could have Einstein’s brain and the actress’s look, ‘said Einstein, “Fine, and Ma’am. But I dread to think what should happen if the child had instead my look and your brain”.

C.   A third way out is transplants. But it is still a tricky area. The supposition is if a Keralite’s brain tissue were transplanted into a Bengali’s brain, would he speak Malyalam?

It has been found that brain transplants (grafts of tissues) are accepted by, other brains, remarkably well, at least in mice & dogs. Other body organs are fussier. The brain does not bother. As to whether it will pick up memories, attitudes, skills, from the donor brain is tough to answer. Only an actual experiment can tell. If it does, there may be a sudden clamor for brains of dying geniuses to be transplanted on to healthy humans.

D.   The fourth way is to begin early. Tan your body before he or she is able to even walk. How? By inducting a concerted, playful interest in specifics. Parents in the US and Japan are just about doing it this way. Instead of toy guns, give him a home computer instead of dolls, give him a violin, instead of teaching Baba Black sheep, teach him applied mechanics, instead of teaching him Ding Dong Bell, teach him medical anatomy.

Though this can be harmful in the long run parents are giving it a try. Any way! It has gone to such an extreme that California obstetrician Dr. F Rene Van de Carr teaches mothers how to indoctrinate the fetus inside their wombs to take an interest in Mathematics, Arts, Physics, Chemistry, Computer studies, Sports and even Economic. (As said in Mahabharata that Abhimanyu learned the Chakarayuoh in the womb of his mother). His clientele? Anxious success oriented women, His business? Booming, but then anything sells in California.

The best answer of all is motivation. Almost 99% of the genius on earth was borne ordinary humans most in fact were malnourished persecuted, ridiculed spat at, imprisoned, and hounded. Yet, the most beautiful works of art, music, painting, and even scientific achievement has come from the so-called wretched of the earth. No ivory tower genius is as famous, anyway.

But the fact remains that the brain thrives under motivation and pressure. And, self-motivation seems to be the only shortcut to genius and to greater achievements. Can this be emulated- by transplants or artificial means, by computer?

Neurologists and computer scientists are now working on hypothesis that a machine can be built to simulate the human brain. But is that feasible even by one millionth of the percent?

The human being today or tomorrow is going to defy all known laws of science, nature, and life and come up with endurance capacities that seems baffling and impossible.

Consider Helen Keller. Blind deaf and dumb from an early age, she developed her sense of smell to such an extent that she could identify personal friends from their odorous.

Take Russian Lieutenant I M Chisove. Who fell from a height of 21,980 feet from a damaged plane on a steep side of a snow-covered mountain, slid to the bottom, broke his pelvis, but survived in otherwise good health.

Mark Twain Borne in 1835 when Haley’s comet appeared. He died in 1910. Nobody knows how, or why, yet that such a prediction should come true, but it did and twain died a natural death.

Man’s present day limits are weird enough; there is no need to look to the future at least in this respect, when some super-human is with us today.