Adam Piore

An interesting overview of basically how weird our bodies and brains are and how to take advantage of that weirdness to help people. Piore talks about the ethical lines a bit...where's the line between helping people to function normally and helping people become super-human, or using this technology for nefarious purposes like making them think or behave differently based on your own ideas of how it is moral to think or behave. I did disagree with him on one point - he said he was relieved to know that we still hadn't cracked the why's behind things like creativity and love, because some things should just stay mysterious. I say nah. I'm not one to think that knowing how or why something works makes it less beautiful or meaningful.… (meer)