Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:09:20 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
(in article <LaCdnYNKsZYLqrjbnZ2dnUVZ_oKnnZ2d@comcast.com>):

> In a sense, we are always engaged in creating intelligences
> greater than our own (or so we hope)--our children.
> 
> And there is evidence that our brighter children can take either
> the course of losing respect for their parents because of their
> flawed judgements, or of appreciating them as well-intentioned
> despite their limitations.  Often children progress from one
> point of view to the other as they mature and gain perspective.

Intelligence is obviously very valuable for survival. Look at the way the 
size of the human head has outpaced the female pelvis and made birth 
dangerous. For most of human development I suspect the biggest brained kids 
died in birth or killed the mother or both. I wonder if you engineered a 
better birth canal, would you raise the aggregate IQ of the human race?

Better choice is to engineer a more compact brain. There has to be a better 
way. Do we really still need the reptile complex?

-- Charlie Springer