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Asked by Blathin to Anthea, Chloe, Kevin, Michel, Sean on 12 Nov 2014.
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Michel Dugon answered on 12 Nov 2014:
Yup, human brain keeps changing, rewiring and evolving. In fact, the Human brain has tripled volume in the past 7 million years! AS for the future, it is very difficult to say what will be the next step… But we can consider that with all the new technologies we are developing at the moment (e.g. The Internet and immediate information shared through the world within seconds), our brain will definitely undergo some changes in the coming few hundreds of thousands of years!
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Chloe Kinsella answered on 19 Nov 2014:
Hi there,
Our brains evolved to be much larger than the brains of apes, so I wonder will they continue to evolve and grow larger? If this happened we could increase our brain power, our memory, our ability to process words and vision. But if our brains got larger, then the rest of our organs like our heart would have to increase in size to pump more blood to the brain. We could also evolve so that the connections between our brain cells become wider, possibly making our brain work faster. I believe our brains will evolve to become bigger, or better.
Some futurists suggest that once our brains have evolved to the point of maximum human intelligence, scientists will engineer computer interfaces into our brain and we will become sort of human-computer hybrids. They have even come up with a name for this futuristic species of human, Homo cyberneticus!
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Blathin commented on :
That’s what I thought, thanks!!!