- Is true longevity actually living as a brain in a jar, because as long as your intellect is bound to your physical organs and you are not heavily protecting this intellect substrate from bad actors, you can be killed very easily. This would be the most protectable form of life, but it could be the case that direct biological fiber connections to your senses (better connections from brain to eye being better than using the fiber connections of the optic nerve and fuse them to a camera) - the tech of curing blindness will be used here as well
- Why are we not cloning humans without a cortex, just the stem brain for organ transplantation / head transplantation...?
- What are the biggest challenges of head transplantation procedure besides nerve fiber fusion. What do we learn from the experiment in rats, and monkeys?
- Why do we not have artificial wombs yet, what processes are happening in the womb which we do not understand?
- How can we fuse nerve fibers?
- What are the downstream biological mechanisms of IQ increasing genes?
- What life do we want to live? Is the superhuman idea of life (increasing IQ, increasing capability to create) actually not really pleasurable?
- Do we need to make a decision of either becoming superhuman (brain in the jar) or staying human (experiencing your biological body, feeling the sun on your skin, hearing with your ears, feeling the body of your loved ones, seeing the world directly through your eyes) because becoming fully superhuman in a biological substitute is physically limited?
- What's the neuroscience of intelligence? Density of neurons in the prefrontal cortex, neurotypes/neurotransmitter baseline which is closer to being on Adderall than low IQ genes (this would explain why high IQ people are not having a big effect of taking Adderall compared to lower IQ ones)
- By how many points could we increase IQ through genetic engineering?
- How can we improve human memory without the need for constant reinforcement (flashcards, working on a project)?
- how does post agi economics look like?
- How do we achieve AGI? What's the difference between the brain's compute/learning mechanisms/architecture vs cutting-edge machine learning? whats so special about human intellect? are we just upscaled non-human-primates?
- How can we encourage older people to just be curious again, instead of only learning things if they help in a business sense? How can we create more artists of science and engineering who love the craft, not the game?
- Are the mechanisms of the brain Turing computable or is there something happening on a quantum scale which is significantly affecting our experience?
- Isn't it fundamentally flawed to conceptualize physical phenomena solely through discrete scales—such as the quantum level (e.g., subatomic particles) and macroscopic matter—when these scales are inherently interconnected and emergent properties arise across multiple levels of organization?
- It seems pretty unlikely that the intelligences on Earth (humans and animals, etc.) are the only intelligences in existence at all. Are there other intelligences in the physical/material universe?
- Matter is not fundamental, computation seems to be more fundamental than matter, so intelligence/consciousness seems to be more fundamental than matter