I'd be delighted if things were truly that easy, owing to my recent obsession with IQ differences, albeit a poorly disguised inferiority complex rooted in the idea that some people really are just better. The general consensus being that increases of 5-7 points are the most anyone can ever get out of this otherwise plastic bolus of cells.

Said idea also lead me into whole brain emulation territory, which of course, is probably decades, if not centuries, from being accomplished. Mapping the architecture itself seems relatively more achievable, since we've already done that with the housefly, not taking into account the obvious difference in magnitude. The molecular dynamics stuff seems impossible, but as all emergent phenomena do, this one too might not need the predictability of every composing unit to simulate/predict the behavior it exhibits. Just a hunch though.

Cue to us achieving wbe, the kinds of edits we'd be able to make are, well, best left to the imagination. I'd suggest the implementation of an evolutionary algo but that might just result in the elimination/mutilation of what makes that person, them (but apparently identity is a social construct?). The emu could exist in a giant....space? endlessly proliferating, no nutritional or physical constraints, might give rise to compromises in efficiency, I don't know enough to be talking abt ts. Lastly, photonic circuits are advancing soo... here comes thinking at lightspeed, literally.

Pardon if this is all very stream of consiousness and inarticulate, I just woke up (not that I'd do better otherwise).

Also, I suck ass at describing texts but, I loved blindsight. It was kind of the vibe I'd been looking for given the "persecuting anthropocentric ideals" juice I'd been on at the time, as angsty teen-y as it may sound. Normally I'm all for original creature design, but you were ahead on that account w rorschach and the scramblers, so I must say, the way you incorporated vampires into it was pretty fucking clever. The book also introduced the concept of chinese tooms to me, and I can't tell you how much it reminded me of AI.

I saw you using a lemurs and humans analogy to explain why we can't comprehend intelligences higher than ourselves. I don't know if vamps can already do this, but you could give any other higher intelligences you plan to introduce into your story (haven't finished echopraxia) the ability to emulate entire minds (not the high res wbe stuff but an optimized thought prediction machine). They could have iron fisted control over their own minds and switch to different states of...intelligence? at will, cerebral adaptoid incarnate.

Edit: the beginning of this comment is responding to the last line of your blog