"society is founded not on the ideals of man but on the nature of man, and the constitution of man rewrites the constitutions of states." --will & ariel durant

most people believe that human nature is fixed, but the truth is that it can be edited.

recent advances in neural engineering, improvements in RNA-sequencing technologies, and ever-falling sequence costs have changed the problem of obtaining a mechanistic understanding of the brain into a merely technical problem—a prerequisite for augmenting our evolutionarily-stagnant neural hardware.