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Will the Brain Evolve?
We could be evolving now. Will it be genetically encoded and passed down? So will a new generation following on from you evolve? Will they carry pre coded that information to deal with our digital world? Well, physiological change is no. But then as human beings, because we have the capacity, you might be born a Wall Street billionaire, a fisherman in an Amazonian village. The same central ingredients have to do that. We have to have that limitless flexibility. Maybe that's why our brain will maybe it'll always retain that flexibility - which means by definition, it can't evolve in a distinctive route. Because that's narrowing options. I mean, all the baby giraffe has to do