Artificial Intelligence, No, not robots and that sort Options

[Simba]

So I just finished reading some of the book Flowers for Algernon for school. It's about a mentally retarded man volunteering to be part of a surgery/experiment that will try to make his IQ three times higher than what it was.

I've heard that some scientists today are trying to accomplish this.

What do you guys think about artificially raising a person's IQ? What do you think would happen if everybody, or most people received that sort of surgery?

Just wondering what some of you guys think about this sort of thing.

[Simba]

Alright, well what about having mentally impaired people take the surgery?

[sakaitone]

I don't think average people should get any smarter. They're fine the way they are. Lots of smart people are doing useless things that aren't helping the world. Scientist have created botox, viagra and wieght loss pills but they can't find a cure to cancer, aids and etc. Lots of smart people are using thier mind for material gains.

I think if mentally retarded people want to be smart, then let them take the surgery. I don't think that every mentally inpaired person should get surgery but only if they want to. In the book Charlie said that even a feeble minded person wants to be like any other man or something like that. If they want to get the surgery to fit in because lots of people look down on mentally retarded people but honestly I think they're fine just the way they are. I mean most mentally retarded people are really loving, trusting and honest making them, a really rare kind of person.