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Old Nov 22, 2012, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Vibe View Post

However, if it were going to have a Flowers for Algernon type of effect - even if there was a known risk of death at some point - I would still be tempted to take it. I very much enjoy my intellectual pursuits and I think this world needs far more intellectualism. These days we revel in ignorance. The things I could do and think and understand before I died would make the potential loss worthwhile to me.

but that book was... dystopic novel. Hence "not such a good idea even if we could".
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