Engineering the Minds of the Future: An Intergenerational Approach to Cognitive Technology

The first part of this article makes the case that human cognition is an intergenerational project enabled by inheritance and bequeathal cognitive technology (Sects. 2–4). final two sections 5 6) explore normative significance claim. My for claim draws results from multiple disciplines: philosophy (Sect. 2), cultural evolutionary approaches in science 3), developmental psychology neuroscience 4). In Sect. 5, I propose should be given to future generations accordance with principles pluralism transparency. main section article, 6, apply these topics such as preservation information, environmental offloading cognition, thinking itself.