this flowers-for-algernon scenario is definitely not a metaphor for a bunch of upright thumby monkeys being given the gift of self-reflection but then having to face self-knowledge of senescence and death.
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only ppl with IQs lower than 80 can go through a surgery to increase their IQ to 180 for a year or so before regressing back to 80. this provides value for hoomanity but at the cost of subjecting one to an existential crisis. this is:
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