By now you realize that the deep-reading brain is both a real, flesh-and-cranial-bone reality and a metaphor for the continuous expansion of human intelligence and virtue. If sometimes I am too fearful about short-circuiting it in future generations, I simultaneously hope and trust in this circuit’s pluripotential capacities to embody all of our species’ exponentially growing intellectual, affective, and moral faculties. This is our generation’s hinge moment: the time when we decide to take the true measure of our lives. If we act wisely at this cultural, cognitive crossroads, I believe, not
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