Charlie Gordon's Flowers For Algernon

By artificially enhancing the human and animal brain, we risk the 700 million years of evolutionary optimization, and fine tuning. The Nuremberg Code violated Charlie Gordon’s rights in the novel, Flowers for Algernon. The brain may not be capable of the monstrosity of artificially enhancing the human or animal brain through surgery or medicine, and thus no one should be given the right of having their intelligence increased through such procedures.
The Homosapien and Animalia brain has been revolutionizing itself since the creation of the first moving animals on Earth. The generations of creatures both on the land and sea have spent millions of years transforming the brain to be perfectly sound unless stunted to be intellectually challenged. To even consider using a drug, there would have to brain implants connected to millions of neurons, and a control system to synchronize them all. According to io9.com, the …show more content…
By doing this procedure to enhance the intelligence of the brain, there is a major possibility that the brain can “break.” The breaking of the brain happens when we attempt to overclock it, and is similar to an amphetamine addiction. As we know from the fictional story “Flowers for Algernon,” the brain is not that fungible to experimental surgery, and caused serious side effects. The extreme change in the brain could cause horrible seizures, information overload, egomania, ignorance, and extreme alienation. The insanity from gaining mass amounts of information all at once is a very likely possibility. The perturbations to the brain is what is commonly referred to today as “crazy.” From the patient’s perspective, the insanity seems perfectly sane, and would take much time and effort to convince them they are insane. The overall idea of the brain is an object, working to produce life to a body, and to contain all the memories and abilities a human or creature can

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