Imagine going back to two million years ago and talking to primates, if you could do that, and saying,
"Isn't it great, the frontal cortex is coming, and you're going to have the additional neocortex?" And they'd say, "What's the point of that?" And you'd say, "Well, you'll have music, and humor." And their answer would be, "What's music? What's humor?"
They couldn't imagine concepts that they couldn't imagine. By analogy, I think we will have new phenomena that are as profound as music, and humor. You could call it more profound music, and it will be funnier, but I think it will be as profound as these great leaps that evolution has brought us, because we will become profoundly smarter.
If music and humor are up here, and we go to even higher levels of the neocortex, we're going to have more profound ways of expressing ourselves. And once we have that, we would not want to go back.
