# Humanity Could Engineer a Cambrian Explosion of Body and Mind by Andy Clark > “As we learn to celebrate our own potential, we will embrace ever-more-dramatic variations in bodily form and in our effective cognitive profiles. The humans of the next century will be vastly more heterogeneous, more varied along physical and cognitive dimensions, than those of the past as we deliberately engineer a new Cambrian explosion of body and mind.” > **— Andy Clark**, *“Celebratory Self Re-Engineering,” Edge Annual Question, 2009* ## Sources and Context - **Direct full source and exact passage:** [“Celebratory Self Re-Engineering,” Edge Annual Question, 2009](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10385) — Clark forecasts deliberate bodily and cognitive variation using wearable, implantable, prosthetic, and biological tools. This is an anticipatory vision, not an achieved capability or a mandate attributed to other authors. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Article:** [[articles/Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History|Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Self-Directed Evolution|Self-Directed Evolution]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Self-Directed Evolution|Self-Directed Evolution]] - [[wiki/Transhumanism|Transhumanism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “As we learn to celebrate our own potential, we will embrace ever-more-dramatic variations in bodily form and in our effective cognitive profiles. The humans of the next century will be vastly more heterogeneous, more varied along physical and cognitive dimensions, than those of the past as we deliberately engineer a new Cambrian explosion of body and mind.” — Andy Clark, “Celebratory Self Re-Engineering,” Edge Annual Question, 2009 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-andy-clark-cambrian-explosion-body-mind ```