Limitless

This trimester I am taking Psychology and we have recently begun talking about the brain, it's different internal regions and the receptors used to function. This has all been pretty interesting so when my roommate wanted to see Limitless yesterday I was all for it.
The story is about a normal down on his luck wannabe writer (Eddie) who is dealing with writer's block, his girlfriend just broke up with him and he runs into his ex-brother-in-law. His brother-in-law decides to help him out and gives him one pill called NZT that is supposed to help clear his mind. He takes it and all of a sudden is brain is working at 100% rather than 20%. (We can only access 20% of our brains) He is more aware, he thinks clearer, is smarter, more confident than any man alive, and everything that he has seen, read and heard is organized and instantly available to him. After the pill wears off he sees his brother-in-law again because he wants more. He bargains for more than he wants when he discovers his brother-in-law has been murdered and he takes his stash. He starts to rise to the top of financial world and draws the attention of top mogul Carl Van Loon, who sees Eddie as an asset and gives him the biggest merger, in the financial world, to head up. Along the way Eddie is being chased by hit men who want this drug and he has to keep taking it to elude them. Along the way he discovers that in order to stay alive he has to keep taking the drug or else he will slip into a coma and die.
Now I'm not going to give away the ending although I pretty much just outlined the whole movie but I just wanted to talk about the idea of this drug. The possibility of a drug that will let you access your whole brain is scary. I mean the thought of it is cool but when you think about it, it's dangerous.

First, it would be amazing to be smart, to not have to go to school anymore and to have full access to your brain, but there is a reason why we can't. God created us this way, he designed us and has a reason for why we can only access 20% of our brains. If we could all be the way Eddie was in the movie, would we need God? He wants to to rely fully on him but with a pill like NZT or natural full access to our brains would we become a world full of selfishness and idolatry, not that we aren't already, but would it be more intense than it is now? Would we idolize ourselves even more?

Secondly, there is a reason why we have a conscious and subconscious. This was one thing I noticed about the film. If our subconscious locks away memories that we suppress, then why when Eddie had full access to his brain, was he not shocked at all the things that he had suppressed for some reason because it was damaging or traumatizing? When people have remembered something that their brain has put away to never remember again, they usually have to go to therapy to get through it. With NZT would we all have to go to therapy or would we just suck it up and deal with it with the possibility of going insane? Were we created with a subconscious so that we would be able to function and fulfill the purpose that God has created us for; to glorify Him and to spread His word to all the nations.

What do you think? I think this is an interesting concept and makes one wonder.