source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15891104-13762,00.html#1
"In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Critics argue that if these fetuses are allowed to develop into self-aware subjects, science will be thrown into an ethical nightmare...
Science WILL be thrown into an ethical nightmare!
Experienced theologins will HAVE to tell science the answers to the following questions:
Do these monkeys posess "the breath of life" referred to in Genesis?
Can these monkeys go to heaven or hell?
Is America's sence of puritanical values really the best value set to force on the world?
But wait, there's more.
"An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and may in fact produce subjects with a 'super-animal' intelligence.
I understand. So what you're saying is that it's more important that we not have a few super-intelligent monkeys (like, say one's that we could play chess with) and that people with brain damage be left to rot? Sounds ethical to me.
Soli - 8/07/2005 05:59:00 PM
Pffft. Ethics are a subjective standard - not an absolute.
Anyhow, I vote for the creation of super-intelligent monkeys. Actually, no. I want super-intelligent tigers and lions and sharks and such, so they can more easily eat the humans who would no doubt persist in proslytizing, annoying, harassing, and generally holding back progress because of their mythical daddy-figures. The cure for fundamentalism is at hand! ;-p
Chuck - 8/07/2005 10:38:00 PM
Ethics are nothing more than the algorithm of altruism (See The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins) filtered through the seive of modern religion and social norms. It's really nothing more than simple math that gets convoluted into something subjective.
But could the non-fundys control the super-intelligent animals and prevent them from eating us?
- 11/16/2005 03:36:00 PM
Noone can fathom what would come of a super ape, im sure the same people who say this is bad are the same people who fear artificial intelligence will kill us in the future. Who really cares? Oh no! this monkey just beat me in checkers! *kills self* Nobody cares.
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