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Friday, July 15, 2005
Bad news from CP
What a downer. [T]his means that we will not be creating a super race of feral man-pigs.
4 Comments:
I liked the part about creating mice with human brains. That would serve as a nice counterpart to all the humans in the Bush administration who have mice brains.
By 
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1:15 PM
This of course raises the question, "If you could cross a gorilla with a human and teach him to play football what position what you want him to play?" It has long been established that a regular gorilla is best played at RB, but with an added level of intelligence one could try to make the case that a defensive position might be productive.
You gotta love the human chimeras. I agree, a gorilla would be tough to stop as a running back. However, could it compete with the elusiveness of a jackrabbit? It's tough to say. :)
My all time favorite hypothetical human chimera experiment is still the mice with human sperm and egg that could theoretically give birth to a human child.
Right now, I'm doing some research on the possibility that these human chimeras could be patented. Currently, there are a few patents out on living creatures. The SCOTUS has ruled that microorganisms can be patented and it is widely believed that this decision extends to more complex organisims like mice or puppies. Let's say that we created a mouse with a human brain. Let's say the mouse had human consciousness. Aside from all the questions that would arise about our place in the cosmos, would it be ethical to "own" this humanly conscious being?
Human chimeras are one of the most interesting ethical problems in the world. It's really too bad that they have to be decided on by congress.
Brownback is obviously not up to the task as his first draft of the Human Chimera Prohibition Act banned all normal human procreation.
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By , at
6:59 PM
Jambo, as we all know, gorillas tend to be passive creatures. Your gorilla fullback will stand around waiting to be tackled -- unless he takes off running the wrong way.
On the other hand, my gorilla offensive tackle will be a perennial pro bowler. He will take up a ton of space and push away anyway who tries to get near the banana-scented quarterback.
More seriously, it seems like the root question in all of this is whether we are just bags of tissue, divisible at will, or something more than the sum of our parts.
