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There's difference between breaking a rule and being caught. Crime pays at least as well as legitimate stock investment.
It's Alive, But Is It Life: Synthetic Biology and the Future of Creation//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU_pfCtSWF4QuoteFor decades, biologists have read and edited DNA, the code of life. Revolutionary developments are giving scientists the power to write it. Instead of tinkering with existing life forms, synthetic biologists may be on the verge of writing the DNA of a living organism from scratch. In the next decade, according to some, we may even see the first synthetic human genome. Join a distinguished group of synthetic biologists, geneticists and bioengineers who are edging closer to breathing life into matter.This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.Original Program Date: June 4, 2016MODERATOR: Robert KrulwichPARTICIPANTS: George Church, Drew Endy, Tom Knight, Pamela SilverQuoteSynthetic Biology and the Future of Creation 00:00Participant Intros 3:25Ordering DNA from the internet 8:10 How much does it cost to make a synthetic human? 13:04Why is yeast the best catalyst 20:10How George Church printed 90 billion copies of his book 26:05Creating synthetic rose oil 28:35Safety engineering and synthetic biology 37:15Do we want to be invaded by bad bacteria? 45:26Do you need a human gene's to create human cells? 55:09The standard of DNA sequencing in utero 1:02:27The science community is divided by closed press meetings 1:11:30The Human Genome Project. What is it? 1:21:45
For decades, biologists have read and edited DNA, the code of life. Revolutionary developments are giving scientists the power to write it. Instead of tinkering with existing life forms, synthetic biologists may be on the verge of writing the DNA of a living organism from scratch. In the next decade, according to some, we may even see the first synthetic human genome. Join a distinguished group of synthetic biologists, geneticists and bioengineers who are edging closer to breathing life into matter.This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.Original Program Date: June 4, 2016MODERATOR: Robert KrulwichPARTICIPANTS: George Church, Drew Endy, Tom Knight, Pamela Silver
Synthetic Biology and the Future of Creation 00:00Participant Intros 3:25Ordering DNA from the internet 8:10 How much does it cost to make a synthetic human? 13:04Why is yeast the best catalyst 20:10How George Church printed 90 billion copies of his book 26:05Creating synthetic rose oil 28:35Safety engineering and synthetic biology 37:15Do we want to be invaded by bad bacteria? 45:26Do you need a human gene's to create human cells? 55:09The standard of DNA sequencing in utero 1:02:27The science community is divided by closed press meetings 1:11:30The Human Genome Project. What is it? 1:21:45
Society does not suffer if I choose to buy a reliable car. Society (at least a civilised society) bears part of the burden if I have a sickly child. What could possibly be the unwanted side effect of my having a healthy child by intention rather than luck? Nobody is replacing displacing or rejecting anything or anyone, just making what I want rather than what chance delivers.
I have concluded that the concept is about existence and well being of future conscious entities.
we need another concept to make distinction between good and bad moral principles. I have concluded that the concept is about existence and well being of future conscious entities..
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/05/2021 06:39:31we need another concept to make distinction between good and bad moral principles. I have concluded that the concept is about existence and well being of future conscious entities.. Indeed healing the sick just means that there will be less food for the next generation.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/05/2021 06:39:31 I have concluded that the concept is about existence and well being of future conscious entities. OK. Actually, it does sound reasonable. Morality is like an organism. It must survive and to do this it must preserve its hosts and/or future hosts.
Like the gene complexes found in biology, memeplexes are groups of memes that are often found present in the same individual. Applying the theory of Universal Darwinism, memeplexes exist because memes copy themselves more successfully when they are "teamed up".
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/05/2021 06:39:31we need another concept to make distinction between good and bad moral principles. I have concluded that the concept is about existence and well being of future conscious entities.. A good moral action is to comfort the dying, or to heal the sick, neither action having any consequence for future entities. Indeed healing the sick just means that there will be less food for the next generation.
Have you considered that the objective reality is not limited by a single planet?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 15/05/2021 09:42:29Have you considered that the objective reality is not limited by a single planet?There being no evidence of moral beings on any other planet, nor any likelihood that the actions of a moral being on this planet could affect anyone on another, I think it foolish to judge the obvious and important in terms of an irrelevant maybe.