Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
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If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.
allowing boy certainly couple injured preference
When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
complexity
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
people
A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same.
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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.
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In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.
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Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
beings guts human
No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
disappear geographic
Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.
everybody
Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.
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The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
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Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
people
There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
people
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.