Tuesday, May 02, 2023

THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU: Gene editing can now change an entire species


Over the course of a lifetime, one thinks about Bible stories from time to time. Even an atheist should consider them as at least archetypal or apocryphal story which has value in terms of defining the human experience. Much like we all think about dystopian future science fiction films these days and try and see which ones are true in some senses. 
When the internet really started to get going, it seemed like maybe the Tower of Babel was more a prediction than an account. More likely though, that story and many others are probably accounts of cyclic events that are more or less inevitable when human nature rubs up against certain circumstances. 
The following video could be an example of Pandora’s Box, from Greek cautionary tales, or the expulsion from the Garden of Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge. 
Mind you the same could be said of Chat GPT and a few other recent breakthroughs. But all of them share a similar threat value to our existence and even perception of it.

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