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There will still exist a fascinating dichotomy, up until we can predict result without either simulation or animal models. An ideal engineered organism would be
by ganzuul 7y ago
There will still exist a fascinating dichotomy, up until we can predict result without either simulation or animal models. An ideal engineered organism would be a delightfully weird homunculus, and a sufficiently advanced simulation could be deemed to be a living creature too.
Perhaps it is best to make sure that lab technicians feel a great deal of empathy for the animals they work with.
- asciimo 7y agoHave to be careful, though. Too much empathy and you'll quit your job.
- ganzuul 7y agoI would hope instead that they refuse to do certain procedures. Then if someone else gets asked to do the same procedure in hope of less empathy there should be alarms going off. The lab technicians will after all be the experts on the subject; not academics on an ethics board.