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It's not about morality. It is the fundamental nature of the cell to mutate. The fact that multicellular organisms have managed to get this far is quite amazing
by dkarapetyan 12y ago
It's not about morality. It is the fundamental nature of the cell to mutate. The fact that multicellular organisms have managed to get this far is quite amazing but you'd be foolish to think those cells are anything more than selfish self-replicating mutation engines. So really at the end of the day all life extending research is about changing the fundamental nature of the cell which is an impossible goal.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoWhy impossible? A cell is but a complex nanoscale machine. There's nothing fundamental about it that says it's The Right Way. But if you mean the fundamental nature of evolution process, its mathematics, then well - we don't have to change it, we just need to harness it. Just like we didn't change the explosive nature of gasoline, we harnessed it for our purposes. We're no longer in the domain of gene-based evolution anyway - our minds are smarter than it, and thanks to our ability to write things down, we advanced into cultural-level evolution, which works orders of magnitude faster than the biological kind. There is no law of nature that says we can't just decide we like living and then enforce our will on nature.