Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"?
It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are
chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful
tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality,
you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Looking God in the Eye"
It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are
chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful
tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality,
you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Looking God in the Eye"
Related:
- Technological advance is an inherently iterative process.
One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce... - What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony,
is no more than information before the senses, data... - If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras,
perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a... - Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play
dice,
the dice are loaded. -- Chairman Sheng-ji... - My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker,
or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's... - We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life
consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive
frames of a watchvid.
Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start... - Data: "We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain.
I have pores, humans have pores. I have fingerprints... - Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to
say in those awkward situations?
Worry no more... When are you going to grow up? ... - I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance...
