Cloning a Human
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If there was ever an argument for cloning a human, I think this specimen could present a logical argument for cloning, scientifically based, to test such things the blank slate theory. Given that its biology is 5.300 hundred years old, we would assume in cloning the developed brain mass after cloning would reflect that time period. I wonder if the clones cognitive ability/capacity would be limited, by that biology, or could the clone, regardless of genetic material, adapt. It would be truly interesting if we could recover enough of a sample to clone this human. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-zink-science/ |
The Question would be.......
........................when does life begin?
To clone something is not that hard for scientists But if you clone human cells are you going to grow the cells to a fixed point in a lab - or in a live female in hopes of getting a real person? Once the fetus becomes viable would it not be a person with their own rights? There is talk in some circles of cloning yourself for spare parts - just at some point in the process you suck out the brain. |
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He would be closer in time to the builders than we are. http://www.timstouse.com/EarthHistor...stingfacts.htm I don't buy the assumption that people in the past were less intelligent. They just didn't have the benefit of accumulated knowledge we have. |
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They didn't have powerpoint. |
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Maybe I watched "Army of Darkness" one too many times. |
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If evolution is a reality, he might be MORE intelligent. After all, we've removed so many of the hazards from the environment and made it so tame that unprecedented numbers of intellectual defectives are surviving to breed; thereby diluting the gene pool, and dumbing down the entire species. :munchin
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The Industrial Revolution was brought about by men with an 8th grade edumacation (at best). And 99% of civilization by people with no formal education.
Pat p.s.: "edumacation" got through the spell check. ;) |
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Couldn't be duplicated today even with our modern equipment. :munchin |
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That said, I think its an entirely different matter with regard to intelligence. Broadsword, you are correct, many would consider your statement racist. Intelligence is not related to poverty, cognitive ability/IQ varies, but what creates poverty is economic, and that dynamic directly relates to access to education; which we all know is the great divider in social structure/class. People tend to marry within their culture group, and region. But, I do think there is a conditioning process, whereby repetitive action disconnects certain pathways in the brain. People in NJ are known as aggressive drivers, they tailgate at 80mph on the NJ/TRPK all day long, and merge effortlessly; this may be the result of all the tunnels, bridges, and on/off ramps that have made them the envy of the nation amateur NASCAR drivers, while drivers in PA never merge, drive ridiculously slow, and disturbingly blindly it seems, in one lane. Never allowing for a smooth flow. I think they are brain dead, but they still have the capacity to learn; and can, its a conditional process. |
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People are not born (or cloned) with an understanding of tools, construction, math, strategy, etc. Cloned humans would be born with a blank slate, just like the rest of us. Our knowledge and experience make us what we are. Evolution is rarely fast, in the big scheme of things. Odds are, the 5,000 year old clone would be whatever you taught and trained him to be, whether it was a hunter, a fry cook, a rocket scientist, or a soldier. Physiologically, I doubt that you could tell the difference over 5,000 years. If the clone ate our diet, had our medical and dental care, etc., they would be regular people, just like us. TR |
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