Re: CRISPR: Human Animal Chimeras
Read about this, it raises a fascinating question: at which point would something be considered too human? I guess at this stage it's impossible to answer since we don't know how human neurons would interact with whatever other species' and how this would impact their cognition. But there is also the seeming ethical double standard of why doing this to something with human neurons in its brain is wrong, but when it's a regular animal it's fine. Especially since many behaviours once thought unique to humans have been found in other animals as well, which raises the question of how different their experience is to our own. Obviously no other animal can reason and understand things the way we do, but we don't consider it wrong to experiment on people because of this, otherwise doing it on babies before they're old enough to understand then killing them would be fine. If it's really just about avoiding suffering then why is it just that humans and some animals humans are particularly attached to are entitled to this? For example doing to dogs what is done to many other animals would be considered cruel and unacceptable, but only because people empathise with some animals like dogs much more than others.
On the other hand this could have very beneficial results, a lot of people die while waiting on long organ recipient lists, and if this takes off it could save a lot of those lives.
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