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Great point Paul. The worlds population also scares the shit out of me. It
is, in my opinion, our No. 1 problem. This is caused by mans stupidity and
inability to face and deal with this problem. Unless mankinds intelligence
and awareness rapidly increase, we are in trouble. I see genetics as one way
that the intelligence of human beings can increase rapidly enough to get out
of the distructive patterns we are in. The over-population thing is solved
by people stopping having babies. Simple!! This means letting go of the
beliefs that getting married, having kids etc is what lifes about. Its
another paradigm shift - away from quantity an more towards quality. There
are enough of us now.
Ummm... controversial stuff.
Thanks for your views Paul.
Magna
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> All this genetics scares the s**t out of me, we barely have enough space
in
> the world for the population at the moment, especially at the rate the
> population is growing. Soon most countries will have 'one baby per family'
> rubbish going on.
> That would upset alot of 16 year old girls in Bracknell ;)
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> > Being Devil's advocate on the genetics issue again...
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> > A team of researchers at Princeton University have modified a gene in
mice
> > which affects memory, and claim / appear to have produced a smarter
mouse.
> The
> > premise is that this may help people 'someday'.
> >
>
> Thanks for the link Martian - its facinating stuff. I saw it on the BBC's
> site also. Genetics is moving along at an incredible pace. I reckon within
> the next 10 or 20 years they will be able to stop (or at least radically
> slow down) aging. The Immortal, superintelligent man may be just round the
> corner.
>
> Have you noticed though how most the comments they make about this are
> things like it may help people with disfunctional memory, or some other
> mental disease. Not it could make ordinary people more intelligent. This
is
> indicative of the whole paradigm the medical world is operating under and
> also the way most people think about these things as a consequence. For
> example in America the only way the FDA can license a drug is IF it treats
a
> disease. This means that if someone found a drug which increased your IQ
by
> 25 points and made you live 20 years longer it would be given approval by
> the FDA (unless of course it treated some disease as a side effect, but
then
> of course the doctor would only give it to you if you had that disease).
Is
> this MADNESS or what?
>
> I'm all for creating a better man through science. We are at a magic time
> when we can start to take our evolution into our own hands and the world
> governments seems to have their heads up their ass.
>
> I'd be interested to hear some other views from people on this list on
this
> issue. Anyone??
>
> Magna
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