Morality experts

2020-06-22 Thread John Clark
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is complaining about several promising COVID-19 vaccines because they were manufactured with the help of cells from a fetus that was aborted way back in 1972. It's too bad these experts on morality didn't express the same moral outrage when they heard about

Re: Smarter monkeys through Genetic Engineering?

2020-06-22 Thread Lawrence Crowell
It goes beyond just highly intelligent people. Complex brains did not evolve as such by adding neurons, but also with subtle recursive feedback loops to regulate it. For instance some personality disorders are linked to genes that express dysfunctional isozymes of monoamine oxidase

Re: Smarter monkeys through Genetic Engineering?

2020-06-22 Thread Lawrence Crowell
When it comes to space colonization or a permanent presence in space we must have some clear positive economic feedback. It is of no use to build a base or colony on the moon, or even more outlandishly on Mars, if there is no return on investments. Maybe solar power satellites and then mining

Seeing numbers.

2020-06-22 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-insight-awareness.html So much for the arithmetical theory of awareness.  :-) Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: Smarter monkeys through Genetic Engineering?

2020-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 20 Jun 2020, at 22:26, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Friday, June 19, 2020 at 7:01:35 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > On 6/19/2020 9:35 AM, John Clark wrote: >> A gene called "ARHGAP11B" that is found in humans and in no other animal has >> long been thought to be at least partially

Re: Smarter monkeys through Genetic Engineering?

2020-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 20 Jun 2020, at 02:01, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 6/19/2020 9:35 AM, John Clark wrote: >> A gene called "ARHGAP11B" that is found in humans and in no other animal has >> long been thought to be at least partially responsible for humans having an >>