http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/artificial.life.ap/index.html
2007-08-31 01:23:26 · 19 answers · asked by ? 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It should be banned totally. Scientists are trying to play God.
2007-08-31 01:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by barbwire 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Artificial life is a contrition in terms.
The human mind is not a machine. A machine can not duplicate it workings. A photograph is not the same as seeing. An email is not the same as a letter.
You can not manufacture a soul or spirit. You need that or it won't be living.
Consider a living tuna fish, lying on the deck of a boat. The moment it dies it will have the same chemical composition and components as a living fish. The only difference is that it is dead. The life force is gone.
Putting feathers in your bottom doesn't make you a chicken.
2007-08-31 08:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A golem! They are making a golem! Seriously, I liked the last sentence "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen." No, I guess not. Of course, no body ever imagined that computers would be household objects, either. Oh, well....we already have artificial intelligence; might as well have artificial life to go with it. Then the human race will be truly obsolete.
2007-08-31 08:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like trying to put Genie back in the bottle
2007-09-01 01:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by HEY boo boo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It should be banned. Humans should neither create nor destroy life, that job is God's and we shouldn't use his power for out own twisted desires.
2007-08-31 08:28:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
generic people....that's kinda creepy, people playing God......so sad, I'm not for it!âº
edit: the money that the research is costing,..it could definitely be spent on problems that already exist, why spend that money on creating more problems!âº
2007-08-31 08:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by nightmajic~♥~ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Artificial Life" isn't that kinda like an oxymoron???? What purpose would that serve? Sounds very sad to me.
2007-08-31 08:29:36 · answer #7 · answered by arrianna_vt 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
2007-09-01 13:34:54 · answer #8 · answered by tictak kat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it should be banned. life is a gift from god, not scientists.
i think they should focus more time and money on the
problems we already have, such as a cure for cancer,
diabetes and so on.
2007-08-31 20:11:49 · answer #9 · answered by Mary S 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Allow it. This technology will save lives.
They're creating simple cells, not complex, living breathing "animals".
2007-08-31 08:29:51 · answer #10 · answered by We Done Yet? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋