It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The world's first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night. The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics. So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'. Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.
At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points. Within a couple of generations, competing with the Chinese on an intellectual level will be like challenging Lena Dunham to a getting-naked-on-TV contest.
After some elementary math training following the accident, JP also experienced automatic visual imagery in response to certain mathematical formulas.
A friend of mine, a psychologist, brought this to my attention. Before the incident JP's two main interests were women and partying. Now his main passions are mathematics and drawing. In terms of more explicit personality traits, it appears that JP went from extroverted to introverted, from easy-going to neurotic, from careless to high achiever and from flaky to serious.
“We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but it’s not isolated to one specific area of the brain,” said Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology in the School of Health Professions. “Spirituality is a much more dynamic concept that uses many parts of the brain. Certain parts of the brain play more predominant roles, but they all work together to facilitate individuals’ spiritual experiences.”
Although Johnstone studied people with brain injury, previous studies of Buddhist meditators and Franciscan nuns with normal brain function have shown that people can learn to minimize the functioning of the right side of their brains to increase their spiritual connections during meditation and prayer.
Agreed. This type of science is all well and good until you end up with unbalanced, power hungry augments like in Star Trek
Originally posted by DarknStormy
Dangerous in the wrong hands, mark my words.
China may find itself in a predicament if it follows through with this plan. There are many forms of intelligence......artistic, spiritual, kiinesthetic, verbal, mathematical, scientific, etc. etc. A society comprised of only intellectuals will be unbalanced in the other areas. Just my two cents.
After some elementary math training following the accident, JP also experienced automatic visual imagery in response to certain mathematical formulas.
A friend of mine, a psychologist, brought this to my attention. Before the incident JP's two main interests were women and partying. Now his main passions are mathematics and drawing. In terms of more explicit personality traits, it appears that JP went from extroverted to introverted, from easy-going to neurotic, from careless to high achiever and from flaky to serious.
Originally posted by dominicus
You mean just like Guns are? Something which is inherently neutral in itself, will always be dangerous in the wrong hands, just like the same rock that can be used to skip across a pond, can also be used to bash a person's head in.
Originally posted by littled16
reply to post by dominicus
You can handpick DNA from whoever you like to try to create super babies- it doesn't mean you will get them. Mother Nature has ideas of her own. Geniuses marry and sometimes give birth to morons, perfect physical specimens give birth naturally chubby kids who never develop interests in physical activities. People with 20/20 vision have blind children and the most artistically inclined folks have kids who couldn't draw a recognizable stick figure. I'd love to see what becomes of these kids in 20-30 years. My guess would be that many do not turn out as expected.