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Real anthros within our lifetime

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ANTIcarrot:

--- Quote from: Pinky on 22.03.2011, 07:25:48 ---I don't think a neutral talk on the technology would be morally questionable.
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I would love to do a talk on the ethics of personhood in a society of two or more sapient species. However the two core questions of that issue are 'what is a person?' and 'what is not a person?'. That is politically messy, with entrenched interests in several places, and that's before you get translation problems.

The problem is that you can have strong beliefs about what is a person (in which case you run head first into Godwin's Law) or you judge by appearance (in which case you run head first into Godwin's Law) or you take a scientific stance and measure personhood (in which case you run head first into Godwin's Law). Plus there's the minor issue of sexual relations...

This is a SIG I'd be happy to host, but only after talking to Cheetah about it.

ANTIcarrot:

--- Quote from: Ziggy_wolf on 21.03.2011, 23:14:13 ---Interesting topic indeed, though not verry plausable.
I imagine this would turn out like the movie Splice, wich is about the closest thing you get to this topic movie-wize anyhow.
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Then you have a limited imagination. ;) But by all means come along and I'll happily point out all the possibilities you're not considdering.

Pinky:
Hmmm you're inspiring me to do a SIG myself actually. But more on the social details on this, I'm an anthropologist so I know nothing about biology, physics and chemistry - or genetics!

Ziggy_wolf:

--- Quote from: ANTIcarrot on 22.03.2011, 18:06:41 ---
--- Quote from: Ziggy_wolf on 21.03.2011, 23:14:13 ---Interesting topic indeed, though not verry plausable.
I imagine this would turn out like the movie Splice, wich is about the closest thing you get to this topic movie-wize anyhow.
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Then you have a limited imagination. ;) But by all means come along and I'll happily point out all the possibilities you're not considdering.

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Limited imagination my tail! I`ll have you know I`m the one who invented the mocrowave pizza cracker, and coind the therm motherfluffer, so there! You may insult my fat arse good sir, but not my imagination you floppy eared carrot wolloper!
Any how, most early atempts at genetic engenering usually had many previous failures before suceeding. As was the case with creating Dolly, the first cloned sheep, a feew years ago. Anyhow I think genetic engenering and creating real anthros is a great topic, maybe whe could get some experts on the feild? And what other options? maybe we can spread the topic out a little?

Anyhow "Stan Sakai was guest of honour last year!?" (Please excuse me while I cuss loudly)

Quick question: Are there any other discussion panels/ lectures comming up, I find theese quite interesting, and it gives us somthing else to do other than buy questionable items and consume vast quanteties of alchohol.
 #p

Keidran:
I'd be very interested in that =D
But you have to build a dispenser too. Since you solve practical problems.

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