From: Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 26 1998 - 13:05:17 MST
Max More writes:
>If smart people like Pizulli and the other intellectuals who have written
>in opposition to cloning become so irrational when dealing with an issue
>like human cloning, we'd better watch out for their response when we're
>talking about altering human nature and making technological changes far
>more interesting and far-reaching that copying a person's genes.
Something about this sort of topic seems to trigger cognitive
reactions which bypass mental modules capable of more abstract critical
analysis. I think it is very important for us to understand this
cognitive process in more detail.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
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