Genetic modification, play to be God with artificial life
First we define what we are referring to when we talk about life, from the biological point of view it is said that living beings are composed of cells that have a complex and organized structure, they grow, they maintain homeostasis, they reproduce, they have the relationship capacity referring to us To their adaptation in the environment in which they are found, they have irritability, since they respond to external stimuli, they have metabolism and die. (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 2002)
With this brief description we give way to displaying the broad theme of how scientists today think with these bases to create from their laboratories organisms with genetic improvements and ultra developed intelligence, in order to question ourselves if what is being done is a step He did the development of humanity or a challenge to our divine creator trying that we are also able to create life.
The great scientist who gave way to this genetic revolution was Craig Vent with the creation of the artificial cell (Vinter, 2014) with which, over the years, it has been used to implement it in new robotic mechanisms and even introduce them into embryos humans.
One of the most popular cases of cell manipulation was the creation of HIV immunity in twins in a fetal state, carriers of this virus, by Chinese scientist He Jiankui (2019) from a simple genetic edition technique called Crispr ( 2012) which remains in a state of development, and, that is why multiple criticisms fall on He, since it is experiencing with humans and putting at risk (in case the modification is a door to new diseases) to a whole generation.
Something similar occurs with the development of artificial life which is moving very quickly, now we can mention the Android Sophia that was created by David Hanson (Hanson, 2015) and has the ability to follow a person’s gaze , respond to conversations of complex topics and can even feel empathy and also imitate emotions.
As we can see they are small steps, but with the speed that are done it is more than possible to expect a not so distant future in which we live with androids and genetically modified humans, but is this bad or is good? Here are both points.
The positive side in genetic modifications is to wait To science. With artificial intelligence we would be provided with many tasks in different fields, we would have a more comfortable life and we could even begin the exploration of the depths of our ocean and the universe, since there would be no risk if any mission fails, since it would only be manned By androids.
On the negative side, let’s raise the following: if you had a company and you have to hire between an employee who is genetically modified and there?, With this we realized that we would be dividing the human species into two races and generate discrimination and hate between them, since there will always be a rivalry to demonstrate which one is better, moreover, it would also be included in this competition to the androids, since they are capable of performing any work that is given to them and you would only have to spend on repair when damage is present.
As there are always pros and cons in which already knowing it in advance we could avoid.
So are we challenging our creator for wanting to modify and become practically perfect and also create artificial intelligence that with experience is gaining own awareness? Let us think well the question we have just read, if the genetic modification becomes possible, many cases will be seen in which people begin to modify their babies so that they meet certain beauty standards and if so, we would be rejecting the appearance with which Our creator sent us, a complete breed breaking the established norms.
Rescuing Alan Turing’s phrase: ‘Thinking is a function of man’s immortal soul. God has granted an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to other animals or machines. Therefore, no animal or machine can think ‘(Turing, 1950) we could say that we are given a soul to this artificial life, since as these were mentioned before if they are able to take their own actions and even reach Inquire that they could have feelings which will make them become their own aware And this would already represent a threat to humanity (2014).
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