Gavin in Va Beach Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Artifical womb story In 2002 Hung-Ching Liu, at Cornell University, in the United States, announced that her team had successfully grown a sample of cells from the lining of a human uterus and had used tissue engineering technologies to shape them like a womb. When a fertilised human egg was introduced into the womb, it implanted into the uterus wall as it would in a natural pregnancy. The experiment was ceased at six days’ gestation, because of legal limits on human embryo experimentation. Japanese scientists brought goat foetuses to full term using so-called “uterine tanks” after removing them mid-pregancy from their mother’s womb. In further womb research by Dr Liu’s team, mouse embryos were grown nearly to term in artificial wombs but, as in the Japanese experiments, the newborn animals did not survive. There is a danger too that some women who want babies but cannot face pregnancy or childbirth could take advantage of the artificial wombs — one step beyond being “too posh to push”. If they see their babies growing in a tank, would they bond with their newborns, or view them as commodities? Dr Ashcroft said: “Is creating children with artificial wombs having children at all, or is it a kind of manufacturing of children? It is deeply dangerous.” The issue will add fresh fuel to the abortion debate. The ramifications of this potential technology are vast and at the same time both great and terrible. A lot of us may actually see this in our lifetime. It's hard to wrap my mind around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Artifical womb storyThe ramifications of this potential technology are vast and at the same time both great and terrible. A lot of us may actually see this in our lifetime. It's hard to wrap my mind around... 422573[/snapback] And this technology is small potatoes. Wait until the first upload of human consciousness. Or the first computer that becomes self-aware. Do you give the same rights to an intelligent machine that you would a human being? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Do you give the same rights to an intelligent machine that you would a human being? 423922[/snapback] Like the machinosexual right to marriage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 And this technology is small potatoes. Wait until the first upload of human consciousness. Or the first computer that becomes self-aware. Do you give the same rights to an intelligent machine that you would a human being? 423922[/snapback] We give a lot of them to humans that aren't self aware, why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 We give a lot of them to humans that aren't self aware, why not? 424155[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Wait until the first upload of human consciousness. 423922[/snapback] I'm still waiting for the first human consciousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Gant Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I'm still waiting for the first human consciousness. 424189[/snapback] I think I found it! No, wait............. it was just some guy asking for directions, but i'll keep waiting too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I think I found it! No, wait............. it was just some guy asking for directions, but i'll keep waiting too. 424211[/snapback] And somehow, somewhere, some idiot in Indiana thinks my post was a dig at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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