genes, germs and glia

[reckless_rex]

"Some complain that e-mail is impersonal -- that your contact with me, during the e-mail phase of our relationship, was mediated by wires and screens and cables. Some would say that's not as good as conversing face-to-face. And yet our seeing of things is always mediated by corneas, retinas, optic nerves, and some neural machinery that takes the

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[airstrip]

I might comment later, once I've gathered some thoughts, on a GUT of ethics.

[gaelicone7]

Extending the moral sense

Something I'm interested in too, but this is a very tricky and slightly paradoxical subject. Anyway, I'm excited about an interesting book coming out about this and other things (featuring Robin Hanson): How Can Human Nature be Ethically Improved?, ed. Julian Savulescu, Oxford University Press, to appear 2007.

A GUT of rights

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