EvolutionGentechnik

"Evolution by natural selection was not much about competition between species, not much about competition between groups, not even mostly about competition between individuals, but was about competition between genes using individuals and occasionally societies as their temporary disposable vehicles. Animals choose to shorten their odds of death in order to have offspring. Indeed, their bodies are designed with planned obsolescence called ageing that causes them to decay after they reach breeding age. None of this makes any sense unless you view the body as a vehicle for the genes, as a tool used by genes in their competition to perpetuate themselves."

Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Just some food for thought, not sure this really is correct, is it?

Reproductive cloning contradicts aknowledgement of biometrical properties (from face-to-face meeting, over voice up to the genetic code here) as means of identification of persons.

This has a few implications: Because the individuals can't be distinguished (in terms of cryptography: the use the same public key) the can only have one legal volition.

Because we can never know whether two clones follow the same spirit or not, the legal volition of the cloned individual can no longer be realized, it ceases to exist.

How could the situation be cleaned up? With the right of the first born the older one could "amputate" the new parts any time... Or, if we assume (believe) that they can only follow one spirit, then the cloned parts could get rid of there old skin... but only if the older part aggrees, because the cloned parts don't have their own volition. At least in the legal sense. But only the clones can decide. Never an external judge. ...I'm confused :-/

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The human face is the result of applied, natural selection. That's no question. Here is a study how to design beautyful, winning faces - or how natural selection works. ;-)

Some genome knowledge from the programmer type of people: http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ (you will find many principles interesting regarding Askemos). Read also about Adaptive Radiation

SaurierSyndrom

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/nf/0,1518,69195,00.html

http://freshmeat.net/projects/sade/

FPGA? based mutating systems: http://www.icopyright.com/3.4698?icx_id=700000014439 , http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=1455 , http://www.newsobserver.com/monday/business/Story/419010p-414835c.html

Some pointers here to be followd http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/13/0954240

smart mice produced by gen technology: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9909/01/brainy.mice/aaa

Great, it's becoming a crime to make a computer "virus", while we all know a) that only faulty operating systems are vulnerable and b) how to protect against without need for laws c) just a machine can be "hurt". Now there is an artificial virus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2122000/2122619.stm which seems to be legal, while we neither know how to protect against it nor which kind of living beeing is in danger. So what are our laws good for?

cure for aids?