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The shattered self : the end of natural evolution / / Pierre Baldi
The shattered self : the end of natural evolution / / Pierre Baldi
Autore Baldi Pierre
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina 599.93
Soggetto topico Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Soggetto non controllato BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
ISBN 0-333-67479-0
0-262-25068-3
1-282-09981-7
0-262-26763-2
9780585388490
9786612099816
0-585-38849-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Introduction 1 -- 2 -- Science Today 7 -- The Decentering Process 9 -- The Psychology of Large Numbers 12 -- 3 -- Molecular Biology 15 -- DNA 16 -- Proteins 16 -- Genomes 17 -- The Stadium-Size Cell 22 -- Evolution 24 -- Genome Sequencing 25 -- Beyond Genome Sequencing 28 -- Biotechnology 31 -- Genomes as Computer Programs 34 -- 4 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- What Happens to Sex? 41 -- 5 -- Human Cloning 49 -- Cloning 49 -- Human Cloning Taboo 53 -- Cloning and Sexual Reproduction 55 -- Cloning and "Intelligence" 56 -- Cloning and Life and Death 61 -- Cloning and Identity 66 -- 6 -- Siamese Twins 71 -- 7 -- Manipulating DNA 79 -- The Extended Jurassic Park 79 -- DNA Morphing 85 -- Warping and Reversing Time 88 -- 8 -- Computers 91 -- Computations: Moore's Law 91 -- Communications: The Internet 94 -- Artificial Life 100 -- 9 -- The Last Frontier: The Brain 103 -- Why Is Pain Painful? 104 -- The Limits and Expansion of Intelligence 107 -- Sizing the Self Up 115 -- Immortality Revisited 119 -- The Distance between Selves-The "Organic" Approach 123 -- Machine Learning and Reverse-Engineering the Brain-The -- "Artificial" Approach 126 -- The New Music 130 -- 10 -- Ethics and What Can Go Wrong 135 -- Ethical Foundations 135 -- Contemporary Issues: Cloning, Embryonic Cells, and Gene Therapy 143 -- What Can Go Wrong 154 -- 11 -- The Information Space 161 -- Biology.com 161 -- The Information Space 166.
Altri titoli varianti End of natural evolution
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779967203321
Baldi Pierre  
Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, 2001
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
The shattered self : the end of natural evolution / / Pierre Baldi
The shattered self : the end of natural evolution / / Pierre Baldi
Autore Baldi Pierre
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina 599.93
Soggetto topico Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Soggetto non controllato BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
ISBN 0-333-67479-0
0-262-25068-3
1-282-09981-7
0-262-26763-2
9780585388490
9786612099816
0-585-38849-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Introduction 1 -- 2 -- Science Today 7 -- The Decentering Process 9 -- The Psychology of Large Numbers 12 -- 3 -- Molecular Biology 15 -- DNA 16 -- Proteins 16 -- Genomes 17 -- The Stadium-Size Cell 22 -- Evolution 24 -- Genome Sequencing 25 -- Beyond Genome Sequencing 28 -- Biotechnology 31 -- Genomes as Computer Programs 34 -- 4 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- What Happens to Sex? 41 -- 5 -- Human Cloning 49 -- Cloning 49 -- Human Cloning Taboo 53 -- Cloning and Sexual Reproduction 55 -- Cloning and "Intelligence" 56 -- Cloning and Life and Death 61 -- Cloning and Identity 66 -- 6 -- Siamese Twins 71 -- 7 -- Manipulating DNA 79 -- The Extended Jurassic Park 79 -- DNA Morphing 85 -- Warping and Reversing Time 88 -- 8 -- Computers 91 -- Computations: Moore's Law 91 -- Communications: The Internet 94 -- Artificial Life 100 -- 9 -- The Last Frontier: The Brain 103 -- Why Is Pain Painful? 104 -- The Limits and Expansion of Intelligence 107 -- Sizing the Self Up 115 -- Immortality Revisited 119 -- The Distance between Selves-The "Organic" Approach 123 -- Machine Learning and Reverse-Engineering the Brain-The -- "Artificial" Approach 126 -- The New Music 130 -- 10 -- Ethics and What Can Go Wrong 135 -- Ethical Foundations 135 -- Contemporary Issues: Cloning, Embryonic Cells, and Gene Therapy 143 -- What Can Go Wrong 154 -- 11 -- The Information Space 161 -- Biology.com 161 -- The Information Space 166.
Altri titoli varianti End of natural evolution
Record Nr. UNINA-9910812306403321
Baldi Pierre  
Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, 2001
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui