Re: Amusing anti-cloning arguments

Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:05:17 -0800

Max More writes:
>If smart people like Pizulli and the other intellectuals who have written
>in opposition to cloning become so irrational when dealing with an issue
>like human cloning, we'd better watch out for their response when we're
>talking about altering human nature and making technological changes far
>more interesting and far-reaching that copying a person's genes.

Something about this sort of topic seems to trigger cognitive reactions which bypass mental modules capable of more abstract critical analysis. I think it is very important for us to understand this cognitive process in more detail.

Robin Hanson
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