Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
I find it hard to describe how I feel about this.<p>These scientists essentially created what may have been a new species, that perhaps would have had similar sentience to us and had them terminated after 100 days.<p>The cat's out of the bag with this research so to speak now. Someone's bound to do this again<p>The part about whether they should have been born or not, which was the ethical thing is what tears at me.<p>Is it right to create something that may be similar to us and then not even give it a chance to live?<p>I mean whether creating such a being is right or not in general i'm sure is up for debate.<p>I'm not religious, but if we're going to play god, shouldn't we take responsibility for the results of our creation?<p>I dunno, I find a lot of genetic engineering research to be a bit unsettling. We're playing with things we barely understand that could have consequences we can't even imagine.<p>Nature took a long long time to get to this point where life has come to a sort of balance. Assuming we can go in and just start blindly messing around and do better seems like an extreme level of arrogance that's going to end up blowing up in our faces.<p>Our track record for messing around with the fundamental fabric of reality and life isn't so good. We've ended up with some pretty terrifying things.