Posted by Suan Yong on March 12, 1998 at 08:28:06:
In Reply to: Re: To Live Forever -- Cloning and the Hero posted by John Robinson on March 11, 1998 at 22:32:53:
>Assume that I can do something that prevents the "new" bodies brain
>from developing... What are the ethics if I take a heart or 2 lungs
>or whatever from my "spare" body?
The question (IMO) boils down to whether we have a "soul" (for lack
of a better word), and whether a `brainless' clone would still have
a "soul", and `deserve' to live... (for that matter, do animals have
a soul? how about a fetus?) I think science's next big goal should
be to discover what (if anything) this "soul" is that makes us tick.
Suan