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- Book Title
- The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution
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- ISBN
- 9780262523349
- Subject Area
- Science, Medical
- Publication Name
- Shattered Self : the End of Natural Evolution
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Subject
- Ethics, Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 15 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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An exploration of the far-reaching scientific and social changes made possible by advances in molecular biotechnology. Throughout history, we have selected and manipulated the genomes of plants, animals, and even ourselves. Until now, however, such control could be exerted only at the level of the entire organism. Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3.5 billion years. These advances open new possibilities for medicine, biotechnology, and society as a whole. We already have in vitro fertilization and animal cloning; in the future human cloning and the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, among other capabilities, may be routine. At the same time, we are developing machines that will surpass the human brain in raw computing power and building an interconnected world of information-processing devices that makes science fiction pale in comparison. In this book Baldi explores what it is about these phenomena that makes us so uneasy--the shattering of the human self as we know it. Through evolution our brains have been wired to provide us with an inner sense of self, a feeling that each of us is a unique individual delimited by precise boundaries. We have also been wired to reproduce ourselves in a certain way. Baldi argues that this self-centered view of the world is scientifically wrong. Its past success lies in its being an adequate model during our evolutionary bootstrapping: a world without molecular biotechnology, human cloning, and the Internet. Eventually we must come to terms with the fact that genomes, computations, and mind are fluid, continuous entities, in both space and time. The boundary between the self and the world has begun to blur and ultimately may evaporate entirely. Baldi offers not predictions but an open-eyed exploration of our current state of knowledge and the possibilities that lie ahead.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262523345
ISBN-13
9780262523349
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Publication Name
Shattered Self : the End of Natural Evolution
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Ethics, Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Additional Product Features
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What we will become remains intriguing and ominous, making this probing book a valuable contribution to thinking about our future., What we will become remains intriguing and ominous, making this probing book avaluable contribution to thinking about our future., "What we will become remains intriguing and ominous, making this probing book a valuable contribution to thinking about our future." Steven R. Quartz American Scientist
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2002
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Dewey Decimal
599.93
Dewey Edition
21
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Yes
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