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I feel we’ve already entered into sensitive territory by aborting it.
Are they going to call him Caesar?
This is either going 28 Days Later or Planet of the Apes.
This research is as terrific as it is terrifying. These are some terrific insights into the evolution of intelligence. I doubt that it was one gene alone that drove the whole thing, but as the article mentions, the ethical dilemmas already arise, and it's easy to see how scientifically valuable it would be to study the impact of the gene further by allowing the transgenic animals to be born. The ethical dilemmas cut…
Isn’t that literally the plot of the Planet of the Apes remake?
"To let them come to be born, in my opinion, would have been irresponsible as a first step," emphasis on the "as a first step"
Did anyone else think about "Planet of the Apes" after reading this?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, I was talking to a fruit fly yesterday... Wait no, that’s not accurate because while larger brains don’t inherently equate to more intelligence, there is a minimum size for any given level of intelligence. That said, this wasn’t a test of intelligence, just how cells grow in response to specific genetic alterations.
I didn’t realize that was scientific consensus. So that would imply that brains under a certain size are incapable of higher levels of intelligence? I don’t think that’s right... I thought the consensus was that brain size has no strong correlation with intelligence at all. That makes sense considering how neurons work, the connections they form seem like they would be more causal.