For some reason, books don't talk about how humans are just like DNA though. But the logical extension of those technologies is to design and build biological organisms.
Obviously, if that ever happens, humans will say that humans are like those organisms.
But then someone will remember the quote. And because the quote has been true in the past, and humans were nothing like clockwork, steam engines, or computers, then, by extension, humans are also not like biological organisms.
Which is nonsense, unless you assume that humans contain something metaphysical and unreproducible.
If not, then you have to agree that at some point the distinction will blur. But at which point?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171941/
For some reason, books don't talk about how humans are just like DNA though. But the logical extension of those technologies is to design and build biological organisms.
Obviously, if that ever happens, humans will say that humans are like those organisms.
But then someone will remember the quote. And because the quote has been true in the past, and humans were nothing like clockwork, steam engines, or computers, then, by extension, humans are also not like biological organisms.
Which is nonsense, unless you assume that humans contain something metaphysical and unreproducible.
If not, then you have to agree that at some point the distinction will blur. But at which point?