Funny or scary? - you be the judge
Stanford law professor Hank Greely, who chaired an informal ethics committee, said the committee recommended closely monitoring mice behavior and immediately killing any mice that display human-like behavior!
Think I am joking?
- I am not, although you need to read this:
http://www.livescience.com/ap_050430_human_animal.html
to get the context in which it was said...
- but here is what I want to know: what would be considered a "human-like behavior" in a mouse?
Having sex?
Having wars?
Creating art?
Building temples?
Having elections in which the the one who gets to be president did not receive a majority of the votes?
Maybe mice are already doing all ov thee above!
- How do we know they are not?
And if they did start rapping on the glass while shouting "let me out of this cage!" would it be "ethical" to kill them at that point?
I don't want to sound like a Luddite, but what are we going to be gaining by putting human brain tissue into the skull of a mouse? I thought we had learned that doing tests on non-humans (aka "animals") did not produce results which were useful to humans since human biology is different than non-humans.
Think I am joking?
- I am not, although you need to read this:
http://www.livescience.com/ap_050430_human_animal.html
to get the context in which it was said...
- but here is what I want to know: what would be considered a "human-like behavior" in a mouse?
Having sex?
Having wars?
Creating art?
Building temples?
Having elections in which the the one who gets to be president did not receive a majority of the votes?
Maybe mice are already doing all ov thee above!
- How do we know they are not?
And if they did start rapping on the glass while shouting "let me out of this cage!" would it be "ethical" to kill them at that point?
I don't want to sound like a Luddite, but what are we going to be gaining by putting human brain tissue into the skull of a mouse? I thought we had learned that doing tests on non-humans (aka "animals") did not produce results which were useful to humans since human biology is different than non-humans.