PHIL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reprogenetics, Genetic Distance

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2001
• Professor: Elisabeta Sarca

Document Summary

Lee m silver: 300 years into the future: With genetic engineering advancing over the years there will eventually be a divide in populations: Between those who are genetically enhanced (the genrich) and those who are not. Genes that were created in the laboratory and did not exist within the human species until twenty-first century reproductive geneticists began to put them there. Genetically enhanced athletes: "after three hundred years of selection and enhancement, these. Genrich individuals all have athletic skills that are clearly nonhuman in the traditional sense. It would be impossible for any natural to compete. " The genrich scientist: the present-day genrich scientist has accumulated a set of particular synthetic genes that work together with his natural heritage to produce an enhanced scientific mind. With the passage of time, the genetic distance between naturals and the genrich has become greater and greater, and now there is little movement up from the natural to genrich class.