Progress in genetic engineering, cloning and medical technologies may once make it possible for us to change the DNA of our body's cells. This could improve our lives more than we imagine.
A "gene theraphy" could cure hereditary/genetic diseases or defects, make us more resistent, and even immune to diseases, change our skin, eyes or hair pigmentation, make us naturally slimmer or more muscular, etc. In short, everything we can hope for with genetic engineering but on grow-up people, not cells or foetuses.
Of course, such a therapy could not affect intelligence, nor the way we feel (sensitivity), because neurons (nerve cells) cannot regenerate themselves after birth. So, there is no way to become more intelligent, change one's memory, feelings, emotions, etc. It thus assures that our preception of the "self" ("I feel that I am me and not you") would not change, as this perception is based on our nervous system (the only part of our body which cells do not change since birth).
My question is, would you try such a gene therapy if there was no risk ?
A "gene theraphy" could cure hereditary/genetic diseases or defects, make us more resistent, and even immune to diseases, change our skin, eyes or hair pigmentation, make us naturally slimmer or more muscular, etc. In short, everything we can hope for with genetic engineering but on grow-up people, not cells or foetuses.
Of course, such a therapy could not affect intelligence, nor the way we feel (sensitivity), because neurons (nerve cells) cannot regenerate themselves after birth. So, there is no way to become more intelligent, change one's memory, feelings, emotions, etc. It thus assures that our preception of the "self" ("I feel that I am me and not you") would not change, as this perception is based on our nervous system (the only part of our body which cells do not change since birth).
My question is, would you try such a gene therapy if there was no risk ?