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Letters
Letters
Neanderthal Resurrection • The Employment of Politics • Sore Points • Forced Cogitations? • The Ontological Argument Exists • Is Knowledge Logical? • Is Stoicism Still Relevant? • Aristotelian Ethics, Condensed
Neanderthal Resurrection
Dear Editor: The piece on de-extinction by John Kennedy Philip in Issue 170 summarised the main concerns regarding the subject; the only part it didn’t mention was AI, which may have an increasingly significant role in gene technologies. My point for reflection is this: should we not seriously consider the reestablishment of extinct hominid species first? My view is that we absolutely should – the only caveat being that we’d need to accord each member of these revived species full human rights. But once we’ve done that, we’d have a diversity unseen since the prehistoric period. It’d be very interesting for us as human beings of the 21st century. The social, artistic, and spiritual implications are likely to be profound.
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