{"id":2467,"date":"2022-11-10T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/?post_type=seminar&p=2467"},"modified":"2022-11-25T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:46:39","slug":"2002-consciousness-genetics-and-society%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/sv\/seminarier\/2002-consciousness-genetics-and-society%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"2002: Consciousness, Genetics and Society\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n “All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
\r\nYou have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”
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\r\nThus Spake Zarathustra
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Does scientific research exist for man, as we understand him today, or is man something that exists for research, in its endeavour to realise the new man? Friedrich Nietzsche prophesied about this a little more than a hundred years ago, but where do we stand today? Nietzsche\u2019s interpretation of Darwin\u2019s theory interestingly portends present discourse.<\/p>\n

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The claims of the new biotechnology \u2013 apprehensions aside \u2013 must be allowed to be tested and in routine democratic order be addressed, in advance, by an earnest and serious debate concerning its potential consequences. What prospects has mankind, given the blessings of science in the shape of cloning, artificial intelligence and organ banking? How do theologians, philosophers, historians and social scientists look upon this progression? What is the humanistic response to what appears to be a new and seemingly victorious paradigm?<\/p>\n

Is it due time to ask if evolutionary biology has gone too far by claiming issues that perhaps only can be addressed by philosophy and theology? Biology seems to maintain that it is essentially a matter of degree alone and not one of a kind that separates man from other animals. The resistance to the new technological advances in the field of biology and genetics likely derives from this very demotion and even qualitative deterioration in man\u2019s status, value and significance in the cosmos. In short, his ontological significance, even his very being, appears to be under attack from an apparently impersonal rational demiurge lacking all accountability: an altogether rational, free-floating, scientific reason.<\/p>\n

Yet how does the present level of progress of science look from a historical perspective? What about science\u2019s history of broken promises? On what exactly does this culture\u2019s immense optimism but also its apprehensiveness hinge? Are we the victims of a utilitarian, bordering on pedestrian, philosophy when individual suffering can be examined only in the shadow of a far greater but entirely unpredictable future? Could it be that we are facing a new battle of universals, out of which will emerge a wholly new vision of man?<\/p>\n

At the Engelsberg seminar, no answers are taken for granted and all avenues of approach are kept wide open. Yet one thing is certain: if biotechnology is able to keep its promise, then we are situated squarely in the middle of Nietzsche\u2019s prophecy. Perhaps nothing can prevent this development, but then perhaps we can try to understand it, should we perchance remain the same human beings following the future triumphs of science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n Sverre Sj\u00f6lander: Evolution of Consciousness \u2013 Some Crucial Steps and Stages <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Martin Alda: Genetics and Mood Disorders \u2013 A Lesson In Complexity <\/p>\n

\n Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University Medical School, Canada <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Evelyn Fox Keller: The Century of the Gene <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Georg Klein: Brilliant, Malingered Queen: Reflections About the New Biology <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Microbiological and Tumour Biological Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Leonard Guarente: Regulation of Ageing by Sir2 \u2013 Possible Implications for Human Health <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Panayiotis Zavos: Reproductive Cloning Mode of Human Infertility Treatment <\/p>\n

\n Professor, University of Kentucky, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Lee M Silver: Cloning, Genetic Engineering and the Future of Human Kind <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Princeton University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Johnjoe McFadden: The Brain\u2019s Electromagnetic Information Field = Consciousness <\/p>\n

\n Professor, University of Surrey, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Hilary Rose: Arguments Against an Evolutionary Psychology <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Sociology, City University, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Max More: The New Enlightenment vs. The New Reactionaries <\/p>\n

\n PhD, Extropy Institute, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Steven Rose: Escaping Evolutionary Psychology <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Biology, the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Wright: Does Evolution Have a Spiritual and Moral Dimension? <\/p>\n

\n Author, New Jersey, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Mary Midgley: The Many Maps Model <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Erwin Bischofberger: A Humanistic Response to the Challenges of Genetics <\/p>\n

\n Professor, LIME, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Raja Ramanna: Moksha \u2013 A Critique <\/p>\n

\n Dr, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Luke Anderson: Colonising the Seed \u2013 Genetic Engineering and the Patenting of Life <\/p>\n

\n Author, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Richard Heinberg: Are Democracy and Genetic Engineering Compatible? <\/p>\n

\n New College of California, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Kenan Malik: In Defence of Human Agency <\/p>\n

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