Friday, May 06, 2005

CNN News - Creating 'human-animals' for research

CNN News - Creating 'human-animals' for research:
"Particularly worrisome to some scientists are the nightmare scenarios that could arise from the mixing of brain cells: What if a human mind somehow got trapped inside a sheep's head?"

This is crazy stuff. Quite frankly my perspective is that the brain would still grow to scale with the species. In other words, the animal would probably still remain more instinctive in its nature. I can only see the human brain in an animal as giving it a better chance of understanding human communication. Otherwise the animal would likely remain rather unaware of any further ability to think. Take for instance a Parrot, they still have to be taught or be subjected to something quite regularly to pick up on whatever, whether it be some word or object. A human being stuck in an animal's body is only likely going to happen if you transplant the damn brain from a grown homosapien. I don't even believe that's currently possible either.

Via Betterhumans Newsletter