Comments on: Monkeys With Human Brains?

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:32:48 +0000

HAHA. I love the fact that it says “may accidentally produce”… I’m pretty sure that the science community is secretly thinking “you mean, hopefully… because that’s why we were injecting them with human brain cells, wasn’t it, guys?”

And I agree with Alistair, It should be interesting when they start running for office.

By: james

james — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:43:49 +0000

Dude… it’s DEVO come to life!

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:23:22 +0000

I added in the link. Sorry!

By: Chiggles

Chiggles — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:15:29 +0000

From Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things:
“Anthropologists have even reported seeing great apes dance in lines and circles [Damon, 1957:1]”
This and the ability to make/use basic tools and learn some sign language, I think is display enough of intelligence.
Where may I ask is the link to the full story? Where I reside (Madison, WI) there is a growing interest in what has been/is being done to primates, such as a talk I missed last night titled “UW Primate Vivisectors A to Z” to the Primate Research Museum. I would not be surprised if this was being done in my city.

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:51:39 +0000

we have enough shit flinging from politics and science and religion to warrant engineering competition. besides science wont have an ethical problem. oppenhiemer proved that.and the pope? ethical vacuum cleaner.

By: Jerky

Jerky — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:52:28 +0000

Hey, why NOT give monkeys a little more “oomp!” in the brains department? We might end up learning a little something about ourselves, like the scientific basis for our own species’ ongoing love affair with excreta-based humor.

By: Fell

Fell — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:24:12 +0000

Everyone take a breath for a moment and just thinkâ€¦

Who doesn’t want a friendly monkey to drink beers and play GTA with?!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:21:47 +0000

Apparently these scientists never saw ‘Planet of the Apes’.

By: Inder

Inder — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:04:28 +0000

Just science? Sometimes I think our species is just one big ethical nightmare, lol. This ties into some of your earlier posts on consciousness — if, in fact, you could produce a monkey with a human brain, I wonder what type of consciousness it might have. I would like to think that nature would just end its misery soon after its birth, but who knows.