The Search for Extra Trust Intelligence

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We end up with these metaphors trying to the frame what's going on well i think your previous discussions of consciousness explain the hard problem of course and then we reach for metaphors to cut. It's like this is like that maybe it's just a really really weird thing and it's not like anything elseYeah i mean the same but same goes for physics obviously because they you know all learned that uh... the atom was the set of billiard balls and that the electron is like a little satellite going around, he says.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.