Wonder
what next will the unstoppable scientific advances in medicine and
surgery come up with to challenge nature. It's not novelty any more that
you can have your wrinkled face rejuvenated, alter the shape of your
eyes, nose, jaws, cheek, lips, mouth. Reshape your body, add inches
where you want them or take them off in other areas, put hair on bald
patches. even increase your height in certain cases. We are also told
that we can now not only have younger, fitter and more beautiful face
and body, but live much longer than the previous generations.
It's
also possible to substitute defected or near dead organs with healthy
ones: heart, liver, kidney, intestine, the whole of the organ or part of
it, like putting a patch on a piece of torn clothing. They can mend
broken fingers, toes and limbs or even replace them with artificial
ones, not just looking almost natural but functional.
You
can "borrow" a total stranger's sperm or egg to "make" a baby. You can
tell it's sex before it's born, and you can see it moving and kicking on
a computer screen. A widow can have a baby or babies even with sperms
of her long dead husband. And a woman in her 60's can, with some medical
help, give birth to her own biological baby. The last known case of
this was an Italian lady if I remember correctly, at the age of 67.
All
these are absolutely incredible and wonderful. But then I am not sure
at all what to think when I learned about the scientist who implanted
himself with a microchip, and one also to his wife, and they can then
feel each others', feelings and emotions.
Nor
do I feel right to read about the scientific/medical experiment carried
out in the University of Tokyo, where a research team led by Ko
Kobayakawa succeeded, through disconnecting the nasal receptor of a
mouse so that the poor mutilated little fellow can't smell danger, and
ran towards a huge cat like welcoming a friend, instead of running away
as they normally do with their inborn instinct, smelling out approaching
predictors. Mr. Kobayakawa emphasized that the experiment is not to
make the mouse an idiot not able to tell friend from foe, but to try to
understand better the complex neurones of the nervous system.
Mmm
... I just don't feel easy about that. I won't let my brain be messed
about if I could help it. But what choice has the poor little mouse got?
Tag: Brainsurgery,Science,Mouse
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