[Wittrs] Re: Mode of Existence for Subjective Experience
- From: Rajasekhar Goteti <rgoteti@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:41:22 +0530 (IST)
Washington, May 21 (IANS) Three Indian-origin scientists are part of a team
that has for the first time created a synthetic cell, controlled by man-made
genetic instructions, which can also reproduce itself.The 24-member team
included Sanjay Vashee, Radha Krishnakumar and Prashanth P. Parmar.'We call it
the first synthetic cell,' said genomics pioneer Craig Venter, who oversaw the
project. 'These are very much real cells.'Developed at a cost of $30 million by
the researchers at J. Craig Venter Institute, the experimental one-cell
organism opens the way to manipulation of life on a previously unattainable
scale, the Wall Street Journal reported.According to experts, scientists have
been altering DNA piecemeal for many years, producing genetically engineered
plants and animals, but the ability to craft an entire organism offers a new
power over life.However, the achievement documented in the journal Science, may
stir nagging questions of ethics, law and
public safety about artificial life.'This is literally a turning point in the
relationship between man and nature,' said molecular biologist Richard Ebright
at Rutgers University who wasn't involved in the project.'It has the potential
to transform genetic engineering. The research is going to explode once you can
create designer genomes,' David Magnus, director of the Stanford University
Center for Biomedical Ethics, was quoted as saying.The new cell, a form of
bacteria, was conceived solely as a demonstration project, though several
biologists were certain that the laboratory technique used to birth it would
soon be applied to other strains of bacteria with commercial potential, the
paper said.Email
Yahoo news
sekhar
--- On Fri, 21/5/10, SWM <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: SWM <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Wittrs] Re: Mode of Existence for Subjective Experience
To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, 21 May, 2010, 5:45 PM
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joseph Polanik <jPolanik@...> wrote:
<snip>
>
> where did he advocate limiting your language to limit your world?
>
> Joe
Wittgenstein is on record, in the foreword to the Philosophical Investigations,
as saying that the author of the TLP (himself at an earlier stage of his
career) was wrong. In his later career and, especially, in the later book,
Wittgenstein went beyond the TLP and aimed to correct things he had thought
earlier about language, about the way we think about language, about the way
language works in the world, etc. -- SWM
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