Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Genome Chapter Summary (8)

Chromosome 22: Free Will


"Hume's fork: Either our action are determined, in which case we are not responsible for them, or they are the result of random events, in which case we are not responsible for them."
                                                                                    Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
In this chapter Ridley focuses on discussing the relationship between freedom and that it is how someone shows determinism and ownership.  This relationships explain the reason to the fear of cloning; cloning would allow an individual's unique characteristics to be shared and those characteristics would no longer be unique.  Therefore, Ridley concludes by stating "Everybody has a unique and different, endogenous nature. A self."  

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