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He is a little blood sucker!

Why do fictional AI machines dream about being human? Or, why do we think they do? And why do men fall in love with their female robots?

To the degree that natural means anything, it means very little ethically. Conversely, to the degree that it is understood as a normative concept, it has little to do with biology.

I think the most important lesson to be learned is that members of bioethics committees are normal human beings. By this I mean to say that they show typical human behavior when confronted with something they do not fully understand.

The transgenic mouse is a living artefact.

The term ‘nature’ is used in contrast to notions such as ‘culture’ and ‘technology’ that put humans in opposition to nature. ‘Natural’ is also used to indicate a moral quality. ‘Natural’ is usually regarded as better than ‘artificial’ (for instance in traditional aesthetics) or even ‘perverse’ (for instance, in traditional sexual morality).