What is Human responsibility for genetic engineering?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Human responsibility for the artificial life-forms is absolute. We must consider the things, what we are creating.  When we are making genetic experiments like transferring the genomes between the species, we must consider that those life forms would not enter the natural environment, and this is the thing, what we normally forget. When we are creating the corn, what is resistant for some specific poison or chemical, we are creating the thing, what is very dangerous in the wrong hand. In the first case, we can destroy other corn by using the agricultural chemicals, and then our own corn would be the only thing, what is left behind.  If we are honest, we can use the same methodology for creating human, who is resistant for the neurotoxins like nerve gas in a very simple way.

We can connect the genome, what makes the Mongoose resistant for the poison of Mamba to our own genomes. This would give the ability to create the soldiers, who are resistant against nerve gasses. But in some cases, we would create something, what is more interesting, and at the same time terrible vision in our mind. If we would create the artificial life form, what is intelligent, how would we deal with that thing? Are we trying to communicate with it?

Or are we taking that life form in our schools and other places? When we are thinking about the films like "The Species", we must say, that maybe we are not going to do things like in that film. When we are thinking cases, where genomes are connected to some other species, we would not connect it to the genomes of the human. If we would do that, we might create the artificial life form, what is intelligent. And that is the thing, what is the most dangerous situation, what we can imagine.

If that fife form is hostile, we might be in very big trouble. In fact, the problem in the genome experiments is that the unknown genetic code would cause unexpected things in the brains of that organism. The neurons of that animal, what is targeted for genome transfer would maybe start to make more synopsis than in the normal brains. And if our brains would have a similar network of neurons, what bugs have, we might face the thing, that we would not need brains, what are bigger than beans.

That kind of unexpected mutation would cause the situation, where some animal will become intelligent. And that is the thing, what would cause the terrible situation. If we would use viruses for making the duplicate sequence of the part of DNA, what makes us intelligent, and this virus would be released to nature, that would make things like intelligent Lions, that might be extremely dangerous for humans. That thing should become in the mind when we are making things like genome therapy because those viruses can cause unexpected mutations for animals. And some of those mutations are very unwilling things.