Stem research. Type it into google and you will suddenly be overwhelmed with one of the most controversial topics around. With religious, conservative and pro-life groups fighting tooth and nail to keep the research down while medical researches, scientists and corporations see unlimited potential. Not hard to imagine something like this blowing out of control at any moment.
How does this relate? I'll lay it out. Stem research and neurogenesis can, in theory (and limited practise), regrow dead brain matter. But there is a fact everyone is too sadly aware of, everyone dies of cardiac arrest, when the blood no longer gets to the brain. So the moment a person is actually dead is the moment the brain shuts down and stops working. Lose of higher brain functions happens within moments. Lose of lower brain functions happens within minutes of this "true death." But there are labs looking in reanimation research and long life. These labs and research facilities exist all over the world but the amount of them in the United States is staggering.
However, there is a problem with stem cell research and neurogenesis, it only rebuilds the stem not the cortex. The stem is what controls lower brain functions: feeding, killing, mating, using the senses, the animal instincts. It does not control the things that make a person what we are, the soul if you will, but even if you won't: it doesn't control the high brain functions like emotions, personality, empathy, self-control, the humanity of man.
Seeing it yet? A man who doesn't make decisions, or if he does they are only based on what his body tells him he needs. Zombies? No. Soldiers? Maybe. Slaves? Definitely. How long until someone needs a mindless work force? Well the irony of that of course is North American governments already have one.
However, there is a problem with stem cell research and neurogenesis, it only rebuilds the stem not the cortex. The stem is what controls lower brain functions: feeding, killing, mating, using the senses, the animal instincts. It does not control the things that make a person what we are, the soul if you will, but even if you won't: it doesn't control the high brain functions like emotions, personality, empathy, self-control, the humanity of man.
Seeing it yet? A man who doesn't make decisions, or if he does they are only based on what his body tells him he needs. Zombies? No. Soldiers? Maybe. Slaves? Definitely. How long until someone needs a mindless work force? Well the irony of that of course is North American governments already have one.
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