[RightWhale]

The article would be interesting. However, I do not believe we should implement such a program. Human cloning is another technology we should avoid. The reason is threefold. One, we are finite beings and should attempt only finite things. Two, we will each become spiritual beings soon enough in the natural course of events: there is no need to rush these things. Three, we already have a substantial noosphere in operation and being expanded daily.

[betty boop]

I do not believe we should implement such a program.

Nobody's talking about "implementing programs" here, RW.

Notwithstanding, I think we humans are all already "spiritual beings." And so I agree human cloning is most likely a "bad idea" .... [For it has no principle or method whereby it can integrate spiritual phenomena into the realm of the immediately observable facts of nature.]

Among other things, Grandpierre's article places in stark relief the fundamental, unavoidable difference that subsists between a machine and a living organism.

A person could read this paper and disagree with its conclusions -- yet still be grateful for the amazing insights into seemingly routine events in experienced human thought that accrue along the way....