Just a quick thought after reading Searle's "Minds, Brains, and Programs"...

Link: "Minds, Brains, and Programs" by John Searle


I believe that human beings have the potential to create anything, but there are lines that we should never cross:

1) the cloning of actual human beings
2) making machines that are so biological and "intentional" that even Searle would call it a "thinking" thing.

I think these two things would create ethical and moral problems so huge that they would completely alter our society for the worse.

A formal afterthought is coming up...Searle's paper is absolutely fantastic not because I agree or disagree with it but because it brought up so many contradicting ideas in me that it led me to a whole new level of utter confusion as to what my beliefs are. Absolutely fantastic read especially watching Battlestar Galactica and Blade Runner.