Transcript Design Part 2. PPT

Re-Designing Humans
Part Two
If Humans were built to Last
Joseph M. Rosen, M.D.
April 17th , 2003
Engineering 005
Summary of the Course:
Re-designing Humans
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Form and Function (Sci Am March 2001)
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Technologies – surgery, robotics, virtual
reality and genetic engineering
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Applications – walking, senses and
internal organs and outward appearance
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Re-Design vs. Re-Evolution – changing
future generations – Genes for Beauty
Genotype is a function of the human genome:
Critical discovery April 25,1953
DNA is the template for RNA to make proteins:
human genome = DNA
Human transformation – re-designing humans:
Phenotype definition:
Nature and Nurture in Humans
Phenotype is the expression of nature
and nuture in a species or individual
Nature is what we inherit from
generation to generation - genotype
Nuture is our expression of civilization,
culture, clothes, environment,surgery
Limitations of surgery, genome and robotics:
Lamarck and Nanosurgery:
Operating on the Germline
Surgery on the
genotype to alter
form and function
Recent ability to make major changes in evolution:
DNA and the Human Genome
Genetic engineering
could allow surgery
to alter future
generations
This would dramatically
alter choices for
human evolution in
both form and
function
Nature’s information code for life’s expression:
Nanosurgery to change future
generations by human choice
Each cell has the
potential to clone
an entire person
Hidden genes to
express Wings,
fins and other
parts ?
Wings
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Lets Walk first
before we Fly
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“ flying squirrel”
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Built to Last
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Lets ‘not’ age
Anti-Aging:
Re-designing Humans
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Human purpose –
The Selfish Gene
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100 Years Young
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Person Designed
for a Healthy Old
Age
Mike McKenna thesis work –first virtual humans :
How do we walk – making
avatar – virtual creatures
Mike McKenna thesis work –first virtual humans :
Using Virtual Reality to teach
us about Walking so we can
Last
If Humans were built to last:
Flaws and Fixes
If Humans were built to last:
List of Flaws – Walk this Way
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Bioweapons can
effect the will of
the nation through
terror and the
economy
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blowback risk to
the enemy
If Humans were built to last:
List of Fixes – Walk this Way
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Bioweapons can
effect the will of
the nation
through terror
and the economy
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BW have a
potentially unique
outcome –can
change policy and
military strategy
Re-Designing Humans
Other Systems
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What other systems need to be modified to remain young
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Getting A Head
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Vision
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Hearing
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Trachea
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Esophagus
Get a Plumber
Male
Female
If Humans were built to last:
Flaws and Fixes-Plan a Head
If Humans were built to last:
Call a Plumber - Male
If Humans were built to last:
Call a Plumber - Female
Deformities versus Beauty:
Re-Think role of Surgery
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Cosmetics –
Operating on Normal
people to make them
‘beautiful’
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Curing Aging,
Fatness, Culture
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Some Cultures
change their
phenotype (shape)
Plastic surgery to alter the human form - skin:
Surgical Recontruction for
deformities is not Cosmetic
Human transformation – re-designing humans:
Phenotype alteration through
the clothes we wear
Human transformation – re-designing humans:
Phenotype alteration through
the masks and modifications
Human transformation – re-designing humans:
Phenotype alteration through
scarification and modification
Cosmetic Surgery Next