PREFACE
1. INTRODUCTION
2. SCIENCE TODAY
The De-centering Process
The Psychology of Large Numbers
3. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
DNA
Proteins
Genomes
The Stadium-Size Cell
Evolution
Genome Sequencing
Beyond Genome Sequencing
Biotechnology
Genomes as Computer Programs
4. IN VITRO BABIES
What Happens to Sex?
5. HUMAN CLONING
Cloning
Human Cloning Taboo
Cloning and Sexual Reproduction
Cloning and "Intelligence"
Cloning and Life and Death
Cloning and Identity
6. SIAMESE TWINS
7. MANIPULATING DNA
The Extended Jurassic Park
DNA Morphing
Warping and Reversing Time
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8. COMPUTERS
Computations
Communications: the Internet
Artificial Life
9. THE LAST FRONTIER: THE BRAIN
Why is Pain Painful?
The Limits and Expansion of Intelligence
Sizing the Self Up
Immortality Revisited
The Distance Between Selves
Machine Learning and Reverse Engineering the Brain
The New Music
The Shattered Self
10. ETHICS AND WHAT CAN GO WRONG
Ethical Foundations
Contemporary Issues: Cloning, Embryonic Cells, and Gene Therapy
What Can Go Wrong
11. THE INFORMATION SPACE
12. CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
General References
Technical References
FIGURES
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