Blade Runner just around the corner

Tyrell Corporation: more human than human

Blade Runner is a 1982 film based on the novel "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?" by Philip K. Dick; it discusses about artificial human (completely built by man) of biological consciousness caught over the years. This artificial human with better performance than natural ones, had become a hazard by its creators and that they had been banned on Earth and they had an expiration date of four years (when they died). I don’t explain the plot but the film debates about what is or what it means living, it personalized by creatures built as our image and likeness, and at same time what rights has the creator on creatures created by It (doesn’t matter human or God).

Blade Runner is a milestone for fans of the genre (science fiction). In the era of digital special effects and virtual reality it seem outdate, but the music of Vangelis, darkness and minimal convincing special effects, gives sufficient consistence it despite pass of years. But what makes it more current the its premonition, when DNA (1969)  was discovered no more time before and its power anybody can imagine, film show us the industrial manufacture of artificial living beings, which has already been achieved "NYU scientists creation of artificial self-replication process holds promise for novel production of new materials (October 12, 2011)”. I could also talk about the climate that describes, the overpopulation and the peope on depression; but depressive environment is due to the plot located in marginal sites of the society of 2019 (we will arrive in no more days) but film insinuate that is extends to all humanity (you see ads promotions extraterrestrial colonies to escape the depressing Earth).

To create life is the ultimate taboo. We found all sorts of myths and punishment that we may suffer from this transgression (i.e. Frankenstein). All current monotheistic religions which have the same God as creator of everything are against. Since the emergence of genetic manipulation have appeared all kinds of moral and ethical committees where it decides what we can do and can’t, something really amazing when they are less about weapons or slavery; two evils that lead behind much real suffering. Study is forbidding, and the little was done is constantly reviewed and censored, when the arrival of genetics has been the most important contribution to medicine.

This persecution hides an important philosophical dilemma but moral as we would believe. A dilemma that directly attacks the waterline of any religion: the faith. Believing doesn’t need testing, but when it appears a contra prove we have a problem. Creationists reach until ridiculous levels of obstinacy in hold the literately which shame other believers, but when the book where are the base your belief has a small fissure, we must cover; for example if we say that at time when book was writing, thing that causes the discrepancy they didn’t know and this is just a metaphor, Why could all the book be a metaphor? And What must believe?. It may seem ridiculous that in the twentieth century have majority democratic enough to declare the validity of creation and to ban evolution (it is supposed to be a lie) (small example: Creationist Lawmakers Derail Third Grader's Campaign To Honor The Woolly Mammoth); but if we can question the validity of a paragraph can question the whole book and undoubtedly the main: to believe that God is real. To create life or even to create humans makes doubts about many things as whom we are, but it ruled out the possibility of immortal soul and if humans are the culmination of the work of God on the Earth.

But in reality we have created life? the question is not trivial. What we understand for life? simply we define life and to live as opposed to what isn’t, and thus we have problems. We know that living beings transcend beyond their physical boundaries (i.e. skin). The complexity of every living being and its interaction with the surrounding makes a living being or an entire species is completely unfeasible without the rest around it. However what is the difference between what we synthesize the entire DNA molecule that nature does naturally; and in any case we generate are natural mutations of this nature, which does not differ too much from replication errors, poor diet or natural radiation. In "To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs" I expose the impossibility emulation of nature by humans and their survival without it; in this direction life is not something that has a living organism, but rather a system which is evolving where we are only one element.

To have achieved a body is a great achievement. Our knowledge in this field opens great opportunities to both health and nutrition. However it’s not without risks. All living organisms will be created for all the consequences, they will be interacting with other and the same time evolves. Today one of the toughest challenges in facing both agriculture and ecology is the invasive species. These species appear suddenly changing the relation rules (dominance, predation...) between beings of that territory. This phenomenon is not inherent in human action, all species (and the first humans, we are born migrants) have invaded territories that were outside until they have found their place in it. The challenge is that these species are moving very fast on one side, and another that appears increasingly becomes an ecosystem that reach (like us, but of course without our control, we believe that nefarious results). Imagine when artificial yeast leaves the laboratory (because sooner or later you will leave it), then it will behave like any other yeast, invade, fed and reproduced without predator known which can stop it; sooner or later will appear also predators, it may exist or perhaps evolved; in time the yeast will end up being just one of many organisms in the world but nobody knows how the global ecosystem will become when the new balance will be established (it can’t pass anything or such as all animals have disappeared over one kg which we can include us).

We must be cautious when handling nature, among other things because just now discovered that Nature is more extensive, complex and unknown than we think. Research is essential to advancing burning stages but we should not burn stages as if our life depends of it, every step must be well measured, so we are sure that there will be mistakes, but we should avoid doing major damage. There will not be a divine punishment or anything like that, but that has more to do with the "Chaos Theory" and unpredictability of disturbances in the long term. Everyone likes to be God, but we must think that we do God in our image and likeness, if He exists sure that there isn’t anything to see in the image we have of Him.